The Israeli Ministry of Education has issued a call to high school principles and educators nationwide encouraging their participation in Givat Haviva's renowned Face-to-Face program.  Face-to-Face facilitates encounters between groups of Jewish and Arab high school students and their teachers in two-day intensive seminars designed to create greater understanding of one another, reduce feelings of fear and hatred, and forge a preliminary basis for dialogue between the two populations.

The program is being run with support from the Society & Youth Department of the Ministry of Education, implemented in the framework of the national Citizenship Program.  Supporting the values and educational principles on which Face-to-Face is based, the Ministry encourages school leadership to integrate the program as part of a larger educational process supporting peace education and coexistence between Arabs and Jews in Israel:

"We view encounters with great importance.  However, in order to ensure their constructive impact, we believe it is an educational imperative that they must be part of a year-long process led by teachers and the school staff."

-Call for Participation in Face-to-Face

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