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OneVoice in the Media

Some Recent Press Items ... in English, Arabic, Hebrew, and Russian
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PANET
Novosty Nideli
Vesty
IsraLand
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Washington Jewish Week
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Al Ayyam
Al Quds
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OneVoice on TV & on the Radio
Al Jazeera – live coverage of OVP Farmer’s Event in Bidou, 19 April 2007
Reuters TV – live coverage of OVI Saudi Initiative Awareness Campaign, 11 April 2007
Al Arabia – coverage of OVP Farmer’s Event in Bidou, 19 April 2007
Dubai TV – coverage of OVP Farmer’s Event in Bidou, 19 April 2007
Egypt TV – coverage of OVP Farmer’s Event in Bidou, 19 April 2007
Kuwait TV – coverage of OVP Farmer’s Event in Bidou, 19 April 2007
Radio All for Peace – interview with Gil Shamy & Nisreen Shaheen, February 2007
Radio All for Peace – interview with Sagi Rasmovitz & Dalia Labadi, March 2007
Channel 10 – Israel – OVI interview with Koby Oz, March 2007
Dubai Now – TV – OVP interview, Nisreen Shaheen, 8 April 2007
Angham Radio – radio interview for OVP Farmer’s Event in Bidou, 19 April 2007
Amwag Radio – radio interview for OVP Farmer’s Event in Bidou, 19 April 2007
Ajyal Radio – radio interview for OVP Farmer’s Event in Bidou, 19 April 2007
Palestine Radio– “Sawt Filastin” – radio interview for OVP Farmer’s Event in Bidou, 19 April 2007
Bethlehem 2000 Radio – radio interview for OVP Farmer’s Event in Bidou, 19 April 2007
Palestine National TV – coverage of OVP Farmer’s Event in Bidou, 19 April 2007
Watan TV – coverage of OVP Farmer’s Event in Bidou, 19 April 2007

all items will be made available on our multimedia webpage: http://assets.onevoicemovement.org

OneVoice at Davos
Jerusalem Post
Maan News Agency
YNet News
Al-Ayyam
The Economist Intelligence Unit
The Daily Forward
The Guardian
Haaretz / The Marker
Israel 21c 
European Jewish Press (EJP) 
Something Jewish
GoodNews Network
MidEast Web
The Hill
Yahoo! News

Some Blog Entries on OneVoice at Davos
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Website down for maintenance

Our website will be down for a scheduled maintenance from 7am to 11 am EST on Tuesday, April 17, 2007.

Meanwhile, please take the time to read our blog and visit our Multimedia Portal

OneVoice in Gaza, at WEF, and on the Web: What Are You Willing to Do To End the Conflict?

OneVoice is off to a strong start in 2007. Here are some of our highlights so far:

• OneVoice Announces New Gaza Headquarters

• Watch King Abdullah in OneVoice Eye-Opener viewed by Hundreds of Thousands on YouTube, Yahoo, OneVoice website, winning 26 honors during first week of launch

• OneVoice Featured at World Economic Forum in Davos: Re-Cap
-------> Watch the statements that caused so much commotion – click here
-------> Read the Summary of the Event – click here
-------> Learn about the Impact thus far – click here

• Palestinian & Israeli Women Express What They Are Willing to Do to End the Conflict

We will also share with you a media update shortly.

OneVoice Announces New Gaza Headquarters

After months of preparations, planning, and grassroots work, OneVoice is proud to officially announce its new Gaza office, opened in the late fall of 2006.

In the past, OneVoice Palestine conducted activities in Gaza through its West Bank office. However, the increased restrictions on people’s movement between the West Bank and Gaza often prevented our Ramallah-based staff and activists from traveling to Gaza, making it necessary for the movement to redouble its efforts and deepen its activism in order to advance its mission of ending the conflict through a two-state solution.

Amidst a challenging situation on the ground, the opening of the Gaza office will enable OneVoice Palestine to further its outreach and broaden its youth leadership development program to highlight the imperative of civic society’s non-violent but assertive engagement toward ending the occupation. Gaza’s team includes:

• [Name Withheld for Security Purposes] OneVoice Gaza Executive Director

• [Name Withheld for Security Purposes] OneVoice Gaza Director for Leadership Development

• [Name Withheld for Security Purposes] OneVoice Gaza Executive Secretary

The new office has faced many challenges, but the staff is dedicated and determined to carry out the OneVoice mission in Gaza.

OneVoice Eye Opener Video Wins 26 Honors on YouTube

Within the first few days of being featured on YouTube, the OneVoice “Eye Opener” Video garnered a ton of attention – being rated by 1,000 people, and winning 26 honors! To date, the video has been viewed on YouTube over 274,000 times (and counting!) The video was also featured on Yahoo! Videos, and has since been viewed over 16,000 times.

These honors include:

* two consecutive weeks of being the #1 Top Rated video in “News and Blogs” category
* two consecutive weeks of being the #3 Most Viewed video in “News & Blogs”
* being chosen as the #1 Top Rated “Recently Featured” video
* several weeks running as the #3 Most Discussed video in “News & Blogs”
* one week of being the #7 Top Rated video out of all categories!

To view and rate the video on YouTube, please click here.
To view and rate the video on Yahoo!, please click here.

