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Article: Joint Jewish-Arab summer camp draws record number of kids
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- Jerusalem Post
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- July 27, 1995
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DAVID RUDGE
Jerusalem Post
07-27-1995
A RECORD number of children have registered for a joint Jewish-Arab summer camp in the Galilee, despite the tense atmosphere created by the suicide bomb attack on a bus in Ramat Gan on Monday, organizers of the project said yesterday.
"We have more than 250 children from over a dozen Jewish and Arab towns and villages in the Galilee taking part in the camp this year, more than ever before," said Harry Rhodes, from Moshav Shorashim in the Misgav region, and one of the founders of the project.
Rhodes, director of "Shemesh," a non-profit organization working for coexistence and cooperation between Jews and Arabs, noted that acts of violence and ...