Community | Beit of Hope

Meet Ali Abu Awwad

Ali Abu Awwad is a Palestinian nonviolence leader who transformed imprisonment, occupation, and the killing of his brother into a movement for dignity, freedom, civic responsibility, and nonviolent change.

Meet Hanan Schlesinger

Rabbi Hanan Schlesinger is a former Israeli settler and Orthodox rabbi whose encounters with Palestinian neighbors transformed his understanding of truth, belonging, and the possibility of a shared future.

Meet Roni Keidar

Roni Keidar is an Israeli peace activist from Netiv HaAsara on the Gaza border who insists that the safety of Israelis and the dignity and freedom of Palestinians are bound together.

Meet Sally Abed

Sally Abed is a Palestinian citizen of Israel organizing Jewish and Palestinian communities to turn fear, inequality, and separation into shared civic power.

Meet Sulaiman Khatib

Sulaiman “Souli” Khatib is a Palestinian former prisoner and co-founder of Combatants for Peace whose life’s work turns pain, imprisonment, and resistance into a vision of nonviolence and collective liberation.

Meet Achinoam Nini and Mira Awad

Achinoam Nini and Mira Awad are Jewish Israeli and Palestinian artists whose friendship has survived war, backlash, and competing demands for loyalty—and whose music and activism continue to insist that another way is possible.