CIHEAM Press Review

The har­vest was car­ried out at the Olive Tree of Peace in Palermo, Sicily, a few weeks after the regional super­in­ten­dent declared it a cul­tural inter­est site.
A trib­ute to judge and pros­e­cut­ing mag­is­trate Paolo Borsellino, who is con­sid­ered one of the most impor­tant per­son­al­i­ties in the fight against orga­nized crime in Italy and inter­na­tion­ally, the tree stands as a sym­bol of regen­er­a­tion, sol­i­dar­ity, peace, civil com­mit­ment and jus­tice.

Stooping under the weight of his body armour but uncowed by the threat of violence, Rabbi Arik Ascherman guards an olive grove in the occupied West Bank, protecting Palestinian farmers from rising Israeli settler violence.
"There is no excuse, there is no explanation, no justification for what Hamas did" in its October 7 attacks on southern Israel, said the 64-year-old, a veteran activist with the Rabbis for Human Rights group.