Dear Sikkuy Friends,

After one year of work advancing implementation of the Or Commission recommendations, Sikkuy and the Or Watch project are holding the second annual conference under the headline: THE DAY AFTER - EQUAL/SHARED CITIZENSHIP BETWEEN JEWS AND ARABS IN ISRAEL. We've arranged SIMULTANEOUS TRANSLATION IN ENGLISH OF ALL OF THE PROCEEDINGS so we hope you'll hold the date and make sure to attend. We're also very excited by the important writers who will attend and speak including: SALMAN NATOUR and AMOS OZ.

The conferences aims:

To focus public attention on the vital need to fully implement the Or Commission recommendations for full equality and review government action and inaction.

To demand equal development between Arabs and Jews.

Participants include:

Sheikh Hashem Abd Al Rahman, mayor of Umm Al Fahm

Dr. Khaled Abu-Asbah, co-chairman, Sikkuy

Safa Abu Rabia, Negev women's coalition

Talal Alkrinawi, mayor of Rahat

David Cohen, head of the southern district, Interior Ministry

Shuli Dichter, co-executive director, Sikkuy

Ali Haider, Adv., co-executive director, Sikkuy

Amram Kalagi, head of the Abu Basma local council

Shawki Khatib, head of the Arab Higher Monitoring Committee

Salman Natour, playwright

Amos Oz, author

Moshe Paul, head of the B'nai Shimon Regional Council

MK Ophir Pines-Paz, Interior Minister

Aida Touma-Sliman, human rights activist, founder/director of Women Against Violence

The conference will be held at the Rahat Community Center ("Matnas") next to the Rahat municipality on Tuesday, September 6 from 16:00 - 21:00

We hope you'll save the date and make plans to attend. For further information please feel free to contact me.

Sincerely,

Carl Perkal

Director of Resource Development

Sikkuy

054-5889490