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Date

Source and Notes

Jewish and Muslim holidays in rare coincidence
Cached version

October 8, 2005

Knight Ridder Newspapers

Radio Report: Wenn Liebe den Hass Überwindet - Das Geheimnis einer jüdisch-arabischen Ehe (Real Media format)

October 25, 2004

DRS Swiss Radio (German)

Die Jüdin und der Araber (cached in PDF format)

October, 2004

NZZ am Sonntag (Review of Oase des Friedens - German)

Responses concerning NSWAS following Haaaretz article Right of Remembrance

August, 2004

Various

Holy land: A place of despair, a place of hope (cached)

July 25, 2004

The Columbian (USA)

Reaching  for Peace in the Holy Land—Stories of Anger and Hope from Israeli and Palestinian Peace Advocates

Summer, 2004

NSWAS members were interviewed for this 30 minute radio documentary, with Walter Cronkite (USA)

Growing Up in an Oasis (cached)

June 11, 2004

JT News (USA)

Prix "Reporters d'Espoir" à Olivier Michel pour son article "Israël à l'Ecole de la Paix" (LeFigaro, 13.9.03)
cached (pdf)
Article d'Olivier Michel (cached)

May, 2004

Prix Reporters d'Espoir
(French)

Middle East Heroes
Laila Najjar and Adi Frish

cached version

May, 2004

Global Heroes

Arab and Jew find friendship in 'Oasis' from Israel hostilities (cached)

April, 2004

Seattle Times

Oasis of Peace is Wellspring of Mideast Hope (cached)

April, 2004

Cleveland Jewish News

Friends discuss violent region
cached version

April 22, 2004

The Daily Northwestern (USA)

Friendship blossoms in an oasis of peace
cached version

April 25, 2004

Daily Record (USA)

A Real Roadmap for Peace: Laila & Adi's Friendship

April 9, 2004

Associated Press:  published in various newspapers.

Konflikte im Friedensdorf (cached PDF)

February 4, 2004

Der Bund (German)

In einem imaginären Land
cached version

Feb 4, 2004

Berner Zeitung, Switzerland (German)

Neve Shalom - Oase des Friedens
PDF

Feb 3,2004

Bieler Tagblatt Seeland, Switzerland (German)

Israël à l'école de la paix

Sept 13, 2003

Le Figaro Magazine (French)

Musikalisches Plädoyer für den Frieden Reportage vom interreligiösen Friedenskonzert im Zürcher Grossmünster

cached version

March 6, 2003

Radio-Kath.ch (German)

Über 1300 Zuschauer beim Concert-for-Peace im Grossmünster

cached version

March 6, 2003

Zürich Reformiert Online (German)

Friedenskonzert im Grossmünster

cached version

March 6, 2003

Evangelische Reformiert Kirchen der Schweiz (German)

Amid The Ongoing Hatred And Violence In Israel, Residents Of One Village Know Only Peace

cached version

March 6, 2003

ABC Eyewitness News (transcript)

Zürich: Friedenskonzert und Friedensfeuer (kipa)

February 27, 2003

Katholische Kirche Zürcher Online (Online)

Bilingual schools for Arabs and Jews aim to break barriers

cached version

February 18, 2003

Int'l Herald Tribune

An extraordinary friendship

cached version

January - February, 2003

Owl magazine (Canada). For non-"Flash" page, go here.

Etwas hoffnung: bericht aus dem Friedensdorf Neve Shalom / Wahat al-Salam  (jpeg)

January 24, 2003

Neue Zürcher Zeitung (German)

Jane Fonda travels to peace village in Israel

December 22, 2002

SABC (South Africa)
short piece from Reuters

Students conflicted on mideast peace

December 7, 2002

Washington Post

BBC "Outlook" Program
(MP3 file download - 2 MB)

October 31, 2002

BBC World Service

Es gibt Platz für zwei Völker ...

(cached version)

July 8, 2002

Zeit-Fragen (German)

Survey: Encouraging results for the students of Neve Shalom

July, 2002

translated from the Mateh Yehuda and Tsur Hadassa journals

Hoffnungsschimmer in der Gewaltspirale (cached)

June, 2002

Aktuell/Israel  (German)

«Hoffnungslosigkeit ist nur eine Phase» (cached)

June 18, 2002

Neue Luzerner Zeitung (German)

Preis der Menschlichkeit (cached)

June 17, 2002

Cevi (German)

Lessons learned from Israel's Jewish/Moslem/Christian "peace village" Neve Shalom

(cached version)

June, 2002

Social Action.com

Besuch aus Israels Friedensdorf

(cached version)

May 10, 2002

eBund (German)

Peace village throws light on Middle East conflict
(text and audio)

(cached version of text)

May 5, 2002

Swiss Info (English).

