Yonatan Zeigen, who lost his mother Vivian Silver in the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas-led attack in southern Israel, says his goal in life is to decrease the overall pain and suffering in the region – not to avenge the murder of his mother.

At midday on April 29, the eve of Memorial Day, a message inviting the masses to take part in an urgent demonstration was disseminated via social media, under the heading: “We won’t allow the supporters of terrorism to meet in Ra’anana.”

Yonatan Zeigen’s mother was an Israeli Canadian peace activist, Vivian Silver. She was murdered at her home on the 7th of October 2023. That incident woke Yonatan from what he calls a political coma.

Dozens of Jewish philanthropists from around the world have written to Israel’s Foreign Minister protesting legislation designed to limit international funding of human rights organisations.

The 20th Israeli-Palestinian Joint Memorial Ceremony for peace and reconciliation took place on Tuesday 28 April and contained deeply moving contributions from a number of bereaved family members from both Israeli and Arab communities, who have suffered grievous losses due to the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine.

Bassam Aramin, a Palestinian who lives in the West Bank, and Rami Elhanan, a resident of Jerusalem and Israeli citizen, are two men predestined to hate each other. Instead, they were united through the unimaginable — the death of a child.

Peace activist tirelessly promotes dialog between Israelis and Palestinians — and protests the Netanyahu government, which she holds accountable for her soldier son’s death on Oct. 7

Last week, thousands of Israelis and Palestinians — along with viewers around the world — came together to remember, grieve, and call for peace.