Palestinian & Israeli: Can One Life Hold Both?

An episode of the Amplify Peace: Creating a Better Story Together podcast, hosted by Amplify Peace, titled "Palestinian & Israeli: Can One Life Hold Both?" was published on July 4, 2025 and runs 26 minutes.

July 4, 2025 ·26m · Amplify Peace: Creating a Better Story Together

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Send us Fan Mail In this moving first episode of a two-part conversation, you’ll meet our guest, Michael Zacharia—an Executive Coach, Mediator, Attorney, author, and peacemaker whose life embodies a question the world is still wrestling with: Can one life hold both Palestinian and Israeli identity? Born to a Palestinian Christian father and a Jewish Israeli mother, Michael’s early life was steeped in complexity, contradiction, and deep cultural richness. Raised in the United States, he grew u...

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In this moving first episode of a two-part conversation, you’ll meet our guest, Michael Zacharia—an Executive Coach, Mediator, Attorney, author, and peacemaker whose life embodies a question the world is still wrestling with: Can one life hold both Palestinian and Israeli identity?

Born to a Palestinian Christian father and a Jewish Israeli mother, Michael’s early life was steeped in complexity, contradiction, and deep cultural richness. Raised in the United States, he grew up at the intersection of global conflict and personal formation—where hospitality met independence, where ancient tensions lived around the dinner table, and where identity was never a simple checkbox.

In this episode, Michael shares how he learned to live in the in-between—with courage, compassion, and curiosity. He reflects on how both the beauty and the messiness of his story shaped his journey of becoming a mediator and peacemaker.

This is not just a conversation about heritage. It’s a call to wholeness in a world of division.