Jewish-Arab Dialogue – Children and Teens

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Project Description

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Children Teaching Children (CTC)

In-depth yearlong activity in grades 8 and 9 at Jewish and Arab schools. Acceptance of the other, equality of worth, familiarity and friendship, ideals of democracy and equality.

8 classes, 250 participants, well established (JACP)

Face to Face

Encounters between high school students (11-12 grades) in a two-day seminar at Givat Haviva. Bi-national facilitation. In-depth activity for educational staff at the schools.

4,000 participants, educator activity, recognized by Ministry of Education (JACP)

Through Others’ Eyes

Encounters between Jewish and Arab teens from the region, through the camera, annual activity, visit and photography in the homes of the participants and final exhibit.

Well established, 20 participants (Arts Center)

Through Others’ Eyes – Documentary Film

Photography workshop and production of documentary films by Jewish and Arab teens from the region. Films related to identity and local stories.

Pilot Project, 20 participants (Arts Center)

Crossing Borders

Encounters between Jewish and Arab teens from Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority focused on publishing a joint magazine on coexistence, society and current events.

Well established, a magazine is published every two months (JACP)

Educational Tourism

Seminars on Israeli society for schools and youth movements from abroad.

International Department

Jewish-Arab Dialogue – Adults

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Project Description

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Through Others’ Eyes  - Women

Encounters between Jewish and Arab women from the region, through the camera, annual activity, photography in the homes of the participants and final exhibit.

Third Year, 20 participants (Arts Center)

Creating Women’s Business Communities

Personal empowerment and business workshop for Jewish and Arab women who own small businesses. The goal is to develop a community of business women. Personal and business support.

Third Year, 20 participants (Women’s Center)

Women in Community

Empowerment and professional training for women (social workers, community workers and volunteers) to be active on behalf of women and young girls in their communities. Conducted in parallel for Jewish and Arab women.

Well established, 60 participants, bi-national content (Women’s Center)

Women Empowering Women  Facilitators’ Course

2-year in-depth training of Jewish and Arab professional women who work with women’s groups.  Emphasis on bi-national and multicultural work

Givat Haviva opens facilitators courses approximately every 4 years

Empowerment-Adults and Youth

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Project Description

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Communications, Spokespersonship and Public Relations in the Arab Sector

Course for training educators and public officials

35 Participants (JACP)

Institute for Training Community Leaders and Municipal Workers in the Arab Community

4 annual courses for employees of local authorities, education staff and women in the Arab sector: Financial management, administration, organizational culture, education and pedagogy, leadership.

250 participants (JACP)

Women’s Empowerment Workshops

Some in cooperation with WIZO, initiatives of graduates of Women in Community. Women immigrants, women in distress, single mothers, volunteer women, middle-aged women.

7 groups, approximately 105 participants (Women’s Center)

Developing Young Arab Leadership – Student Councils

In-depth program to create young leadership at Arab schools.

Fourth Year (JACP)

Empowerment of Adolescent Girls at Risk

In cooperation with WIZO Israel. Empowerment of teenage girls defined as being at risk.

2 groups, 25 teen girls (Women’s Center)

Educational Tourism

Seminars for educators, legislators, media professionals – radio and television from abroad about Israeli society.

International Department

Educational Tourism

Seminars on Israeli society for synagogues and family trips from abroad.

International Department

Professional Training

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Project Description

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Teacher Training,

Sakhnin

7 in-service training sessions for teachers on democracy, equality, pluralism and active citizenship. Total of 112 hours.

230 participants, recognized for in-service training credit by the Ministry of Education (JACP)

Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies

 4 annual courses for adults – 130-200 hours. Class for “Middle East specialists” – yearlong intensive study, 80 participants.

Well established, stable, supported by Ministry of Education (JACP)

Teachers on Sabbatical

Yearlong course: Tolerance as a religious value, meeting of cultures, peace in the three religions, study tour. 224 hours, recognized for in-service training credit.

Well established, 20 participants (JACP)

Ceramics Course for Adults

Yearlong, high-level course, 8 hours per week, Jewish and Arab participants from around the country, meeting point purely through art.

Well established, 90 participants  (Arts Center)

Sculpture Course

Yearlong course of 6 hours per week – 30 meetings. Jews and Arabs from around the country.

10 participants (Arts Center)

Education and Enrichment

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Project Description

Comments

Arabic Language and Culture

Enrichment activity for schools and organizations. 

Approximately 6,000 participants per year (JACP) 

School Arts Workshops

Enrichment for junior high and high school students in arts workshops. 1-5 day activities. Designed for both Jews and Arabs.

1,500 participants per year (Arts Center)

Seminars for Groups from  Abroad

A wide range of seminars on Israeli society, Jews and Arabs, kibbutz, Zionism. 1-5 days long. Schools, youth movements, educators, media professionals, legislators.

