Jewish Instructors Teach Arab Women Self-Defense in Jerusalem

(Ha'aretz) Julia Niemann - In a five-week self-defense course for women run by Arab women in Wadi Joz in eastern Jerusalem, the two female instructors and the three men serving as mock attackers are Jewish, while the participants are Palestinians. Sahra, 37, a mother of three, definitely wants to send her daughter to one of those workshops, initiated by the women's nonprofit self-defense organization El Halev, once she's old enough. And how did she feel about being taught by Jewish Israelis? "They're great."


2011-12-27 00:00:00

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