Whether developing new cancer treatments, advancing artificial intelligence, tackling climate change or creating more sustainable food systems, collaboration is at the heart of everything the Technion does. Instead, Hackney has chosen to distance itself from one of the strongest examples of coexistence in the region. At a time when division seems to dominate so much of public life, Haifa quietly offers a different example. Rather than turning away from cities like Haifa, we should be asking what we can learn from them. Symbolic gestures may generate headlines, but they rarely change lives.