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Friends and family of the late Freddie Krivine attend an event in London to mark 25 years since the creation of his groundbreaking project

November 2025 - We represented FKI at the Sports for Social Change Caucus meeting in the Israeli Knesset - where we we received a certificate of recognition for our work.

December 2025 - FKI's annual Jewish-Arab Hanukkah party featured in the Israel Tennis Association's summary of most inspiring events in 2025.

In these dark times when many coexistence projects in Israel are taking time out to reassess, FKI, runs four afterschool tennis and community clubs for Arab and Jewish youth.

Canadian Ambassador to Israel is impressed by FKI on a visit to our summer camps.

Channel 12 prime time news channel features Mohameed Rashwan and Yoni Gottlieb - FKI coaches - on how to continue Arab-Jewish tennis programs after Oct 7th.

Summer Camp covered in Jewish Chronicle London, UK

Nancy Strichtman: "For the Freddie Krivine Initiatives, this sharpened focus kept them working towards using tennis both as a way of building greater shared society and creating opportunities of social mobility for their Arab tennis players."

Cliff Richard: " "Building bridges between communities is always admirable. To do so via my favorite sport, tennis, was just a perfect concept for me. Arab and Jewish children playing sport together with all that means in terms of healthy competition, confidence and camaraderie can only sow good seeds for the future.”

FKI features in Israeli Sports Channel 5 - about our Arab-Jewish tennis and coexistence programs.
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