Joint List MKs give their blessing to volunteerism initiative that is not connected to the army or government, but puts local Arab councils in charge

“Last Thursday, the head of the Arab Joint List faction, MK Ayman Odeh, along with fellow Joint List lawmakers Masud Ganaim and Jamal Zahalka, backed a plan developed by two coexistence NGOs that would see Arab towns establish their own local volunteering programs for local army-age youth.

The program is a joint initiative of The Abraham Fund, an Israeli non-profit working on Arab-Jewish coexistence issues, and the Arab-Jewish Center for Equality, Empowerment and Cooperation (JEEC-NISPED), and was presented during a roundtable discussion in Kfar Qassem.”

Read the full story in The Times of Israel

Photo credit: Abraham Fund Initiatives