Peace Child Israel since 1988 has brought together young Jewish and Palestinian Israelis to learn coexistence using theater and the arts.
      They live the authentic life of democratic values, tolerance and mutual respect.
      Jewish and Arab teens work with counterparts from around the country to create original dramas about coexistence.
      Their plays, in Arabic and Hebrew, are performed for family, friends and the public.
      More recently, the parents have also engaged in sustained Dialogue relationship building.
      They stay together even in difficult times when many others withdraw into familiar clans and old ways.

      Friday, July 21, 2006, when rockets and missiles were terrorizing and raining death on citizens in both Lebanon and northern Israel, Peace Child Israel families remembered their high calling together.
      "It's not easy for Arabs and Jews to sit in the same room," many of their neighbors were lamenting passively.
      But Peace Child Israel Jewish and Palestinian families indeed gathered on a roof in the ancient 7-century-old Arab village of Umm El-Fahim -- insisting on meeting, talking, closing the distance, transforming confrontation into cooperation and affection.