Neve Shalom/Wahat al Salam, wo Frieden gelebt, gelernt und gelehrt wird.......

April, 2002

Lamed (German)

Das Dorf Neve Schalom / Wahat al-Salam:
Modell eines friedlichen Zusammenlebens von Palästinensern und Israeli

(cached version)

April 29, 2002

Zeit-Fragen (German)

Arabs, Israelis forge haven of coexistence

(cached version)

April 28, 2002

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Tagesgespräch: Evi Guggenheim (requires Real Audio)

April 17, 2002

Radio interview (Swiss German)

Ein israelisch-palästinensisches Ehepaar   Neve Schalom: Oase des Friedens

(cached version)

April 14, 2002

Mona Lisa Archive, ZDF Online

(German)

Ö-viksbo mitt i kriget

(cached version)

April 7, 2002

Örnsköldsviks Allehanda
(Swedish)

Like a bridge over (very)
 troubled water (cached)

April 5, 2002

City Lights weekend supplement of Jerusalem Post

Oasis of Dreams
(Radio show - requires Real Audio)

March 31, 2002

Tapestry, CBC Radio 1

Mideast turmoil tests resolve of a village built for coexistence

March 22, 2002

Philadelphia Inquirer

Ex-U.S. diplomat taps local business to help `peace village'

March 18, 2002

Haaretz English Edition (Anglofile)

Neve Shalom - Oase des Friedens in friedloser Zeit

cached version

March 8, 2002

Basler Zeitung (German)

Die Oase im Unheiligen Land
(cached)

February 24, 2002

Kurier Online (German)

Dans le village de Neve Shalom, arabes et juifs cohabitent (requires Real Player)

February 8, 2002

RSR (Swiss Radio)

Jewish, Arab visitors tell of peaceful Israeli home

cached version

January 17, 2002

Queens Times Ledger

On diverging paths From a village oasis, Israeli teens see their lives changing

(cached version)

January 17, 2002

Washington Jewish Week

Visiting Teens Share Stories of Middle East (cached)

January 17, 2002

The Boston Globe

Growing up in an Arab-Jewish village in Israel
                    cached version

January, 2002

Youth Action Net website

Arab, Jewish kids give lesson in living          cached version

January 9, 2002

New York Daily News

As the Middle East spirals out of control, a letter from Neve Shalom – the Israeli village where Jews and Arabs strive to live in peace

December 16, 2001

Sunday Express, UK - A follow up article to the article of December 9 (below)

Would you let your child go to school with the enemy?

December 9, 2001

Sunday Express, UK

Give Peace a Chance (original)
(cached)

December 2001

Homemaker's (MochaSofa site)

واحة السلام ترسل شحنة ملابس للاسيرات الفلسطينيات

Nov 1, 2001

Al Ittihad (Arabic)

Canadian Educator's book celebrates experiment in peaceful coexistence

(date unknown)

Toronto Star

מעבדת צילום - מעבדת נפץ

(jpeg format)

Oct 26, 2001

Kol Ha'Ir (Hebrew)

זעזוע במעבדה

(cached)

Oct 11, 2001

Ha'Aretz (Hebrew).  Also in English, below.

Neve Shalom / Wahat al Salam: Erfahrungen des jüdisch-arabischen Friedensdorfes in Israel (cached)

Oct 10, 2001

Deutsch-Israelische Gesellschaft, Frankfurt am Main

Troubled Times at the Oasis of Peace
(jpeg format)  part 1    part 2 

Oct 8, 2001

Ha'Aretz (English) print edition

Die «Oase des Friedens» als Gegenmodell

cached version

Oct 2, 2001

Der Landbote (German)

המועצה נלחמת בבי"הס נווה שלום

Sept 22, 2001

B'kitsur - Journal of Tsur Hadassa (Hebrew)

Intifadah zet relaties in Oase van Vrede op scherp

cached version

August 18, 2001

Het Parool (Dutch)

Tension in the Oasis of Peace

Aug 17, 2001

Jerusalem Post.  Must purchase from archive, after appropriate search.  Short article with various inaccuracies. 

