In autumn 2007 more than one hundred peace workers from both Israel and Palestine and many other countries went by foot through the Middle East.

Who, where and how?

The GRACE Pilgrimage – organized in cooperation with the Peace Research Village Association – was led by Sabine Lichtenfels and Benjamin von Mendelssohn (director of the PRV Assoc). The route took them from Eilat on the Red Sea through the Negev desert and the Westbank to Bethlehem and on to Jerusalem. The group of pilgrims was made up of people of all ages. Children too were part of it and two representatives of the threatened and peace-awarded Colombian Peace Village of San Josè de Apartadó also participated. The pilgrims slept under a stary sky and were offered hospitality at various places, like Kibbuzims, Ashrams, military camps, refugee camps, Bedouin villages as well as Israeli settlements and Palestinian towns. They experienced the stillness of the desert, the beauty of the "Holy Land". They were also touched by conflict and separation, by misery, displacement and ignorance.

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