"But most of all I am struck by how open and enthusiastic they are to forge friendships with those who are not like them and that this must be one of the central lessons of Oct. 7.One image of thousands of potential ones sticks in my mind. Two young women, arms around each other, smiling. One is Noa, a member of our community in Tel Aviv. The other is Bar, a mother of two from Kibbutz Nir Am. They have been paired together through our initiative which matches individuals between the two communities each helping the other with their Hebrew or English language skills and just generally sharing life together.But who are they?Noa made aliyah from New York to Tel Aviv less than six months ago, moving her life across the ocean and throwing herself into a new culture.Bar is the commanding officer of the Sderot police station who fought for hours in the infamous battle there on Oct. 7."

"One image of thousands of potential ones sticks in my mind. Two young women, arms around each other, smiling. One is Noa, a member of our community in Tel Aviv. The other is Bar, a mother of two from Kibbutz Nir Am. They have been paired together through our initiative which matches individuals between the two communities each helping the other with their Hebrew or English language skills."

"With evacuees from Kiryat Shmona and Sderot, with Druze from the Galil, with Bedouins in the Negev and with our twinned community of Kibbutz Nir Am who were attacked on Oct. 7."

"With evacuees from Kiryat Shmona and Sderot, with Druze from the Galil, with Bedouins in the Negev and with our twinned community of Kibbutz Nir Am who were attacked on Oct. 7."

"With evacuees from Kiryat Shmona and Sderot, with Druze from the Galil, with Bedouins in the Negev and with our twinned community of Kibbutz Nir Am who were attacked on Oct. 7."

"With evacuees from Kiryat Shmona and Sderot, with Druze from the Galil, with Bedouins in the Negev and with our twinned community of Kibbutz Nir Am who were attacked on Oct. 7..."