Meet the New Israeli Board!

Anat Lev Or from Israel, is a mother and spiritual teacher and companion for over 30 years. Anat accompanies people in the process of growth and change, as well as businessmen through spiritual, practical, and business aspects. Anat has been Ghassan Manasra’s partner for 25 years in building projects that are shared by all religions, working as peacemakers and establishing study groups such as a program for teachers and school executives from all religions, Muslims, Christians, and Jews.

Sheikha Najah Kabaha, Nazareth, Co-Chair

Sheikha Umm Bra’a Najah Kabaha is a leader in the Muslim community who lives in the city of Nazareth, the largest Arab city in Israel. She has worked for interfaith understanding and dialogue through the Qadiri Tariqat as-Salaam, the Lights of Peace Society, and the Abrahamic Reunion for many years. She also teaches children and early childhood.

Dr. Khalid is the Imam of Al-IMAN Mosque in Ilut, outside Nazareth, in the North of Israel, an educator, Arabic Language and Literature teacher in High Schools and Secondary Schools, and has worked for YESODOT Center for Torah & Democracy in Jerusalem, Anwar al-Salaam the Lights of Peace Association Founder & Co-Director in Nazareth, Yakar Center in Jerusalem, and many other interfaith and intercultural initiatives over the last 25 years. He has his PhD in Arabic Studies from Bar-Ilan University.

Dvora Haitsook-Shani, Givatayim

Dvora is a fierce believer in narrowing political, national, and religious tensions through cross-religious meetings, discussions, and cultural activity. She is a photographer, curator, and professor and teacher of photography at such places as the College of Geographical Photography, Tel-Aviv Artists House, Tel-Aviv Museum Art School, Beit Ekstein Ramat Gan, Ort Hermelin College, and others. She is happily married and the mother of three children.

Fr. Nael is the Vicar of Nazareth for St. George’s Episcopal Church. He completed his theological studies in Rome At Angelicum/Pontifical University of Thomas Aquinas, and has served churches in Zababdeh (West Bank), East Jerusalem, and Ramallah before returning to his hometown of Nazareth. He has been part of the Abrahamic Reunion for over 10 years, and loves to remind the world that, “God is inclusive!”

Sheikh Ghassan Manasra, International Director of the Abrahamic Reunion, oversees programming in the Holy Land and Internationally since 2015. He was one of the Abrahamic Reunion’s Co-Coordinators in the Holy Land from 2014-2015, before moving to the US with his family, and has been an active contributing Peacemaker with the AR for more than a decade, and in the Holy Land in many organizations for over 35 years.He is an ordained Sheikh in the Qadiri Sufi Order in the Holy Land, and son of Sheikh Abdel Salaam Manasra – head of the Qadiri Sufi Order in the Holy Land. He is the founder of Anwar-Il-Salaam, the Lights of Peace Center in Nazareth, and is Director, Islamic Cultural Center in Nazareth. Ghassan is an expert and lectures in Islam, Islamic history, Sufism, and contemporary Muslim issues in the Middle East, Europe, and the USA. Ghassan@abrahamicreunion.org