i am an israelijew and i came to live in wahat al—salam neve shalom in ‘79. ctricity but we had big dreams. here we found hope and we wanted to start a life with people who are enlightened, who accept us as we are. when we came, of course there were some questions about, are you fooling yourself, are you going to be in some kind of utopian society where it is not really realistic and i said maybe but, you know, i hope it's going to teach others that it's actually possible because this is why we are here. although only 15 families live at neve shalom, 7,000 teenagers have passed through, attending its peace workshops. some had never met a member of the opposite community until they came here. it is really powerful to see a moment of change. people really realise that what they thought before, it‘s not the reality. and we learned a lot. this is how we started the school for peace. the different events that took place outside the village, the war in gaza, it initiated a lot of talk and discussions and debates. my youngest daughter, for instance, her opinion on th