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I was a young child attending grade school in Israel when the
Yom Kippur War broke out. I had been born in the U.S., and my family moved there. This movie brought back to me so much of what it’s like to be a young child, how hard it is to process all that’s going on around you, and the particular burden that these children have. And yet, their spirits are more plastic and flexible so that maybe they can be part of the peace. Also, I’m impressed that this school continued rather than imploding from its internal conflicts.
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Bridge Over the Wadi
(2008) 60 min A group of young Arab and Jewish children study together in a bilingual school program in Israel Israel’s Wadi Ara region is inhabited by Jews and Palestinians who live in close proximity, but in very separate communities. In 2004, a group of parents met for the first time with the vision of establishing a joint Arab-Jewish school there. Despite mutual suspicion, racist sentiments and legal battles with the Ministry of Education, the school opened its doors and met with amazing success. The difficulties never disappeared, however, and continue challenging the school’s existence. Some parents withdrew their children, fearing they were losing their cultural identity in a multicultural environment. Yet contrary to many films on the subject of the Israeli Palestinian conflict, which leave a persistent aftertaste of despair and pessimism, BRIDGE OVER THE WADI offers a very realistic alternative: a hundred children, Arab and Jewish, growing up side by side. A hundred children, whose influence in Israeli society is bound to grow, proving that it is possible to live together in peace. |
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