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Encounter Point Screened to over 450 Students and the Hand in Hand Community in Israel
March 5, 2010

In February, Encounter Point screened before two communities including teachers and parents of the Hand in Hand School in Kfar Kara.  Both Mr. Nasi Musrwah, Head of the Kfar Kara Local Council, and Mr. Ori Distenik, Head of the Binyamina-Givat Ada Local Council, attended the event. The screening was followed by a discussion panel which included film protagonists: George and Najwa Sa'adeh, Ayelet and Tzvika Shahak and Shlomo Zagman.  Another screening took place in Hod Hasharon after which Tzvika and George were interviewed for Radio A Shams.

Encounter Point was also screened during the past month before some 450 12th grade students from Dror Regional High School followed by a discussion with George Sa'adeh, Tzvika Shahak and Just Vision’s Anat Langer-Gal.   Forty 18-year old students from the Nachson Pre-Army Preparatory Program, youth of the Bnei Hamoshavim Youth Movement, as well as Communications students at the Achva Academic College also watched the film.

Encounter Point clips featured on Al Jazeera
February 23, 2010

Sunday, 21st at 3:30AM, 2:30PM, 10:30PM EST, Al Jazeera International will broadcast a 10-minute segment from Encounter Point, featuring Robi Damelin of the Parents Circle-Families Forum alongside excerpts from the film Mother Courage about Israeli women's group Machsom Watch (Checkpoint Watch).