In mid-November, we made further progress in our Hadar community development project. We have held series of meetings where Israeli Jews and Arabs, some of whom were neighbors for many years meeting face to face for the first time
The meeting went well in a sense that each participant of the group showed great desire and enthusiasm to be operative as to their plan. We were 7 Jews and two Arabs.
The first part of the meeting was very tough. Suddenly a "sleeping" group talked as they never did before. That was frightening and very sad. New voices have been heard from the Jews. They talked about disagreements with their Arab neighbors' opinions towards Nasralla and the war. There was anger, frustration, despair. Our hostess represented the Arab voice. She said that some of the voices she heard at her home town frightened her more than those of Liberman and his friends because of the sudden change in people’s opinions. It was very sad and difficult to see what this war did here in Haifa.

The good news is that after we shared reflections, emotions, and the new motions resulting from the war within the group, we all agreed that we felt that dialogue is now extremely important. Much more than ever. We also all agreed that it is our duty now to meet more often and to be operative in order to show that in spite of all we are still a working group.
We are meeting this week twice to make a significant progress. We also decided to invite new Arabs to this group in that stage in order to make it an Arabs Jews' group.