At the height of the painful clashes between Arabs and Jews last week, thousands of Arab and Jewish citizens, including public figures, participated in joint activities held by civil society organizations in Israeli cities and beyond. What is special about these events is that they are taking place even “while the cannons roar,” concurrently with the riots and the assaults, particularly in the country’s mixed Jewish-Arab communities. This fact is a cause for hope. In the past, only a small number of these activities happened at the same time as the hostilities, with most of them occurring only