For reconciliation and dialogue

This year we’ll be holding The Israeli-Palestinian Joint Memorial Day Ceremony for the 16th time. As we do every year, we’ll meet in the place where personal memories and longing succeed in overcoming fear, and creating a shared act of compassion – thus marking a new path towards a future in which we won’t have to live by our sword, and instead, we could look at a better future for all.
This year the Ceremony will be live streamed on Memorial Day, April 13, at 8:30 pm (Israel time), from Israel and Palestine.
Last year’s Ceremony crossed the separation lines and reached the hearts of 200,000 viewers all over the world. This year we want to touch even more.
So once more we turn to you, our partners, to take part and help in covering the costs of the event.
Donate and be a part of the call for creating a life based on conversing and mutual understanding.

24 Israeli and Palestinian women from the Parents Circle – Families Forum present a dried flower to the Vice President of the United States, Kamala Harris, in honor of International Women’s Day, on March 8th.
Every women dried a flower in the name of their lost loved one, and glued it into a hand-made album. Added to this gesture is a letter with a message of hope, that the Biden administration will revive negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians.

If you have lost a family member due to the conflict, and you are also tired of the never ending cycle of loss of life, we would like to see you with us. Together, we will continue to work to prevent further bereavement, to create dialogue, reconciliation and peace.

The bereaved Palestinian and Israeli members of The Parents Circle – Families Forum will mark this day by planting 10 Olive trees both in the West Bank near Hebron and in Kibbutz Ramat Rahel , near Jerusalem. Each of these trees is dedicated to an Israeli or a Palestinian immediate family member who lost their life in the conflict and whose family belong to the group. Each year we intend to celebrate Tu BeShvat in this way until we can create a forest of reconciliation and peace.

An Israeli and a Palestinian, who tell their personal stories of bereavement and explain their choice to engage in dialogue instead of revenge.
Over the years, PCFF has conducted almost 7,000 dialogue meetings, with more than 200,000 very moved people in the audience.If you too would like to be a part of promoting peace and reconciliation, you’re welcome to arrange dialogue meetings in your home, in your workplace, in the community center near you, or anywhere you’d like. Just call us and we’ll arrive.

Every PCFF member has lost someone to the conflict who was their entire universe. Here you can read the personal stories of Forum members, about their loved ones who are no longer present, about the journey from pain to hope and about choosing reconciliation and partnership.

To get to know the personal and national narrative of the “other”, as an important step towards reconciliation between the peoples. So far, during the nine years of the project, 40 groups have been conducted.