5,000-7,000 participants per year (International Department)

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Project Description

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Index of Articles from Arabic Periodicals

Creation of an index of articles from Arabic periodicals in the Givat Haviva Library using the Haifa Index model.

In progress – multi-year project (Peace Library)

Research and Documentation of HaShomer HaTzair,

Archives and Research

Research, documentation and training about the kibbutz ideal as a formative phenomenon in Israeli history, now facing change/extinction.

Approximately 6 books per year (Yad Yaari)

Mifne Periodical

Publication of a unique periodical in Israel on social issues with a socialist orientation

3 journals, 700 copies (Yad Yaari)

Cyprus -

Autumn 2009

Exhibit, album catalog and study day based on the archive collection, marking the 60^th anniversary of the Cyprus camps

In progress (Yad Yaari, Moreshet)

Nathan Rapaport Project

Documentation of heritage of the famous Holocaust sculptor: artistic biography, exhibition and handling in archives

In progress – multi-year (Yad Yaari)

Shomer Tamid

Development of HaShomer HaTzair graduates organization in Israel, including database and study days

In progress (Yad Yaari + HaShomer HaTzair, Kibbutz Artzi)

Jewish-Arab Dialogue – Children and Teens

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Project Description

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Jewish-Arab Volunteer Year

Building leadership group of Jews and Arabs: community activity, studies on democracy and education.

Proposal (JACP)

A Song of Praise to Hope

Program for kindergarten children: Children’s song books in Hebrew and Arabic + musical tape. Target audience: Kindergarten  teachers

Proposal (JACP)

Adolescent Girls’ Leadership

Empowerment and leadership development course for Jewish and Arab teen girls in the north.

Proposal (Women’s Center)

Yachad – Together for the Environment

Jewish-Arab encounter – kindergartens and elementary schools – through activities related to the environment, recycling and creativity.

Proposal (Arts Center)

Jewish-Arab Youth Orchestra

Establishment of a joint youth orchestra that will serve as the younger generation to the existing Jewish-Arab youth orchestra

Proposal (Arts Center)

Studies in the Narratives of Two Peoples – Roving Dialogue

Encounters between Jewish and Arab youth, 9^th grade – series of meetings at sites with historic and national meaning

Proposal (JACP)

Jewish-Arab Dialogue – Adults

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Project Description

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Jewish and Arab Women Artists Festival

Festival for Jewish and Arab women artists, including performances, exhibits, workshops and sales.

Proposal (Women’s Center + Arts Center)

Women’s Leadership Empowerment Workshop

Course for development of leadership for Jewish and Arab women.

Proposal (Women’s Center)

Givat Haviva Conference

Large annual conference, designed for the public – for discussion of Arab-Jewish relations in the country. (Sderot Conference format).

Proposal (JACP)

Working with Mother-Daughter Groups

Workshop for teen girls in distress and their mothers: Ethiopian, Kafkazi and Arab women. In cooperation with the local Welfare Departments.

Proposal (Women’s Center)

Empowerment Workshops for Women

Workshops for empowerment of Jewish and Arab women.

Proposal (Women’s Center)

Empowerment of Ethiopian Women

Course that includes personal empowerment, professional training and business training for Ethiopian women.

Proposal (Women’s Center)

Professional Training

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Project Description

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Abie Nathan International Training Center

Establishment of international training center for rescue and aid missions around the world (natural disasters, famine) named for the “Peace Captain”, including an historic exhibit.

Proposal (Yad Yaari)

Remodeling of Language Laboratory

The language laboratory for Arabic studies is old and limited. New equipment and computers required.

Proposal (JACP)

Exhibition, Documentation and Research

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Project Description

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Digitization of Arabic Press

Digitization of the unique archive of Palestinian periodicals at the library (periodicals from 1920 to date)

200,000 newspaper pages (Peace Library)

Renewal of HaShomer HaTzair Exhibit

Re-establishment of the historical exhibit on the history of HaShomer HaTzair movement and Kibbutz Artzi Federation, at Yad Yaari.

1,500 visitors (Yad Yaari)

Digitization of Video Collection

Conversion of video collection at Yad Yaari, including unique kibbutz materials, into digital media

300 hours of approximately 3,000 videos (Yad Yaari)

Publication of Book in German – Shimon Avidan Biography

Translation of Shimon Avidan’s biography into German.  His story as an anti-Nazi communist agent.

Proposal (Yad Yaari)

Preservation of Endangered Pictorial Memory

Locating, preserving, scanning, cataloging and presentation of endangered photo collections from the early years of the Jewish agricultural settlements in Israel (Palestine).

New. Tens of thousand of items. (Yad Yaari)