In February 2017, Hand in Hand Alumni Fatima Yahia and Bar Itamari stood together in front of thousands at a gathering for Jewish-Arab cooperation and said: Bar and Fatima became friends in 1st grade when they started in Hand in Hand’s Wadi Ara School, Gesher al HaWadi, in 2004. After…

We are very proud to share that Hand in Hand’s “Bridge over the Valley” School in Wadi Ara has been awarded the prestigious Education Prize for the Haifa region from the Ministry of Education! The prize was awarded for the school's successful efforts in a variety of areas including: Academic…

The Minister of Education and State Comptroller lead a delegation of visitors to our Jerusalem school on January 17th, 2017. Minister Bennet and Comptroller Shapira were joined by the CEO of the Comptroller office, the CEO of the Ministry of Education, the Director of the Jerusalem Education Authority, school supervisors…

amia and Lihi are both mothers in the Haifa Preschool with sons who started 1st grade today. This first grade is the first of its kind in Haifa and will grow into a full elementary school in the years to come. But the road to this day was long, below…

In my first week as the school principal, a father of one of the students came into my office. He was tall, with a mustache, and when he saw me, a small woman on a chair behind the desk, he couldn’t take it and spoke to me disrespectfully, witheringly. So…

Mohamad is the Community Department Director and one of the founders of the Hand in Hand Wadi Ara School. Below is his story and his famiy's story, in his own words:  I grew up in the village of Aara, an Arab village in Wadi Ara, in the center of Israel.…

Watch Hand in Hand students, parents, and teachers discuss how they continue to live together, even with rising tensions and violence [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4PK7tnYzfw[/embed]

Amidst violence, our students at Hand in Hand in Wadi Ara continue to live together. Listen to them speak about what the school means to them, and what they contend with outside and inside the classroom: [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvRWkgQQ0yo[/embed]    

In 2014, Hand in Hand students were invited to light the Hannuka Menorah in the White House with President and Michelle Obama. The President spoke about Hand in Hand as he introduced Inbar and Mouran, 9th graders at the time. Watch below: [embed]https://youtu.be/cqkswFS11dk?t=298[/embed]    

Since December 6, many supporters reached out to ask how we are doing with the latest political developments and growing tensions in Israel. We were touched by that and wanted to give you a glimpse of what this time has been like in Jerusalem and in Wadi Ara. In the…