https://youtu.be/Cto7cGQlBxo On December 31 2025, Israeli public broadcaster Kan 11 featured the Hand in Hand "Kulna Yachad" Jaffa school in a segment showcasing Jewish-Arab partnership in Jaffa. "This is Jaffa," shares Hand in Hand Jaffa parent Alaa Siksek. "What takes place outside of our school is the 'bubble.' When my…

Principal of the Hand in Hand Kfar Saba "Alif-Beit" School, Mohammad Kundos, recently spoke on the "Hinuch Barosh" ("Education in Mind") podcast, and shared what it's like for kids to grow up in a bilingual, integrated Arab-Jewish school. What Does a Bilingual School Look Like? "One of the questions that…

Written by Debora Patta, Omar Abdulkader // Aired on May 8, 2024 / 10:30 AM EDT / CBS News Jerusalem — Every morning before she goes to school, 12-year-old Dariel Bardach-Goldstein tapes a number to her chest. It marks the days since her cousin was taken hostage by Hamas. Dariel…

Written by Kate Linthicum, photography by Marcus Yam // Published in Los Angeles Times on April 24, 2024. Carmel Neta and wife Inbal spend time with their children, Dror, 2, and Lily, 7, at home in Haifa, Israel, on Jan. 22, 2024. HAIFA, Israel —  Carmel Neta was on the phone…

Written by Rebecca Bardach // Published in Haaretz on February 4, 2024. Jews and Palestinians are experiencing the horrifying violence engulfing us in different ways. But at my daughter's school, where some families lost relatives living in Gaza, others to October 7, every morning kids and teachers show up, committed…

Written by Eleanor Beardsley // Heard on National Public Radio on January 24, 2024. JERUSALEM — When the bell rings at Jerusalem's Hand in Hand school, you hear something that's not common in Israel: the sound of young people's voices rising together in laughter and conversation in both Hebrew and…

Written by Eleanor Beardsley // Heard on National Public Radio on December 31, 2023. ROB SCHMITZ, HOST: We now take you to a school in Jerusalem where teachers try to keep Palestinian and Jewish students focused on their studies and maybe learn to understand each other a little more. They…

Written by Talya Minsberg // Published in the New York Times on December 31, 2023. In a classroom decorated with Hebrew and Arabic letters, a group of third graders — their eyes closed, their hands placed facing up on their laps — took a deep breath in unison. “And exhale,”…

Written by Simon Schama // Published in the Financial Times on November 10, 2023. History’s default setting is tragic: the plague in Athens; slave ships; Passchendaele; the Gulag; Hiroshima. But while the norm is carnage and suffering, it would be equally unhistorical to let the darkness entirely eclipse small points…

Written by Sally Weale // Published in the Guardian on November 4, 2023. A school in Jerusalem where students from Jewish and Arab backgrounds learn alongside one another has been awarded an international education prize for its success in “overcoming adversity”. The Max Rayne Hand in Hand school, founded in…

Written by Kylie Ora Lobell // Published in the Jewish Journal on February 16, 2023. "Twenty-five years ago, an American Jew named Lee Gordon and a Palestinian citizen of Israel named Amin Khalaf came up with an idea. Though it seemed crazy, they thought it might work to foster peace…

Palestinian-Israeli internet sensation and vlogger 'Nas Daily' recently visited Hand in Hand's Max Rayne Jerusalem school, and spent the day interviewing and filming our students, teachers, and staff. The result is this wonderful video which tells the story of Hand in Hand's unlikely inception, the many obstacles it has faced,…