Israeli Choreographers Association

National Network
Israel
Address

7 Carcom st
Rosh Ha'ayin
Albania

Telephone
972-3-9021563
Telephone (other)
972-54-4727371
Fax
972-3-9031289
E-Mail
moshri1@netvision.net.il
E-Mail (2)
office@gelfandprod.com
Mobile Phone
972-54-4940083
Mobile Phone (other)
972-52-2257199
Organisation Type
Public/Private Non-Profit Foundation
Year of Establishment
1992
Fields of Activity
  1. Arts
General Information
The Israel Choreographers Association has been working to advance Israeli dance in Israel and abroad. We strive to expose dance to an ever widening variety of audiences, and place dance at the forefront of Israel's cultural scene. The ICA serves as the management body for the choreographers, managing their budgets and providing various services including accounting, public relations, legal aid, third party insurance, subsidy of rehearsal space, national and local advertising of performances and workshops, providing information regarding grant RFPs, training opportunities, and representation of society members before foundations and various supporters in Israel and abroad. At present, we have 54 independent artist members, who are all leaders in their field in Israel and abroad. All our members are professional choreographers and manage their own dance company or create annual dance projects. Our financial supporters include the Ministry of Science Culture and Sport's Department of Dance, Teva Pharmaceuticals, the Municipality of Tel Aviv and other municipalities, Mifal HaPayis, funds and income form tickets & workshops, master classes, projects and performances in Israel and abroad. Yearly budget of the association is about 3,500,000$.
Mission and Objectives

Advancing Israeli dance in Israel and abroad. We endeavor to expose dance to an ever widening variety of audiences, and place dance at the forefront of Israel's cultural scene, and promote projects that use the language of dance for the good of society.

Main Projects / Activities

Alongside our work to support and assist the choreographers themselves in advancing Israeli dance in Israel and abroad. We endeavor to expose dance to an ever widening variety of audiences, and place dance at the forefront of Israel's cultural scene. , the ICA runs different projects: a unique project that brings together professional dancers and severely at- risk teens, for a year of dance training sessions and a joint professional performance. The project provides at risk youth with a window into the world of dance and creates the opportunity for forging relationships with an inspiring role model. Na'im (On the Move), creates opportunities for communities in Israel's social, economic and geographic peripheries to encounter the world of Israeli dance, through creating subsidized dance festivals, workshops and performances in Israel's periphery. International projects using dance and other art forms creating cultural dialog between countries.

Contact (1) Full Name
Efrat Herman
Head of the organisation
Sigalit Gelfand

Keshev - The Center for the Protection of Democracy in Israel

National Network
Israel
Address

PO Box 8005
Jerusalem 91080

Jerusalem
Israel

Telephone
+972-2-6221126
Telephone (other)
+972-2-6221127
Fax
+972-2-6221127
E-Mail
ber3@bezeqint.net
E-Mail (2)
schiffman@bezeqint.net
E-Mail (3)
aviva.keshev@gmail.com
E-Mail (4)
yizharb@gmail.com
Mobile Phone
+972-50-5317531
Mobile Phone (other)
+972-52-5288124
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Year of Establishment
1997
Fields of Activity
  1. Human rights
General Information
Founded in 1997, Keshev is an Israeli NGO that strives to improve the media and public discourse in Israeli society. Keshev is governed by a board of directors that includes professors, former journalists and social activists. Keshev currently employs five staff persons. In recent years Keshev has received support from the European Commission, the Ford Foundation, the United States Institute of Peace, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung and the Government of Canada. Since 2004, Keshev has been carrying out a unique media-monitoring project in partnership with the Palestinian organization MIFTAH, in which each organization monitors media coverage of the conflict and advises editors in its own side's national media outlets. The project has thus far led to the publication of more than twenty monitoring reports. Keshev promotes critical media consumption among Israelis and has produced pedagogical materials on the subject that are used in communications departments in Israeli universities.
Mission and Objectives

Keshev was founded following the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin by Israeli citizens who shared a deep concern about the deterioration of the public discourse and its repercussions for Israeli democracy. Keshev promotes a more moderate media discourse and critical media consumption by carrying out and disseminating media analyses and advocating vis-a-vis journalists, students and media consumers. We advise media editors on how to correct deviations from sound media practices and we teach students and news consumers to evaluate coverage critically in order to acquire informed viewpoints that can help them make reasoned decisions in all aspects of their democratic participation.

