i'm a resident of wahat al—salam, neve shalom.i'm a resident of wahat al—salam, neve shalom. it was a very small, tiny community, with no trees, no running water, no connection to electricity 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's not really realistic? i said, maybe, but we hope it's going to teach others that it is 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 very powerful to see a moment of change. really people realise that what they saw before, it's not the reality. and we learnt a lot. this is how we started the school for peace. the different events that took place outside of the village, like