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Alyssa Annis

Sep 9, 2026, 10:54 PM

A New Year, But With a Different Type of Admiration

I just finished a week in Israel with the most inspiring group from Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan, as part of my work as the Director of Educational Programs at Sharaka. We bring delegations of arabs and muslims from across the...

Apr 15, 2026, 8:08 AM

Day 2- Muslims Leaders at March of the Living

Day Two – Poland On the first day of this delegation, I wrote about encounter, about hope, and about that fragile but real sense that something better is possible when people choose to meet each other as human beings. Today, on...

Apr 14, 2026, 2:09 AM

Marching in Poland

Day One Poland How do I sum up the first day of this delegation to Poland? This is my sixth time here, and every time I arrive I struggle to find the right words. Poland has a way of doing that...

Mar 11, 2026, 11:04 PM

The future of the region

Sitting here in a bomb shelter north of Tel Aviv, listening to our Iron Dome save countless lives in our country and the occasional boom that shakes the ground beneath us, I find myself thinking about the future of...

Dec 14, 2025, 10:13 PM

Hope this Hanukkah

On Yom Kippur, it was Manchester. Today, on Hanukkah, it was Australia. Different dates. Different places. Different sides of the world. The same hatred. Innocent lives taken because the warnings of antisemitism were ignored. I just read that one of the victims of...

Oct 13, 2025, 11:02 PM

A different type of air today

I woke up this morning just like the rest of the nation eager, happy, if only one word could describe the feelings. The first message I saw was from someone I work with in Morocco, a Muslim, who said, “I...

Jun 27, 2025, 1:27 PM

Hope in the Bomb Shelter

I find myself sitting in a bomb shelter on the outskirts of Tel Aviv. Seven people. One small room. I’m writing these words hoping the world sees what I do hoping the light, the unity, and the miracles are...

Dec 31, 2024, 12:15 PM

May the Lights bring Us Hope

Chanukah is here—a time to once again remember the story of Yehuda HaMaccabi and the enduring Jewish story of survival. It is a festival dedicated to commemorating a miracle from thousands of years ago, yet it reconnects us to...

Jan 24, 2023, 11:31 PM

How do we make it our mission to remember?

How do we make sure the Holocaust doesn't just become something from our past? As 2023 begins it arrives with a time to reflect on 2022. To learn from our mistakes and do better. Going into the new year a...

About Me

Alyssa Annis works to advance the Abraham Accords through people-to-people diplomacy, dialogue, and regional engagement at Sharaka where she is the director of Educational Programs. She also runs the Instagram page @mymissiontoremember, dedicated to Holocaust education and remembrance. Alyssa is a graduate of Reichman University and an alumna of the Argov Fellows Program in Leadership and Diplomacy.

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