Barak Swarttz

I, by default, when I came out of the womb, got it because both of my parents are rabbis, actually.

My mom's a Reform rabbi and my dad's a Reconstructionist rabbi.

And the reason this has been an incredibly...

big gift in my life.

And again, I'm gonna go back to those two years I was in Israel.

In the most fundamental years of growing up as a child, I got not just Israel, my parents took my brother and I down to the Negev, which is the desert in Southern Israel.

And we went down there because there are many Bedouin communities down there.

Arab Bedouins who don't necessarily have, they're nomadic groups of people that travel a lot.

They pick up their bags, they travel, they put them down and they move because they're kind of on the go.

They don't necessarily have the same access to resources as other people do.

And they actually, there was a village that had dirty drinking water in Southern Israel.

And my family at six years old,

They say, we're going to go down there.

We're going to live in a tent for two weeks and we're going to help build them a medical facility out of haystacks and clay so that they can have clean drinking water.

These are Arab children speaking Arabic.

I don't speak Hebrew.

They don't speak English.

I'm communicating with Arab kids at six years old and I don't see ethnicity.

I don't see religion.

I don't see language.