The complete list of all 26 YouTube Honors:

#33 - Most Viewed (This Week) - All
#3 - Most Viewed (This Week) - News & Blogs - All
#28 - Most Viewed (This Week) - English
#3 - Most Viewed (This Week) - News & Blogs - English
#36 - Most Viewed (This Month) - News & Blogs - All
#28 - Most Viewed (This Month) - News & Blogs - English
#7 - Top Rated (This Week) - All
#1 - Top Rated (This Week) - News & Blogs - All
#7 - Top Rated (This Week) - English
#1 - Top Rated (This Week) - News & Blogs - English
#13 - Top Rated (This Month) - News & Blogs - All
#13 - Top Rated (This Month) - News & Blogs - English
#12 - Most Discussed (This Week) - All
#3 - Most Discussed (This Week) - News & Blogs - All
#11 - Most Discussed (This Week) - English
#3 - Most Discussed (This Week) - News & Blogs - English
#14 - Most Discussed (This Month) - News & Blogs - All
#11 - Most Discussed (This Month) - News & Blogs - English
#22 - Top Favorites (This Week) - All
#2 - Top Favorites (This Week) - News & Blogs - All
#21 - Top Favorites (This Week) - English
#2 - Top Favorites (This Week) - News & Blogs - English
#10 - Top Favorites (This Month) - News & Blogs - All
#10 - Top Favorites (This Month) - News & Blogs - English
#46 - Most Linked (This Week) - News & Blogs - All
#11 - Recently Featured - All
#1 - Recently Featured - News & Blogs - All

World Economic Forum Davos Re-Cap: Read the Summary of the Event

At the World Economic Forum in Davos this past January, over 1,000 OneVoice activists – Israelis and Palestinians – put their questions, demands and intent via video links from Jerusalem, Ramallah and Tel Aviv at once to President Abbas, Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Tzipi Livni and Vice-Premier Shimon Peres.

It was a rare bringing together of leadership from both sides and set a great precedent for civil society to unite and hold accountable their political leaders. President Abbas alluded to the importance of momentum – referencing his recent meeting with Prime Minister Olmert and saying “we are ready, as of now, to start serious negotiations with our Israeli neighbours”.

Livni remarked on OneVoice's youth leaders: “whilst watching …OneVoice's youth I felt a mixture of sadness and hope. Sadness at so many opportunities lost, and hope in these young people for the future. They gave us hope, and our responsibility as leaders is to give them hope in return”.

Both Minister Livni and President Abbas outlined their starting negotiating positions for a two state solution and their will to see this process through. There have been many false starts and false promises in the Middle East, however, and OneVoice's task is now greater than ever to make sure leaders deliver.

All this took place amongst 2,000 global leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos and has been picked up by press worldwide. 274,000 have already watched the OneVoice video featured on YouTube.

To read the full press release, please click here.

World Economic Forum Davos Re-Cap: Learn about the Impact Thus Far

* Millions saw coverage of the WEF session on Al Jazeera, BBC, and numerous local, national, and world news providers

* Hundreds of thousands downloaded and watched OneVoice’s videos

* Thousands of people signed on to the movement through the website and local outreach on the ground in Israel and Palestine

* In the weeks after WEF, OneVoice website received thousands of visitors on a daily basis … from all over the world: the United States, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Egypt, Europe, Mexico, Argentina, Venezuela, Brazil … not to mention Israel and Palestine

* Videos gain thousands of “direct hits” from people emailing and forwarding the video to friends and family

* The WEF session brought leaders together, and causing atmosphere of positive momentum and inspiring a renewed hope in the potential for resolution

* Global leaders at the WEF begin to discuss the possibility for WEF in Jerusalem in the future

* OneVoice Eye Opener garners 26 Video Honors on YouTube!

* Helped catalyze a worldwide, internet based discussion about the conflict and working for a resolution … on blogs, on YouTube, on Yahoo, and on news “talk back” websites:

* Over 600 blogs discuss the OneVoice WEF session

* Eye Opener Video viewed 274,000 times on YouTube and 16,000 times on Yahoo!

* Created an upsurge of feedback and support for the movement

* Media Round-Up: Maan News Agency, Al Jazeera, YNet, the Economist and more cover the events at Davos, pushing the movement into the public eye – press and media coverage details to follow in the next update!

Palestinian & Israeli Women Express What They Are Willing to Do to End the Conflict

At the end of February and beginning of March, OneVoice organized parallel events in Palestine and Israel focused on the role of women in ending the conflict.

At the refugee camp in Jenin, OneVoice Palestine gathered around 200 women for the event. There, they expressed their willingness to participate for the sake of their children and the freedom of their people, and sent a message to all Israeli women asking for the same dedication and partnership in ending the conflict.

In parallel, OneVoice Israel hosted a women’s event in Tel Aviv. As in Jenin, the Israeli women discussed the necessity of working toward a two-state solution and an end to the conflict. Both the Palestinian and the Israeli events are part of OneVoice’s ongoing “What Are You Willing to Do?” Campaign which seeks to mobilize Israelis and Palestinians on a monthly basis, each time highlighting a different constituency.

To view photos from the events, please click here.

OneVoice Palestine on Dubai Now- TV!

We are glad to inform you that Dubai Now- TV will be broadcasting an interview with OneVoice-Palestine Executive Director and a documentary report about the “What’s Your Role (to end the conflict)" campaign that is being conducting by OneVoice, in the following dates:

-On Sunday April the 8th, at 9:15 pm, an interview with Nisreen Shaheen.

-On Monday April the 9th, at 9:15 pm, a documentary about the campaign.

Stay Tuned!