Monthly Newsletter – January 2025

Dear TalkMatters Supporters What a start to the year. Bitter-sweet – Hamas has now released 7 women hostages in return for 290 Palestinian prisoners, the promise of more hostages exchanged for more prisoners, an uncertain cease-fire in Gaza with people returning...

Tech2Peace

Reflecting on 2024: A Year of Resilience, Growth, and Hope Dear Community, Friends and Supporters- Your steadfast support in 2024 has turned challenging times into opportunities for meaningful change. Through your belief in our work, we brought together 882...

Freddie Krivine Tennis Initiative

A big thank you to the Kibbutz Gan Shmuel Tennis Club and the Menashe Municipality for hosting our children from Jisr a Zarqa and Faradis for a wonderful joint Jewish-Arab tennis event! It was our second party, after hosting a similar one for pre-school Jewish-Arab...

Friends of the Arava Institute

The news of the ceasefire and hostage agreement offers relief and renewed hope for an end to the suffering of the past 15 months. The ongoing captivity of the hostages, the loss of lives and homes in Gaza, the destruction and loss of lives in Israel, and the...

Navigating Nuance

In part 4 of our Tools to Cope series, we are talking about navigating nuance: the recognition of complexity in communication. What it is: Nuance can be defined as slight differences in meaning or someone’s feelings that is not usually obvious. To understand nuance,...