The Abraham Fund awarded $1 million in grants to 62 groups advancing Jewish-Arab coexistence in Israel. At a ceremony this week near Tel Aviv, the fund’s chairman, New York businessman Alan Slifka, said the fund is “accelerating its advocacy efforts this year to increase Arabic study in the school system, lobby the government to do more and to have an impact on public opinion.”
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