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Right-wing activists attend a rally calling for the reestablishment of Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip, near the border in southern Israel, July 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
September 28, 2026, 6:29 pm
Board of Peace official: Extremist views in Israel impeding effort to deradicalize Gaza
Official from US-controlled panel overseeing Gaza rebuild expresses alarm over widespread support in Israel — trickling down from politicians to youth — for ‘encouraging migration’ of Palestinians
By Jacob Magid
Illustrative: A placard in the shape of Israel with the colors of the Palestinian flag, and Arabic that reads 'Jerusalem is the eternal capital of Palestine,' at a barbed wire surrounding the Israeli security barrier, with the Israeli settlement of Mod’in Ilit in the background, during a protest against Israel and the US in the West Bank village of Bil’in, near Ramallah, January 31, 2020. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
September 20, 2026, 7:31 pm
Pew poll finds majority of Israelis and Palestinians say two-state coexistence impossible
New survey shows just 17% of Israelis and 21% of Palestinians in West Bank and East Jerusalem see path to peaceful two-state outcome; respondents cite land, security and deep distrust
By ToI Staff
Rahm Emmanuel tours Tel Aviv’s Sourasky Medical Center on July 6, 2026. (Rahm Emanuel/X)
August 31, 2026, 11:59 pm
Rahm Emmanuel gives $550K to program training Palestinian doctors at Israeli hospital
Democratic politician dubs initiative ‘healthcare diplomacy,’ weeks after Tel Aviv speech warning Israel will become a pariah if it maintains Netanyahu’s policies
By Jacob Magid
Tom Cohen conducts the youth program of The Jerusalem Orchestra East & West in Tel Aviv, May 2026. (Yaakov Buta via JTA)
May 29, 2026, 11:02 am
In Jerusalem, an Arab-Jewish youth orchestra builds a new ‘East-West’ sound together
After years of war, conductor Tom Cohen says Jerusalem Orchestra East & West offers young musicians from across communities rare source of joy, discipline and hope
By Deborah Danan
Dr. David Hasan, the founder of The Gaza Children Village, speaks at Mediterranean Deli in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, on April 28, 2026. (Courtesy of Rabbi Daniel Greyber via JTA)
May 2, 2026, 5:30 am
US synagogue helps Palestinians raise money for Gaza, finds common ground over falafel
Daylong fundraiser results from relationships formed between rabbi, Palestinian restaurateur and Duke neurosurgeon who seek peace, reconciliation and a good bowl of hummus
By Grace Gilson
Jalil Dabit, right, wears a shirt that translates to 'I am a hummussexual.' He and Oz Ben David opened Kanaan in 2015. (Elisabeth Patrikiou via JTA)
October 17, 2025, 8:19 am
After wartime dip, hope is back on the menu for Israeli-Palestinian hummus bar in Berlin
Jalil Dabit and Oz Ben David have run Kanaan, a hub of coexistence, for 10 years, but slowing sales and acts of vandalism since Oct. 7 nearly saw them hang up their aprons
By Shira Li Bartov
Palestinians struggle to get food and humanitarian aid from the back of a truck as it moves along the Morag corridor near Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, August 4, 2025. (AP Photo/ Mariam Dagga)
August 11, 2025, 10:11 pm
Former students at Israeli institute raise some $60,000 for Gazan ex-colleagues
Group has helped 2 alumni of Arava institute for Environmental Studies leave enclave for universities overseas, supports a third still in the Strip and the families of all three
By Sue Surkes
Hesham Taha (right) and Avi Israel, co-founders of Jerusalem-based startup Teramount. (Courtesy of Perry Mendelboim)
July 29, 2025, 3:40 pm
Two physicists are the brains of an Arab-Jewish startup connecting optics to chips
Jerusalem’s Teramount secures $50 million from investors for device that connects optical fibers to silicon chips, enabling data transfer at the speed of light for AI apps
By Sharon Wrobel
A delegation of Israelis traveled to Tamra to console the Arab families mourning there after a deadly missile strike in June 2025. (Courtesy Haviva Ner-David via JTA)
June 21, 2025, 2:23 pm
Deadly Iran strike on Tamra sparked anti-Arab racism. A tidal wave of solidarity followed
After a viral video showed some extremist Jewish Israelis celebrating attack that killed 4 women in the Muslim-majority city, many Jews showed up to hug the mourners
By Deborah Danan
Elana Kaminka, mother of Lt. Yannai Kaminka, who fell on October 7, 2023, saving lives at the Zikim IDF base. (courtesy)
May 8, 2025, 1:12 am
What Matters Now to bereaved mother Elana Kaminka: End the Gaza ‘forever war’
Peace activist tirelessly promotes dialog between Israelis and Palestinians — and protests the Netanyahu government, which she holds accountable for her soldier son’s death on Oct. 7
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Police escort a woman away from right-wing rioters who disrupted a screening at Ra'anana's Beit Samueli synagogue of the joint Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Day ceremony, April 29, 2025. (X screenshot)
April 30, 2025, 9:20 am
Rioters storm Ra’anana synagogue during screening of Israeli-Palestinian memorial event
4 police officers and 3 participants injured, 3 right-wing activists arrested after attack on Reform Beit Samueli building; MK Gilad Kariv, a, rabbi, decries ‘attempted pogrom’
By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff
Palestinians, Israelis and politicians attend a memorial ceremony for those lost in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, in Tel Aviv on May 3, 2022, as Israel marks its annual Memorial Day. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
April 29, 2025, 1:27 pm
An alternative Memorial Day ceremony marks its 20th year. Participants say it’s the future
Controversial joint Israeli-Palestinian event honoring the slain on both sides continues to grow, even in the shadow of the October 7 massacre and ongoing war in Gaza
By Nurit Yohanan
Dr. Tareq Abu Hamed, the head of Israel's Arava Institute, in New York City, February 14, 2025. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
February 20, 2025, 12:39 am
US colleges could learn from Israeli-Palestinian dialogue, says head of eco institute
Dr. Tareq Abu Hamed, from East Jerusalem, says Arava program’s students have compulsory, confidential, ‘brave’ conversations where both sides find it hard to talk, hard to listen
By Luke Tress
Members of Israel's Bedouin community take part in the country's first legal camel race in the Negev desert, near Kibbutz Tlalim, on November 1, 2024. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)
November 1, 2024, 7:22 pm
First legal camel race held in Israel with thousands of spectators
Bedouin host says Negev event is symbol for coexistence with Jewish communities: ‘We are here together, and we will stay together and we will live here together, in peace’
By ToI Staff
Layla Alsheikh, left, Yonatan Zeigen, second left, Robi Damelin, second right and Arab Aramin outside The Africa Center on September 18, 2024. (Cathryn J. Prince/ Times of Israel)
September 29, 2024, 5:00 am
On US tour, Israelis and Palestinians united by violence hold fast to hopes for peace
With conflict seeming more inexorable than ever, victims from both sides tell US audiences understanding and willpower can keep future generations from paying the price they’ve borne
By Cathryn J. Prince
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