 In a review of Grace Feuerverger's monograph, H. Svi Shapiro assesses Neve Shalom's aspirations to provide a civic achievement of citizens enjoying equal status and rights, and concludes that;
Neve Shalom/Wahat Al-Salam provides no definitive solution to this conundrum.It does allow us, however, to see how one group of courageous, idealistic, and thoughtful individuals is struggling to mediate the tensions inherent in this situation.Journalist Joe Freeman has written of the village and its complex identity.