‘Oasis of peace’ in wartime

战火中的“和平绿洲”

The Documentary Podcast

2026-02-20

26 分钟
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Wahat al-Salam/Neve Shalom is a unique community located on a hilltop between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, where Jewish and Palestinian families have lived together since the late 1970s. Journalist Mike Lanchin first visited the community in the early 1980s when there was just a handful of Jews and Palestinian families living in makeshift houses poking out from the scrub land. Now, it boasts a fully bilingual-binational day school - the first of its kind – with children coming from the surrounding area, as well as a conflict resolution centre visited by Palestinians and Jews. Facilitators from the centre host inter-faith workshops outside the community. More than 40 years after its establishment, Wahat al-Salam/Neve Shalom today faces some of its most testing times following the 7 October 2023 Hamas attacks on Israel and the subsequent war in Gaza. Mike has been speaking to residents, young and old, about what the future now holds for this cross-community experiment.
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  • halfway between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, lies a small community.

  • a unique experiment in peaceful coexistence of Jews and Palestinians that's been going for more than 40 years.

  • It's called Wahat al-Salam in Arabic, Neve Shalom in Hebrew, Oasis of Peace in English.

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  • We felt like we had a big dream.

  • that two people are living on this piece of land and so we have to find a good way to live together.