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“Attention to Jewish-Arab relations must be advanced to the central political, public and media discourse, and anything less than that is simply negligence and the forsaking of our future and the future of our children.”

“The mission of building trust … is not a mission of ‘the left,’ or one political camp or another, but rather a mission for anyone who cares about this country. It cannot be that one camp takes ownership and dictates the country’s ways and its language, since we cannot have one camp completely avoiding [this] responsibility.”

“The fact that this issue has become identified with a political camp, on both the Jewish and Arab sides, is nothing short of tragic, since building trust between Jews and Arabs is the key to our existence here, to our future and our fate.” (A letter by President Reuven Rivilin to an event ‘Children Live in Peace’, 21/09/2015)