JUNE 11, 2017
Abeer al-Natsheh, the founder and managing director of My Pink Electronics, said that she first found about OGS through the OneVoice Movement, a global initiative supporting Israeli and Palestinian grassroots activists, where she has been volunteering for the past decade.
For Natsheh, OGS offered an attractive “new idea of not only talking to your community, but talking to the Israeli community, too – knowing them on the basis of economics, doing projects with them.” Prior to participating in the program last summer, she said she knew very little about the Israeli community, despite living in such close proximity to Israelis in east Jerusalem.
“I was aiming to get to know people more than anything else, have a chance to live with a community,” she told the Post.
Her time at Brandeis helped open her eyes not only to the Israeli community, but also to the Palestinian community in Gaza and the obstacles the population there faces, Natsheh explained. As the program brings more and more people together each year, a growing team of OGS alumni can remain in touch with one and other and continue to speak freely, she added.
“It brings people together on a different level – an economic level,” Natsheh said. “We’ll have leaders with financial ability that can create a change.”
Israelis, Palestinians build start-ups together at Brandeis incubator
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Jews and Arabs working together in Israel. That is the way of the future. For the same rights Israel gives to all living there, citizens or residents, who look to live in peace and build a better country.
Jews, Arabs, Druze, Beduins, Bahai, etc.