John Kiss
At the age of eleven, Kiss was selected, along with a dozen Israeli students with interest in the arts, to attend a peace art camp in the Palestinian city of Nablus. It was there that Kiss encountered Palestinian children face to face for the first time. "That was the day my life began to get complicated," he later said. "Suddenly, there was no more black and white." The art camp experience developed his passion for peacemaking, seeing the power of art in creating bridges and reconciliation. At age 13 he joined the Jewish-Arab youth movement Sadaka Reut and began studying Arabic.