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Olive oil without borders

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Published: 9 July 2016

Last updated: 4 March 2024

The report of the Quartet (USA, UN, EU, Russia) published on I July 2016 included the following as one of its ten recommendations: ‘Both parties should foster a climate of tolerance, including through increasing interaction and cooperation in a variety of fields – economic, professional, educational, cultural – that strengthen the foundations for peace and countering extremism.’ The following is another example of people-to-people work with those objectives.

An Olive Peace – YouTube published 25.05.16
Ayala and Khaled are unlikely friends. Ayala's family owns a small olive press just outside Nazareth in northern Israel, where she makes organic olive oil and lives in harmony with the land. Khaled, a Palestinian engineer and olive oil mill expert from outside Nablus in the West Bank, has inherited his father's passion for cultivating the region's ancient olive trees and their fruit. The two met in 2011 through a USAID-backed program that brings together thousands of Israeli and Palestinian growers to share experiences, cultivate better olive oil and promote peace.
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