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The Possibility of Peace

Rula Hardal is the co-executive director of A Land for All. Hardal is a research fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, the Jerusalem Van Leer Institute and the Forum for Regional Thinking. She has taught political science and social work at Al-Quds University in East Jerusalem, the Arab American University in Ramallah, University of Osaka in Japan and University of Lisbon in Portugal. Hardal is an activist in several initiatives to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a board member of Adalah – the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, based in Haifa. She also serves as a political commentator on local and international television channels.

May Pundak is the co-executive director of A Land for All. A feminist lawyer, activist and social entrepreneur, Pundak has worked at the New Israel Fund, directed the Polyphony Foundation, helped establish a legal team to support political struggles in East Jerusalem and co-founded an educational dialogue group program for Jewish and Palestinian teenagers in West and East Jerusalem. Pundak is a graduate of the Mandel School of Educational Leadership and a graduate of Harvard University's Leadership, Community Organization and Activism course. She holds a degree in public and international law, with an emphasis on human rights, from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.