Education for International Understanding - Moshe Kol - May 1984

Moshe Kol

Moshe Kol, Past Minister of Tourism and Development - After the War of Independence in Israel in 1948-49, I had a dream to develop cooperation and promote friendship between Jewish and Arab youths in the newborn state of Israel. I wanted to work toward the elimination of the hatreds that had developed during the war. We had to begin anew- to build bridges between Jews and Arabs, to foster mutual understanding and knowledge of our different cultures. At that time I served as world head of Youth Aliyah, a movement created to rescue and rehabilitate Jewish children who had miraculously survived the Holocaust in Europe, and those who had lived under adverse conditions in the North African and Arab countries, where tension was created between the Jewish and non-Jewish population after the War of Independence. To implement my dream, I envisioned a center to be established for the educational and cultural programs that would be developed toward this goal. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library