{"id":23319,"date":"2020-11-30T17:05:06","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T15:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dialogtogether.com\/shared-living-at-sea-arabs-and-jews-surfing-together\/"},"modified":"2020-12-30T11:32:33","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T09:32:33","slug":"shared-living-at-sea-arabs-and-jews-surfing-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.dialogtogether.com\/en\/shared-living-at-sea-arabs-and-jews-surfing-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Coexistence at sea \u2013 Arabs and Jews surfing together"},"content":{"rendered":"

Omer and Yaron met during their academic studies and became the best of friends. While sharing their hobby of surfing and their studies, they came up with the idea to combine their two loves, educating at-risk youth and surfing and started a foundation called \u2018My Wave\u2019 (HaGal Sheli.) Based on the belief that empowering young people will enable them to \u2018ride the wave\u2019 and succeed in life. They began by volunteering to teach 10 teenagers for a year, and continued through falling in love, committing, leaving their jobs, taking out loans and buying secure surfing equipment and insurance \u2013 and to this day, their organization teaches over one hundred groups every year, they have 3800 alumni and more than 1000 at-risk youth joining every year in three centers along the Israeli shoreline \u2013 Bat Yam, Tel-Aviv \u2013 Yaffo and Kfar Galim. Omer and Yaron wanted to help youth expose their inner strength by experiencing the might of the sea and waves and learn from this how to face life\u2019s challenges. The process is unique and is built on successful experiences. Although surfing is individual, it also has a group aspect of is being part of a crew. On the one hand, the sea has healing power, and on the other hand, it\u2019s challenging and can teach and encourage achieving some insights about handling life.<\/span><\/p>\n

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