Handshakes and building bridges are agents of National Reconciliation and peace building

Throughout history, handshakes by renowned leaders in the world have marked important events of posterity. On April 27, 1945, US and Soviet forces met and shook hands with Russian soldiers on a broken bridge.

The handshake marked the victory in Europe during the Second World War. Palestinians’ Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s handshake was the beginning of the peace process between their two countries after years of war.