OVP organized an event in Salfeet for children, where more than 700 people attended. This event was held in the 29th of May with 200 children gathered with their parents -- they sang, danced, and gave speeches about hope and peace.
OVI invited its youth leadership to take part in the Shavuot Festival Event of the Kibbutz Movement at Gan Shemuel. OneVoice granted the people of the kibbutz a symbolic fruit basket and blessed them on behalf of OneVoice Palestine and the West Bank Farmer. In return, the kibbutz farmers awarded the Palestinians baskets with their agricultural crop.
OVP organized an event that targeted farmers in Bidou village in North West Jerusalem. In the event farmers from the surrounding 15 villages gathered and planted olive trees to express their willingness to end occupation and live in peace.
OVI reached out to the Israeli public in order to create awareness to the new initiative, with the message that the Saudi initiative is not perfect but is a constructive base for negotiations. OneVoice Israel activists handed out 3,000 flyers with the highlights of the initiative and called to the moderate people to raise their voices in favor of negotiations.
OneVoice was the featured story on the Arabic Al Hurra TV's segment "With the People." The story aired in Arabic - please see the corresponding document for the English transcript.
OneVoice staff and volunteers posted thousands of stickers throughout Israel and Palestine asking citizens "Ma Ata Muchan La'asot le'Siyum HaSechsuf?" - "What Are You Willing to Do to End the Conflict?" in Hebrew - and "Shoo Dourak?" - "What's Your Role?" (in ending the conlfict!) in Arabic - to kick off our 2006 Campaign.
OneVoice staff works to recruit new members and continues to expand its Youth Leadership program throughout the Fall as part of our "What Are You Willing to Do? (To End the Conflict!)" Campaign.
From "Enough is Enough: Israel and the Palestinian Territories" - OneVoice Plenary Session at the 2007 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Photographs courtesy of the World Economic Forum.
Throughout the most recent round of elections in Palestine (the Presidential elections in 2005 and Parliamentary elections in January 2006) and Israel (the elections in March 2006), OneVoice activists were out in the streets, spreading the message that Every Vote Counts.
Photos from University of California Santa Barbara, University of California Los Angeles, University of California San Diego, University of California Irvine, and New Horizons School
Photos from the Jewish Cultural Society, Kalamazoo College, Michigan State University, Western Michigan University, Ohio State University, and the University of Michigan Ann Arbor.