Awards/Recognition
- In acknowledgement of IEA's work, UNESCO has recognized the IEA as an organization that is contributing to the culture of peace and as an actor of the global movement for a culture of peace (a United Nations initiative).
- Prize for Humanity (February 2006): Awarded to the IEA and its executive director Yehuda Stolov. As described, this award honors those who risked all to protect others of a different faith or ethnic origin.
- Women's Peace Initiative Award (October 2007): Awarded to Ms. Najeeba Sirhan and Ms. Osnat Aram-Daphna, the coordinators of the Karmiel & Majd el-Krum Interfaith Encounter group, for being selected as the recipients of the Women’s Peace Initiative Award of the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding.
- INTR°A-Project Award for the Complementation of Religions (Oct, 2007): Awarded to the IEA, included a substantial monetary grant.
- The film Interfaith Encounter in the Galilee, produced by IEA to present the work of its school-twinning project, was awarded the Commendable Effort at the Second World Peace Film & Music Festival by the World Movement for Global Democracy.
- In May 2008, the IEA was one of the sixty projects, selected as the entrepreneurial projects that will change the face of tomorrow to present at the Israeli Presidential Conference – one of only eleven social projects and the only project of peaceful coexistence.
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