The Impact of Hamas’s October 7th Terror Attack on Israeli Arabs

When Hamas perpetrated the worst terrorist attack in Israel’s history on October 7th 2023, it targeted not only Jews, but also Israeli Arabs. Among those killed by Hamas on October 7th was Awad Darawsheh, a 23 year-old paramedic, who was working at the Nova Music Festival, when the terrorists struck. In this webinar, Amichai Magen, a Visiting Fellow in Israel Studies at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, talks with Awad’s first cousin, Mohammed Darawshe, about the impact of October 7th and the subsequent war on Israeli Arabs and the prospects of Israeli-Palestinian peace. Mohammed Darawshe is the Director of Strategy at the Shared Society Center of the Givat Haviva Educational Center in the Galilee, and a faculty member of the Shalom Hartman Institute. He is widely consulted as a leading expert on Jewish-Arab relations. The introduction of this webinar has been edited to omit Zoom webinar Q&A instructions and other housekeeping details.