Practical Challenges: A View from Bethlehem

Jul 22, 2020 | Updates | 0 comments

TalkMatters is delighted to introduce you to the Forum for Discussion of Israel and Palestine. One of the thirty grass root organisations where Palestinian and Israeli Jewish people meet and talk together.  TalkMatters is vital for the future of Israel and Palestine...

Our first Online Seminar: Women Wage Peace

Jul 16, 2020 | Updates

WEDNESDAY 5TH AUGUST 17.00 UK time, 19.00 Israel time TalkMatters is vital for the future of Israel and Palestine but also for Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations here in the UK where there is so much ignorance and confusion surrounding the realities of Israeli Jewish...

Virtual Launch Party Today as TalkMatters goes Live

Jun 30, 2020 | Updates | 0 comments

Welcome to the thirty organisations engaged in Israeli Jewish and Palestinian co-operation. Please open your hearts and minds to the important and often difficult work that they are doing. Join us regularly on the website to learn more and spread the word that...

Coronavirus lockdown – Israelis and Palestinians at the Dan Hotel, Jerusalem

Jun 11, 2020 | Updates | 0 comments

The guests arrived from many walks of life — Israeli Jews, Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel, Palestinian residents of Jerusalem, religious, secular — but all had one thing in common: They were among thousands of COVID-19 patients the Israeli military quarantined in...

Soul Mates in Peace: Rami Elhanan and Bassam Aramin

Jun 9, 2020 | Stories of the Stars, Updates | 4 comments

Palestinian Bassam Aramin, left, with Israeli friend, Rami Elhanan . Rami Elhanan is Israeli and Bassam Aramin is Palestinian.  They met two years before Bassam’s daughter Abir was killed and deepened the bond of their friendship through the tragic death of...

Join on-line seminars 2020

May 31, 2020 | Updates

To join any of our seminars To join any of our online seminars, please email us on hello@talkmatters.info to let us know you’re interested: we’ll get back to you with the Zoom invitation link and details on how to join us. Webinar archive Our programme of...

Oasis of Peace UK – All Faiths Trip Sunday 31st October-Sunday 7th November 2021

May 31, 2020 | Updates | 0 comments

Come and see Wahat al-Salam/Neve Shalom for yourself Meet the people and learn about their work All Faiths Study Tour Sunday 31st October – Sunday 7th November 2021 The Reverend Keith McNicol and Jenny Nemko (Trustees of Oasis of Peace UK) invite you to join them...

Watch Video Clip From Arava Institute at Kibbutz Ketura in Southern Israel

May 30, 2020 | Projects | 0 comments

Meet the Palestinians, Israelis and Jordanians working together to tackle climate change, water scarcity, sustainable agriculture and renewable energy.  People who are building trust and advancing cross-border co-operation in the face of the on-going conflict in...

Mohammed Amin MBE asks ‘How should British Muslims and Jews engage with Israel and Palestine?’

May 28, 2020 | Blog | 0 comments

Mohammed Amin MBE is Co-Chair of the Muslim Jewish Forum of Greater Manchester. He is writing in a personal capacity. Understandably, Britain’s Muslims and Jews generally start from different perspectives. For most British Jews, with memories of the Holocaust, and of...

The Anteater and the Jaguar by Rayek R. Rizek

May 28, 2020 | Book Review | 0 comments

Read review of Rayek’s spell-binding book about the joys and the pains of living in a unique village in Israel where Arabs and Jews live side by side. Many books have been written about the Oasis of Peace –  the unique village in Israel where Jews and...