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War. And Peace? Ethnic cleansing in Masafer Yatta: The Clock is Ticking!
Dear friends, On June 18th, 2025, the Supreme Planning Council of the Judea and Samaria District made a critical decision: approval for...
Jul 4, 2025


How much evil can you swallow ?
Don't turn your head and look the other way. Don't stand in silence and fold your arms when you see injustice. It's two in the morning,...
Apr 1, 2025


Peacebearer / Annie Stavie
playing cards with one girl in the village I joined Peacebearer today, 2nd January 2025. The weather was funny today: chilly, windy,...
Feb 26, 2025


Salem (Peace) be upon us and the whole world.
And some other good things that are happening.... Hello everyone. It's true, I haven't written for a long time. But, this time you'll...
Jan 26, 2025


They’re Just Plain Folks. . . . Assaf Katz
Assi and the late Abu Saffi, playing. Just people . . . Today I spent time with Eyal and Assi, visiting a number of Palestinian friends...
Jul 15, 2024


We survived Pharoah, we’ll survive this as well ????
There’s no water, the houses have been destroyed, no pasture, no work The neighbors show up for “curtesy visits”, and there’s no one to...
Jul 10, 2024


To Be or not to Be, Independence Day2024 /E.Shani
At midnight I wake up to the sound of a fighter plane flying across the Palestinian desert. This time it doesn't sound like a...
Jun 3, 2024


"Keep on doing good in the world”
Eileil Harzion Shani, 1968-2024 Hello everyone, I hope this finds you well. It's been almost two weeks since my partner, Eileil, left us....
Apr 27, 2024


On This Land, There is Something Worth Living For
By Eyal and Eileil Shani This week there was a heavy rainfall. A lot of water came down from the heavens and it felt like it came to wash...
Dec 17, 2023


By God, There will be Peace!
By Eyal and Eileil Shani A Little of What is Good / Zvia Aharoni A little of what is good is still good, Can you recognize what’s bad in...
Dec 3, 2023


We sat facing the view and, for a moment, we almost forgot there’s a war on. But then we remembered
Eyal and Eileil Shani Today is the 36th day of the war and we remember, once again, things that happened in the past week in the South...
Nov 24, 2023


Between the Checkpoints
By Eileil and Eyal Shani How does it feel to stand and wait in front of a checkpoint? How does it feel to reach the checkpoint? And...
Nov 22, 2023


Abu Safi was violently displaced from his home and now a settler has seized his land
Many of you joined me and met Abu Safi and his family. I got to know the family amazingly through a settler, a man who knows many of his...
Oct 25, 2023


Today I was almost shot!
Today I was almost shot, because I wanted to bring food to people who are currently left without food. But just before I tell you what...
Oct 21, 2023


Breakfast makes peace
Somewhere beyond "true" and "false" there is a field. I will meet you there Jalal ad-Din Rumi to meet the "other" - to meet "myself in...
Aug 22, 2023


Thursday morning / Samdar Madi
Thursday morning. It actually always starts a day, two days and a week before, and ends a few days after. Inside, inside me. The...
Aug 22, 2023


The entrance to "Besieged Jinba" - in the area of Masper Yata, south of Mount Hebron
Visit to the south of Mount Hebron, Thursday, August 4 Article: Idit Porat, with addition of Eileil and Eyal Summer, hot, the sun is...
Aug 17, 2022


A blocked road on earth is like a meridian stuck in the human body - it only brings pain and illness
Tuesday, towards the end of Ramadan. This month I hardly go on regular visits to the southern Hebron Mountains. Instead we come to be...
Apr 29, 2022


Her, him, them and me - "Only fear dies *"
A day before: Her: Can I share with you my impressions? Me: Sure. But like this, on Whatsapp? Her: I will not overdo it. Just, between...
Feb 5, 2022


The things I wanted to forget and yet I decided to write to you / Eileil
A wintry, cold, misty day, and we are deep in the heart of the desert. In the distance I recognize the Palestinian flag flying on a high...
Dec 14, 2021
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