In 2023, Ecoocean initiated Youth United for the Environment. The aim was to mentor and equip young to research and report on environmental issues and to drive change in their local communities. Despite the war, 210 participants from schools in Jewish and non Jewish communities was brought together, to work on making their environment better.
'I have three choices: to use violence and I will be the hero of Palestine for one month; to accept to live under occupation and accept to be a slave; or to fight the occupation using non-violent resistance. So you choose: everybody would choose to fight using non-violence.' Issa Amro, 2024 Laureate
On July 1 2024, an important group of organizations and individuals came together in Tel Aviv for the Great Peace Event. It was not a conference; it was the launch of a revitalized, impactful Israeli peace movement. The Robert Weil Family Foundation was one of many supporters who where part of making this come true.
Jonatan Macznik, Etgar Keret, and Sandra Weil
The fourth season of Shalompodden has just been released. It features a range of exciting guests, including internationally renowned writer Etgar Keret, and Michal Sella, a political expert and the Executive Director of Givat Haviva - a center promoting a shared society for Jews and Palestinians.
Erik Ullenhag, Swedish Ambassador to Israel
The Swedish Ambassador to Israel, Erik Ullenhag writes: For me as a diplomat and an outsider, it is difficult enough to take in the suffering of both sides. I fully understand that it is even more difficult for two traumatized populations to see the other's reality. But if peace is to be achieved, meetings between people are necessary.
13 of January 2024 Kenan Malik talked at Kulturhuset in Stockholm about the origins and pitfalls of identity politics. Already 14 years ago Malik was invited to Stockholm by us through the Per Ahlmark Foundation, to talk about his then resently published book 'From Fatwa To Jihad'.
Since its founding in 2020, FeelBeit welcomed more than 40,000 Israelis and Palestinians to its arts events and cultural activities. The horrors of October 7 called all Israeli-Palestinian cooperation into question and tested the bridges built with great effort over many years.
'People call me a maligner of Israel, but it's our government that maligns Israel, the settler-messianic right wing. They are the people who think that the IDF's campaign should continue, and that dead soldiers and dead hostages are an understandable price.'
Issa Amro is Palestinian, human rights defender, a practioner of non violence as method and an activist against the occupation. The Robert Weil Family Foundation are proud supporters of the work with the groundbreaking film about Issa Amro.