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How Carlos Santana is helping to promote coexistence in Israel

Carlos Santana will transfer part of his Tel Aviv concert benefits to the Hand in Hand network of Jewish-Arab joint schools in Israel.
Musician Carlos Santana (L) performs during a concert at the Starlite Festival in Marbella, southern Spain, July 24, 2016. REUTERS/Jon Nazca - RTSJFY7
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Carlos Santana, one of the world’s greatest guitarists, performed July 30 in Tel Aviv’s Ganei Yehoshua Park. But before his concert began, screens on the sides of the stage lit up and a film produced by the Hand in Hand Foundation was displayed to the 25,000 fans who filled the area.

“When our children grow up in a strife-ridden region, when Jews don’t meet Arabs and the reverse, how can we ensure that the children won’t grow up to hate?” someone in the film asked. Two children in the film waved a poster on which was written, in Arabic and Hebrew, “Bring them to the same classroom.”

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