We find ourselves once again in a surreal and challenging reality across Israel and our entire region. The Jerusalem Foundation offices are closed but we continue to work online from homes, shelters and safe rooms to support the people of Jerusalem and the many projects and initiatives that support those most in need at this time.
JF President, Arik Grebelsky, shares from his personal experience that after each siren he enters the public shelter in his neighborhood. This is a very special encounter with different people representing Jerusalem’s rich human tapestry…. Everyone sitting together, young people just released from army service in Gaza, elderly (who sat together through many wars, 1967 and Yom Kippur in 1973 and the Gulf War in 1991), religious and secular and all in harmony, just finding a way through this together. We hope that this feeling will continue also after this war is over and that we can carry forward this positive aspect of shared society in Jerusalem.
We hope that we will come out of our safe rooms to a new reality in the Middle East and that Jerusalem in all its diversity and beauty, will be the symbol of hope for the future.
Photo Credit: Arik Grebelsky on his way to the shelter