Israeli, Jordanian Women Explore Women’s Economic Initiatives in Israel’s Tamar Region
Jordanian women from Ghor Safi and Fifa and Israeli women from the Tamar Regional Council view a solar cooking demonstration at the Ein Gedi Ecological Garden. Gundi Shachal, FoEME’s field researcher in Ein Gedi, describes a recent cross-border meeting between Jordanian and Israeli women from Good Water Neighbors Communities. See our flickr page for more […]
FoEME Mourns the Tragic Passing of Former GWN Coordinator Efrat Gamliel
On Sunday, March 7 a terrible car accident killed former FoEME staff member Efrat Gamliel, her two very young children and mother. Efrat was the first Israeli project coordinator for the Good Water Neighbors project from 2001 to 2003. She played an instrumental role in creating the framework for the success of the project. Efrat […]
GWN Communities Wadi Fuqin and Tzur Hadassah Join to Oppose Separation Barrier
Israeli-Palestinian musical group “Naam” performs at a cross-border meeting between residents of Wadi Fuqin and Tzur Hadassah Netanel Silverman, FoEME’s Israeli Community Coordinator in Tzur Hadassah, reflects on a recent meeting between Good Water Neighbors communities Tzur Hadassah and Wadi Fuqin. On Wednesday 24.2 we met together – the Jewish residents of Tzur Hadassah and […]
Jordan Valley Youth Leaderships Learn about Jordan River Woes
Students from Israel, Jordan, and Palestine tour the Jordan Valley, exploring the site where the Jordan River meets the Sea of Galilee On February 25-27, FoEME gathered 30 young leaders from three schools in the Jordan Valley region (Kings Academy, Madaba Jordan; Terra Sancta, Jericho Palestine; Geon Hayarden, Beit Shean Israel), to learn about the […]
FoEME’s CGIS Teenagers Take Responsibility for their Shared Environment
CGIS youth present their findings at a joint Israeli-Palestinian-Jordanian camp. “I learned that you can cooperate with other people, even when there isn’t a common language and that a lot can be achieved if only we try.” — Hani, a 15 year old Palestinian boy responding to a CGIS activity evaluation question ‘What is the […]
FoEME’s Youval Arbel Reflects on the Copenhagen Climate Conference
Youval Arbel, FoEME’s Israeli Deputy Director, reflects on his experiences at the UN climate conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. From December 13th to 19th, 2009, I was one of about 40,000 disappointment activists and officials who came all the way to freezing Copenhagen to take part in what should have been the ‘turning point’ in the […]
Jordanian Youth Create Posters, Raise Awareness about Climate Change
With the international climate talks in Copenhagen, Denmark underway, we’d like to take the opportunity to highlight the efforts of more than 100 Jordanian youngsters who used their creativity to help stop catastrophic climate change. This past month FoEME’s Amman office partnered with UNESCO to run poster competition to increase awareness about the impact of […]
We Did It! 350 Event Was a Smashing Success!
[rockyou id=154392228&w=426&h=320] Yesterday, on October 24, 2009, over 300 Israelis, Palestinians and Jordanians gathered around the Dead Sea, transcending political and geographical boundaries to create an aerial photomontage as part of the largest day of climate activism ever. Participants, organized by EcoPeace/ Friends of the Earth Middle East (FoEME), joined more than 5,200 communities in […]
Countdown: Day 350 Less Than One Week Away!
Our inaugural post for FoEME’s new blog couldn’t come at a better time! We are only days away from October 24, the biggest international day of climate action in the history of the world! Over the past few months, 350.org‘s network of global activists have been hard at work organizing this truly global campaign. The […]