Siham Halabi is a Druze leader and the Director of the Women’s Program and Adult Education at the Daliat Al Carmel Community Center providing courses in women’s economic empowerment, home management, drivers education, Hebrew and Arabic languages, social activism, and interfaith understanding. She is a Coordinator of the TRUST WIN, a member of the  Women’s Parliament and various orgaizations for dialogue and understanding between the cultures, and for the advancement of women and social issues affecting women.  She is a Druze spokeswoman representing Druze women in national forums.

Sheikh Abed Alsalam Manasra is the Israeli Programs Director for the Abrahamic Reunion. He is an ordained Sheikh in the Tariqat Qadriyya As-Salaam (Qadiri Sufi Order Of Peace in the Holy Land), in which his father is also a Sheikh, and his Grandfather, Abdelsalam Manasra, is the Head Sheikh. He is a musician, performing classical Arabic and Sufi music and hymns with his wife, and works with young adults and youth to organize interfaith dialogue and gatherings in and around Nazareth. Abed@abrahamicreunion.org

David Less is a global teacher of meditation, conflict resolution and inter-faith dialog of over forty years. For over a decade he has been the Global Dean of the Universal Worship, an organization in over thirty countries,that honors the commonality in all religions and appreciates and respects the differences. He started promoting understanding rather than blame as a path to peace in the Holy Land in 2000 and was one of the founders of the Abrahamic Reunion shortly thereafter.

Mohamad Jamous is the Palestinian Programs Director of the Abrahamic Reunion. He is a young Peacemaker living in Jericho, Palestine, coordinating programs, interfaith events, peace journeys, and intra-Palestine peacemaking events to build the movement for peace since 2017. He is a currently a KAICIID Fellow, and is one of the great emerging multi-faith peacemaking leaders in the Holy Land.

Sana Albaz is a leader among Bedouin Muslim women in Israel. Sana has won numerous awards for her work in early childhood education among Bedouin youth. The educational center she founded in her town of Tel Sheva has served as a model for dis-advantaged youth throughout the Bedouin sector in Israel. She was awarded the highest honor by the State of Israel for her work, the first Bedouin woman invited to light the national torch at the annual Independence Day celebration at Mount Herzl, Jerusalem.

Dr. Anna Less, PhD, co-founded the Abrahamic Reunion in 2004. She is a peacemaker, speaker, and presenter, and is the International Co Director of the Abrahamic Reunion. As a young woman, Anna realized her life work lay with healing, and bringing harmony and balance to both individuals and communities. She was the first westerner to receive a PhD from the prestigious Zheijiang Medical University in Hangzhou, China, where she lived for four years. She has taught in medical colleges and presented seminars around the world on the principles healing.

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Deacon Jiries Mansour is a Christian Arab, deacon in the Greek Catholic Church, and principal of St Anthony’s middle school in the town of Rama (Rame) in the Galilee. Under Jiries’ leadership, a new school has been developed in Rama promoting interfaith tolerance. He has also organized numerous youth interfaith projects and events. Jiries is currently finishing his doctorate on the role of Christians in peace in the Middle East.

Sheikh Hussein Abu Rukun is a recognized leader and spokesperson for the Druze faith in the Holy Land. He is the chairman of the Druze Trustees and founder of the Association for the Preservation of the Druze Heritage.  He represents his religion at national and international inter-religious meetings. Sheikh Abu Rukun is frequently called upon to help resolve conflicts in his hometown of Issifya, near Haifa and in Northern Israel. Sheikh Abu Rukun led a delegation of Druze leaders to India to meet with Hindu, Sikh and Buddhist leaders for an encounter with the Eastern religions.

Elias Jabbour is an Arab Christian and founder of the House of Hope Peace Center in Shefar’Am (Shefer Amer) Israel. He is widely known for his work with ‘Sulha,’ a traditional Palestinian peacemaking process. In 1993 he received the International Courage of Conscience Award and in 1995 he received the Mount Zion Award for promoting interfaith dialogue.

Ibtisam Mahameed is a religious Muslim woman from the city of Fureidis in northern Israel. She is an activist for peaceful Arab-Jewish co-existence and founder and director of Women Reborn, a social empowerment program for Arab women. Ibtisam has been named by His Holiness the Dalai Lama as a 2009 “Unsung Hero of Compassion.”

Rabbinit Hadassah Froman is an Orthodox Jewish woman peacemaker, from the West Bank settlement of Tekoa. She is the wife of the late Rabbi Menachem Froman, who was a pioneer in Jewish-Muslim peacemaking in the West Bank settlements. Full Bio

Zainab Manasra is an Abrahamic Reunion Youth Leader from Nazareth, Israel. She is Muslim and grew up steeped in a culture of peacemaking, multi-faith dialogue, and bridge-building across cultures, identities, and religions, participating in the programs of her father Sheikh Ghassan Manasra and learning the art of facilitation from him from an early age. She has been part of programs through her High School, The Sulha Project, Jerusalem Peacemakers, Lights of Peace Society of Nazareth, Abrahamic Reunion, and other multifaith projects for the last ten years. She is passionate about working with other youth and young adults, and has traveled with the AR to speak at events and presentations in the UK, Germany, Israel, and the US.

Christopher Miller is a Healing Cherag (Minister) of the Universal Worship, a prime contributor to the Abrahamic Reunion, and Chair of the Inayati Sufi Young Adult Council. He has had the profound blessing of studying very closely with, and as assistant to Shahabuddin David Less and works in the realms of peace making in the Middle East, interfaith ministry, as a published writer and as a teacher of Universal Sufism and meditation in varied camps, workshops, and services.

After growing up in Vancouver, Canada; Honolulu, Hawaii and San Diego, California, Raanan made Aliya in 2000. He has a B.A. in History of the Jewish People from Hebrew University (2006) where he focused on the Jewish experience under Islam. He obtained a Masters in Education from Hebrew College in Newton Center, Massachusetts (2008) and a Certificate of Advanced Judaic Studies from the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies (2008). Raanan has teacher certifications in Israel, Canada and the United States and has been formally teaching Jewish Studies in North America and Israel for over eight years. He is currently working on his Rabbinical ordination from the Schechter Rabbinical Seminary in Jerusalem (2018). Recent initiatives that Raanan has been involved in include: being an interfaith scholar and events coordinator (Praying Together in Jerusalem) for the Tantur Ecumenical Institute, being part of the Palestinian and Israeli Emerging Leaders Program of the Outward Bound Center for Peacebuilding and Search for Common Ground, a dialogue facilitator for Hands of Peace, a conference organizer for the Abrahamic Reunion as well as continuing to teach all age groups about Judaism. Raanan also hosts a radio show called Shalom Crafters which brings attention to the work of interfaith activists in the Holy Land. Raanan blogs at: https://shalomcrafter.weebly.com/

Sheikh Abdul Aziz Bukhari was a founding member of the Abrahamic Reunion and a pillar of interfaith peace activism in Israel. He died on May 31, 2010. The Uzbeki Cultural Center in Jerusalem, which he founded, is home to a collection of historically significant Islamic documents and artifacts. His wife Hala and his son Izzedin plan to keep the center open and to continue Sheikh Bukari’s legacy of interfaith work.

Rabbi Menachem Froman was an Orthodox rabbi from the West Bank settlement of Tekoa. He had been active for years in high level political negotiations between Israel and Palestine. Rabbi Froman was one of the initiators of the Alexandria interfaith peace accords which were supported by Palestinian Authority, Israel and Egypt.