An Olive Tree in California
for the Middle East public peace process

December, 2002, in the Season of Light, a symbolic, young olive tree was planted by the then-10-year-old Jewish Palestinian Living Room Dialogue Group of San Mateo, Calif., on a slope in front of the Traubman home, site of their first meeting in July, 1992.

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Every year -- like the Dialogue itself -- the maturing tree has provided an increasingly generous harvest.

October, 2005 Harvest
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November, 2007 Harvest
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