Some students change their own lives through education.Others change the direction of an entire organization. Razan Hamdan Abulebdeh was one of those rare individuals. A physician from Gaza, a Leonard Education Organization (LE.O) scholar, and a young woman defined by courage, compassion, and service, Razan believed deeply in the power of education to transform communities. […]
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Dear Friends, It is with much sadness that we announce the passing of Dr. Graham Leonard, after whom the Leonard Education Organization (LE.O) was named. It is almost impossible to write a one-page obituary about a man who has lived such a long, productive, healthy, and extraordinary life. His life’s work was dedicated to education,
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Early Childhood: Lily Saleem Abou Nassar was born to Deya Akkawi and Saleem AbouNassar, in Haifa, Palestine. Both families were from Nazareth. Lily was the youngest of five children, Faheema, Olga, Antoine and Georges. Saleem Abou Nassar owned the first Opel Car Dealership in Palestine, where he worked alongside his five brothers during the British Mandate.
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Born in 1947, Ibrahim AbuAitah was only one year old when his parents and two older siblings, along with over 600 more villagers, were forced out of their ancestral village Najd at gunpoint during Operation Barak through which the Negev Brigade occupied it. After their village was destroyed and the Israeli settlement Sderot was founded
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