building bridges

Young leaders’ summit builds on seeds of Israeli-Moroccan normalization

Sixty young Israelis and Moroccans worked together in Marrakesh last week to build sustainable and cultural bridges between their countries

Tzahi Shemesh

Elad Kakon communicates with non-hearing students during a visit to the class for the deaf at the École de la Princesse Lalla Amina school in Marrakesh, Morocco, on Feb. 28, 2022.

This article first appeared on Jewish Insider.

In a simply decorated classroom on the far side of a dusty schoolyard deep inside Marrakesh’s bustling Medina, or old town, about a dozen Deaf schoolchildren watched with amusement last week...