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…

https://youtu.be/FVKm6xZAh88 The Philip and Bernice Krupp Center for Integrated Early Childhood Education is a beautiful, newly-renovated Jewish-Arab preschool in Haifa that opened its doors in September 2025. The preschool serves over 90 Arab and Jews students, ages 1-5, in a multicultural, bilingual and equal setting. Enjoy a tour of this…

Welcome to our newest preschool in Haifa! The Philip & Bernice Krupp Center for Integrated Early Childhood Education was made possible by a generous donation from George and Douglas Krupp through the Philip & Bernice Krupp Foundation for Jewish Life. Their donation of $1 million is being used to renovate…

https://youtu.be/AcM9aPaB1SY On October 15th 2025, Hand in Hand hosted a webinar titled "Hand in Hand Haifa: A Model for Shared Living and Growth," featuring two remarkable community leaders and parents—Rana Farran and Dr. Karney Lahad. Below is an abbreviated version of Rana's story: “I grew up in a Palestinian community…

https://youtu.be/cVfmXTT0Kg8 On October 15th 2025, Hand in Hand hosted a webinar titled "Hand in Hand Haifa: A Model for Shared Living and Growth," featuring two remarkable community leaders and parents—Dr. Karney Lahad and Rana Farran. Below is an abbreviated version of Karney's story: "We moved to Haifa five years ago,…

https://youtu.be/vfRmcK1k0NE On October 15th 2025, Hand in Hand hosted Rana Farran and Dr. Karney Lahad—two inspiring Haifa mothers and Hand in Hand community leaders for a one-hour webinar. Karney and Rana shared their personal stories, what led them to Hand in Hand, and how the Haifa community has navigated the…

Soha Mansour and Lilach Borovsky-Sapir are two halves of a co-teaching team at the Hand in Hand Kfar Saba "Alif-Beit" School. Together, they've continued to model partnership, mutual respect, and inclusion for their students—even throughout the upheavals of the past year. Our teachers may not wear capes, but they chose…

On December 9th, 2024, Hand in Hand hosted a webinar titled "Anchors through the Storm," featuring two remarkable HIH leaders—Mohammad Kundos, Prinicipal of the HIH Kfar Saba School, and Rebecca Bardach, a HIH parent, writer, activist, and facilitator. Both Rebecca and Mohammad have experienced tremendous personal losses due to the…

Hand in Hand's latest webinar, which took place on June 20, 2024, featured an inspiring discussion with two Hand in Hand alumni: Sally Karaja and Bar Itamari. https://youtu.be/SsKLF1nGSUw

So many voices are determined to make violence the only option between our two peoples right now. In fact a TON of people are asking us - how are you managing to keep Hand in Hand together during a war?! The short answer: we're pouring every resource we have into…

How do you keep a mixed Arab-Jewish community together during war time? Our Alumni Coordinator, Yakir Renbaum, has advice. Yakir describes the formula we're using with the Hand in Hand University Student Community - a cohort of Jewish and Arab university students in Jerusalem who spend a year together learning,…