{"id":459,"date":"2014-09-08T23:12:05","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T23:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/?page_id=459"},"modified":"2016-06-26T14:21:29","modified_gmt":"2016-06-26T11:21:29","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/about-us","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Peace Now\u00a0is the largest and longest-standing Israeli movement advocating for peace.<\/strong> Under the mission of arriving at peace agreements between Israel and its neighbors, Peace Now\u00a0currently works to ensure Israelis embrace the only viable solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: two states and the creation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel.\u00a0Peace Now&#8217;s activities include demonstrations, calls for action, lectures, debates, tours, public campaigns and more. Through these activities Peace Now\u00a0seeks to educate the public, represent the portion of the public that shares its views, mobilize it and as a result influence the mainstream Israeli public \u2013 all out of a strong conviction that politicians are susceptible to public pressure. Peace Now\u2019s activities are meant to ensure that issues related to Israeli Palestinian peace remain on top of the political agenda and the public discourse.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In\u00a0the early 1990s, after identifying settlements as one of the largest obstacles to the two state solution, Peace Now\u00a0established Settlement Watch, taking upon itself to track and analyze developments in the settlements. Through research, analysis and exposure of settlement developments, Peace Now works to prevent settlement expansion\u00a0and stop illegal settlement activity.<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">\u00a0The Settlement Watch team is internationally acclaimed for its credibility and reliability and is regularly cited by Israeli and international media, governments, and NGOs.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peace Now\u00a0is the largest and longest-standing Israeli movement advocating for peace. Under the mission of arriving at peace agreements between Israel and its neighbors, Peace Now\u00a0currently works to ensure Israelis embrace the only viable solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: two states and the creation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel.\u00a0Peace Now&#8217;s activities include demonstrations, calls&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/about-us\" title=\"Read About Us\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10623,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-459","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26818,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/459\/revisions\/26818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}