Highlighting the work of activists, peacebuilders, and humanitarian leaders, this segment explores ongoing efforts to foster resilience, dialogue, and reconciliation in Israel and Palestine. This webinar is the second of a two-part series that examines how current dynamics are shaping political life, humanitarian efforts, and the search for pathways toward peace. Facilitated by Eva Armour, Seeds of Peace Executive Director

Huda Abuarqoob

Huda Abuarqoob is a Palestinian peace and policy strategist and feminist activist with deep expertise in conflict transformation, inclusive politics, and social change. Most recently, she was country director at Search for Common Ground Palestine, where she promoted trust and collaboration in conflict zones. Formerly the first regional director of ALLMEP, she united 170+ groups and helped secure historic US investment in peacebuilding (MEPPA). A Fulbright scholar and renowned speaker, Ms. Abuarqoob has led key organizations across the US and Palestine. Born in Jerusalem and now based in Hebron, she remains grounded in her family’s legacy of education and activism, and was awarded the Laudato Si' Prize in 2017 for her contributions to peace.

Ittay Flescher

Ittay Flescher facilitates interfaith dialogue between Israeli and Palestinian teens through Seeds of Peace, in the Kids4Peace Jerusalem program.He is also the Jerusalem Correspondent for The Jewish Independent from Australia. As an insightful analyst of Israeli politics, he has been published in Haaretz, The Age, Crikey, ABC Religion and Ethics, Jerusalem Post, Fathom and many other publications and newspapers. In 2025, he published his first book with HarperCollins titled ‘The Holy and the Broken: A cry for Israeli-Palestinian peace from a land that must be shared.’ Before moving to Jerusalem in 2018, he was a high school educator in Melbourne for 15 years, teaching Australian History, Jewish Studies and Religion and Society.

Rabbi Nava Hefetz

Nava Hefetz is an independent Rabbi and member of Les Guerrières de la Paix (Warriors for Peace). Most recently served as the Director of Education and Interfaith at Rabbis for Human Rights. She runs dozens of programs dealing with Judaism and Human Rights in Israel and overseas. She developed an interdisciplinary program to teach Peace and Human Rights from Jewish and International perspectives. She supervised rabbis working across Israel on Human Rights issues such as Violation of rights domestically and in the Occupied Territories, social justice, gender, the position of the Jewish tradition towards "others" in Israeli society. Hefetz collaborates with many Palestinian and Israeli civil society organizations as well as with politicians from both sides, in order to build peace and promote coexistence.

Sulaiman Khatib

Sulaiman Khatib is Co-Founder and International Director of Combatants for Peace, a Board Member of ELHAM – the Day After, and co-founder of Ripples Collective, a group of Palestinian and Israeli non-violent activists, artists, and facilitators.  As a local organizer, he has garnered global recognition as a Nobel Peace Prize contender in 2017 and 2018, At 14, Khatib was sentenced to fifteen years in prison and served a term of ten and a half years where he learned history, Hebrew, English and about world conflicts. He was inspired by peace activists such as Ghandi and Mandela.  As a result, he developed new ideas about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and has been a committed advocate for for the last twenty years.

Facilitated by Eva Armour

Eva Armour has spent the past 25 years working with communities in conflict to imagine and build a more just and peaceful reality. She is currently the Executive Director of Seeds of Peace, an organization that inspires and equips new generations of leaders to bridge divides and transform conflict through dialogue. Prior to that, she served as Seeds of Peace’s Chief Impact Officer, building evaluation systems and partnerships to ensure a continuous commitment to learning and improvement. She also spent 10 years as the Director of Global Programs, where she built a theory of change and programmatic framework to support teams leading local programs with youth and educators, and previously worked as the Director of Multinational Programs in Israel/Palestine. Eva is a community organizer with Showing Up for Racial Justice in Boston, member of the BMW Responsible Leaders Network, and on the Board of Directors for Activate Labs. She has published in Rolling Stone and The Christian Science Monitor, featured in Le Figaro, and profiled in the book Changemakers. She holds an MA in International Educational Development from Columbia University and BA from Tufts University.