{"id":2879,"date":"2010-01-14T07:39:58","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T14:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=2879"},"modified":"2010-01-14T07:47:27","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T14:47:27","slug":"peter-yarrow-brings-operation-respect-to-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=2879","title":{"rendered":"Peter Yarrow Brings &#8220;Operation Respect&#8221; to Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Yarrow returns to Israel, bringing his message of compassion with a unique program \u201cOperation Respect\u201d that will be introduced in Israeli schools as a pilot program. Inspired by a song, \u201cDon\u2019t Laugh at Me,\u201d the program, co-directed by Yarrow and Dr. Charlotte Frank, Senior Vice President of McGraw Hill, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.operationrespect.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Operation Respect <\/a>seeks to address the problem of violence in schools through music, developing an atmosphere of mutual respect and tolerance, where children can feel safe.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The renowned American folk singer, of the trio \u201cPeter Paul and Mary,\u201d will perform with singers David Broza and Amal Murkus on January 19, in front of Jewish and Arab students in Lod, where the program to fight school violence will be implemented as a pilot program.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Yarrow visited Israel last April, travelling to schools and other venues, meeting with Israeli educators to discuss the possibility of introducing \u201cOperation Respect\u201d in Israel. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=363\" target=\"_blank\">Midnight East met with Yarrow <\/a>at the Jerusalem Cinematheque, where he performed and described the program, which at the time, may have sounded to some like a na\u00efve dream. Yet Yarrow\u2019s dedication to the project, and the rapport he established with the children through his music, inspire hope.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2880\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2880\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/AD2647s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2880\" title=\"AD2647s\" src=\"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/AD2647s-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/AD2647s-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/AD2647s.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2880\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peter Yarrow\/Photo: Matty Stern<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cOperation Respect\u201d has met with success both in the US and other countries, such as Hong Kong, and will be implemented in Israel by the Center for Educational Technology (CET) which adopted it for the Israeli school system in cooperation with the Ministry of Education. The details of the program, in Arabic and Hebrew, may be found on this site: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/itu.cet.ac.il\/respect\/\">http:\/\/itu.cet.ac.il\/respect\/<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Midnight East will continue to follow Peter Yarrow and \u201cOperation Respect\u201d in Israel, \u201cwith peace as the song in our heart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Image credit: Peter Yarrow in performance at the Jerusalem Cinematheque\/Photo: Mordechai Malca<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Yarrow returns to Israel, bringing his message of compassion with a unique program \u201cOperation Respect\u201d that will be introduced in Israeli schools as a pilot program. Inspired by a song, \u201cDon\u2019t Laugh at Me,\u201d the program, co-directed by Yarrow and Dr. Charlotte Frank, Senior Vice President of McGraw Hill, Operation Respect seeks to address [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}