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Sulha Women's Circles Melila Hellner-Eshed If you were to look at these photographs from our gatherings over the past five weeks, you would see a diverse group of Palestinian and Israeli women meeting together by the Dead Sea for four and a half hours each week. Younger and older Women, from refugee camps and towns across the West Bank, alongside Israeli women from different communities. You would see us conversing, praying, dancing, meditating, participating in workshops, a

Last Thursday, April 30th, thousands of people filled one of Tel Aviv's largest conference centers for the third annual It's Time People's Peace Summit — and Sulha was part of it. The summit brought together hundreds of Israeli and Palestinian civil society leaders alongside more than a hundred diplomats, offering an alternative vision for life in the region.

Last Friday, the Sulha Peace Movement held one of its most beautiful gatherings yet — 110 people, roughly half Palestinian and half Israeli, coming together at the stunning Ein Fashha Nature Reserve near the Dead Sea.

Chag Pesach Sameach — Happy Passover to all who celebrate! Passover is the holiday of freedom — a time when we retell the story of liberation from oppression and recommit ourselves to the values of dignity and justice for all people. And yet, as we gather around our seder tables this year, we cannot look away from the reality facing many of our Palestinian friends and neighbors in the West Bank. Freedom — the very thing we celebrate — remains painfully out of reach for so man

Two days before the rockets returned to the sky – we met. One hundred people, Israelis and Palestinians, in Area C of the West Bank.

عربي/ עברית ⬇️ Last week was marked in many places as yet another week of grim and discouraging news. But for a group of dozens of...

By Melila Hellner-Eshed “Seek peace and pursue it” (Psalms 34:15) Rabbi Shimon ben Eleazar says: If a person sits in his place and...

Dear Sulha Friends, As the holy month of Ramadan approaches, the Palestinian communities in East Jerusalem and the West Bank continue to...

About us: The Heart Vision Association (known as Sulha) is an association that works to promote peace and reconciliation between...

Sulha: The Ancient Tradition of Peacemaking and Reconciliation In a world often divided by conflict, the ancient Arab tradition of Sulha...

The Sulha circles that we held as part of the Woodstock for Peace event were very moving. We met with about twenty Palestinians from East...

Last Friday, the Heart Vision Association - Sulha.org.il held another gathering in the series of Tribal Fire gatherings between Israelis...