Zusammenleben ist selbst in der "Friedensoase" schwer geworden

cached version

Aug 13, 2001

Wiener Zeitung (German)

Um oásis de tolerância em Israel
cached version

Aug 5, 2001

Jornal do Brasil (Portuguese)

Intefadeh creates tension between neighbors in peace village

(cached version)

Aug 4, 2001

SF Gate

Finding Hope in an Oasis of Dreams:  A daughter of Holocaust survivors is inspired by Jewish-Palestinian friendship
cached version

July 23, 2001

University of Toronto News

Zelfs oase van tolerantie heeft het moeilijk
cached version

July 23, 2001

Trouw (Netherlands) (a translated condensation of Jerusalem Report article, below)

Paradise Reconsidered
(zipped multiple JPEG file)

June 18, 2001

The Jerusalem Report (Israel)

Un' oasi dove la pace non e solo un sogno (Acrobat PDF Format)

May 27, 2001

L'Eco di Bergamo (Italy)

נווה שלום מתגייס לסייע לפלסטינים

(cached)

May 10, 2001

Y-Net (see also HAP)
for correspondence following this report,  see Opinion Discussion Forum

"Peace in the Midst of Conflict"

Mar 7, 2001

Totally Jewish

"Pioneros de la convivencia árabe-judía"

Feb 18, 2001

La Voz del Interior (online)

אם קיימת מציאות של סוס" ורוכבו הרוכב הוא שאומר בלי "פוליטיקה

Feb 7, 2001

Ha'Aretz (archive)

"I fredsbyn samsas judar och araber"

(cached version)

Nov 21, 2000

Dagens Nyheter (Sweden)

No `Oásis de Paz', judeus e árabes ignoram a guerra

Dec 26, 2000

Estadeo.com (Brazil)

Dans un village israélien, Juifs et Arabes apprennent à vivre ensemble

cached version

Nov 12, 2000

Info-Sud Agence de presse

Arab-Jewish village strives to be ``oasis of peace''

Nov 11, 2000

Reuters

"Storms of war torment the hilltop oasis of serenity"

(cached version)

Oct 29, 2000

The Guardian/The Observer

"Una escuela donde israelíes y palestinos desafían la guerra "

Oct 28, 2000

Clarin

"Jewish-Arab coexistence groups tested"

Oct 25, 2000

Zipple / Jewish Telegraphic Agency

"Island of Sanity"

Oct 12, 2000

Yedioth Aharonot (trans.)

Israel spielt Gipfel-Pläne herunter

Aug 8, 2000

(Various German newspapers)

"Oasis of Peace" unites Arabs and Jews"

Aug 6, 2000

St. Petersburg Times

"NEVE SHALOM
OASIS OF PEACE
WAHAT AL-SALAM"

May, 2000

Nazareth Arab Institute

Seeds of peace in the Middle East / Semi de paci in medio-oriente

Jan, 1999

Confronti (Eng, Italian)

"Neve Shalom"

April 1999

GewestGeluiden (Dutch)

"Daily Life at Neve Shalom"

circa 1999

Generation Fleece

"Neve Shalom: A Political Model?"

1999

Middle East Quarterly

"The People's Peace Process"

1999?

Na'amat magazine

"First Lady Starts Israel Tour at Cross-Cultural Oasis"

Dec 1998

New York Times

"Hillary Clinton Visits 'Oasis of Peace' Where Israelis, Palestinians Coexist"

Dec 14, 1998

Washington Post

"Tolerant mixed village eager for its visit from first lady"

December 13, 1998

Lexington-Herald Leader

Remarks of First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
at Neve Shalom/Wahat-al-Salam Arab-Jewish Village

Dec 13, 1998

White House, Office of the Press Secretary

NEVE SHALOM / WAHAT AL-SALAM
a community of peace working for Arab-Jewish coexistence & cooperation struggles to assure its future

March, 1998

"Many to Many"

The Enigma of the Middle East - A Measure of Success

Jan, 1998

Conflisct Resolution Notes Archive

"It'll take more than a miracle"

unknown

Cairo Times

"Harmony gets a chance in Israel"

unknown

the European Centre for Conflict Prevention

"Neve Shalom... le village où l'on enseigne la tolérance et la paix"

Sept 6, 1997

Progres de Cornoaille

It takes a Village, and the Village is Threatened

Sept 3, 1997

Los Angeles Times

"Making peace where politicians fear to tread"

June 30, 1997

US News & World Report

"A bit of understanding amid bellicose nations"

24 November 1996

Austin American-Statesman

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