Education Israel Project #3967

The School for Peace

by American Friends of Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam

Project Report | Dec 21, 2012
School for Peace mourns loss of Director

By Nava Sonnenschein | Director of School for Peace

Nava Sonnenschein and Ahmad Hijazi

This summer School for Peace Director Ahmad Hijazi and his son Adam were killed in a car accident while traveling in Africa. It was a terrible loss to the School for Peace and Neve Shalom – Wahat al Salam. Ahmad was my working partner for the last 20 years, a great partnership that I will miss every day every day of my life. The pain of his loss is beyond words that can tell. Ahmad was fully dedicated to peace and equality between the Jews and Arabs. He was a leader of peace, a gifted educator and a man of all people. His influence opened eyes, broadened horizons and shaped inspiration for both Arab and Jewish participants and facilitators.

In September Dr. Nava Sonnenschein was appointed, for the coming three years, as the Director of the School for Peace by the board of the non-profit. We are dedicated to continuing Ahmad’s work and had a special memorial meeting for the 3 courses for change agents that Ahmad was involved with. We at NS/WAS also had the memorial service for him and his son. We at the SFP feel that we must continue the vision we had dreamt together with dear Ahmad.

Last year the SFP published an anthology of Israeli & Palestinian writers (short stories & poems) "Two People Write from Left to Right in both Languages Arabic and Hebrew”. This anthology can now benefit the youth programs as we begin a literature teachers’ training programs. Teachers from both sides will be able to use this book in their school systems. We hope to train Israeli & Palestinian teachers from Israel and from Palestine together with the Future Generation Hands Association from Nablus Palestine.

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