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Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam (the "Oasis of Peace" in Hebrew and Arabic) is the only community in Israel where Jews ans Palestinians choose to live, work and raise their children in equality and mutual respect. The village started with a handful of individuals in the 1970s and is now home to 60 families - half Jewish, half Palestinian. More than 300 families are on a waiting-list, hoping to join the community in the near future. In the United States, the American Friends of Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam was created in the 1980s to provide support to the Oasis of Peace and awareness to the American public.