"A brainstorm should be set up to concentrate on an approach to the Arab world," read a headline article in the 1971 newspaper, quoted by a former police and postal minister, Eliahu Sasson, a member of a Jewish-Baghdad nobility who ran an economic corporation operating in Iraq and India. For many years, Sasson has tried to promote, most often in the face of a broken trough, what he saw as the supreme interest of the country: to take significant diplomatic steps to promote cooperation and mutual understanding between us and the Arab world.

Sasson wasn't the only one. Joseph Eliyahu three (1934-1870), founder of the city of Tel Aviv, in 1931 strongly criticized the second immigrants who had recently arrived, according to which the uplifting justice and fraternity: "During this time of our work in the building of the country we did not even endeavor to learn to know the language of the country , The language of our neighbors ... To this day, in every new Hebrew settlement in our cities and in our colonies, there is a very small number of people who know how to read and write their language. "

It is intriguing to think what they would say three and what if they saw the "political tsunami" of the last era in the relations between the Jewish people and the Arab world. In Alexandria, the Egyptian government, with the investment of millions, restored the ancient synagogue in the city; In Morocco, the king himself came to the opening of a similar synagogue in the city of Aswira, at the height of the process of recognizing Jewish culture as part of Moroccan history; The UAE tweeted unprecedentedly on the occasion of International Holocaust Day: "We remember together the lives lost, so these crimes against humanity will never come back" (translation: Einat Levi). A few days before, his government had established the "Abraham Family House" with a mosque, church and synagogue in a common space. Relations with Saudi Arabia need not be expanded: Only this week, Interior Minister Aryeh Deri announced a permit for businessmen to go on trips to Saudi Arabia.

About a week ago I interviewed Eleanor Rahimi, a young graphic artist who set up the Facebook page "Persian Word a Day". Rahimi talks about a flurry of inquiries from Iranian youths to her message box after singer Liraz Czech, who has been favored in Iran, shared her venture page. In another case, a video recorded by Jews from Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and Tunisia in just a few days garnered 6 million views and enthusiastic reactions from all over the Arab world.

We are witnessing an outbreak of a significant underground stream in relation to Israel and the Jews in the countries around us. Centuries of history and common language float to the surface. Israel would do well to implement Minister Sasson's recommendation of 1971 and invest far more significant resources in strengthening this welcome trend.

Adv. Ofir Tubol is the founder of the Golden Age movement