Since twenty years the German-Israeli Young Leaders Exchange program is bringing young generations of both countries together to find common paths to the future despite the abyss of the past and amidst alarming tendencies of the present. Personal encounters strenghten this network. A visit to Berlin, where Antonia Yamin works as european correspondent of the israeli TV channel KAN and to Tel Aviv, where Mike Lingenfelser is chief of the german TV ARD Mideast station.