Ester Golan
"I don't think [interfaith work] is rare. But it's not interesting for the newspapers, because when we meet it's not a conflict, so why write about it? When we shoot each other it immediately gets into the news."
As a young girl, Ester Golan escaped from Nazi Germany and lived in an orphanage in England. Her parents were killed in the Holocaust. In 1945 she immigrated to Palestine three years before the state of Israel was established. Ester first became involved in inter-religious meetings in Haifa in the 1970s. Now a great-grandmother living in Jerusalem, she actively continues to participate in interfaith dialogue between Israeli and Palestinian Muslims, Christians and Jews. One of her grandsons was killed as a soldier in Jenin in April 2002.