Main Projects / Activities

MEDIA ANALYSIS - Keshev monitors six major Israeli media outlets (three daily newspapers and nightly newscasts on three television channels) and analyzes their coverage of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. We share our findings with senior editors, students and the public, in order to promote a more moderate media discourse. Since 2005 we have published several studies of media coverage of salient events in the regional conflict, including the death of Yasser Arafat, the Second Lebanon War and negotiations over Jerusalem.
EDUCATION - Keshev introduces young Israeli journalism professionals to their Palestinian counterparts and promotes greater reliance on Palestinian sources. Our organization makes presentations of its findings before students and ordinary news consumers. We also promote to editors alternative, less inflammatory ways of presenting news coverage.

Contact (1) Full Name
Eitan Schiffman (Program Development)
Head of the organisation
Yizhar Be'er (Executive Director)
Contact (2) Full Name
Aviva Shemesh (Project Manager) and Yizhar Be'er

Mahapach-Taghir

National Network
Israel
Address

61/2 Ibn Gavirol, Tel Aviv 64362
Tel Aviv
Israel

Telephone
+972-3-6952821
Fax
+972-3-6952821
E-Mail
info@mahapach-taghir.org
Organisation Type
Public/Private Non-Profit Foundation
Year of Establishment
1999
Fields of Activity
  1. Youth and education
General Information
Mahapach-Taghir has a Board of Directors comprised of 9 social activists from across Israel. The 11 paid staff members include the director, two national coordinators, 7 community coordinators, and 2 resource developers. MT also receives support from volunteers and students fulfilling their national service. MT is currently funded by 15 different public and private sources (see attachment), and is constantly looking for new sources of support in order to expand our programs. We run four days of supplemental educational programs in 7 low-income neighborhoods across Israel. Each community holds 5 MT-sponsored community-wide "action days" each year. MT supports a Steering Committee comprised of residents of each of the 7 communities that decides on thematic focuses in the educational programs of the grade school students, and also brings in speakers to discuss social and economic community issues amongst Steering Committee members, the tutoring university students that run the after-school programs, and interested additional members of the community. MT organizes 2 national seminars for involved university students and 2 national seminars for Steering Committee members that address pedagogical educational techniques, coexistence issues in Israel, personal empowerment techniques, etc.. MT runs women's groups in 4 of our communities for women in their 30s-40s and has provided education support for those members interested in going to college. For a detailed list of our partners across Israel, see the attachment.
Mission and Objectives

Mission and Goals
a. To promote equal educational opportunities for children and adolescents in Mahapach-Taghir Learning Communities through innovative programs that complement formal education using the principles of Critical Pedagogy;
b. To develop social awareness, community responsibility and involvement among local residents of Mahapach-Taghir’s communities;
c. To encourage and empower democratic, independent, local leadership for social change led by local residents;
d. To encourage and empower women in Mahapach-Taghir communities to become more actively involved both in their children’s education and in social activism in their communities;
e. To involve the university students in Israel in the creation of positive societal change, social justice, and local empowerment.

Main Projects / Activities

Each of the seven Jewish and Arab communities in which MT operates runs the following programs:
- Academic and pedagogical tutoring
Each child in the Learning Community receives two weekly hours of individual tutoring and two hours of group activities from trained university students who receive incentives for social involvement. Each child has his or her own work-plan, which outlines anticipated improvement and is decided upon by the parents, teacher, and the tutoring student. Emphasis throughout the year is put on reading and writing skills, on developing learning methods, on improving the ability of independent learning, on developing the communal sense of belonging amongst the children, and on identity, self-image and self-confidence issues.
- Parental involvement
In each Mahapach-Taghir community, there is a work team comprised of six to twelve local parents and other residents that take on the role of the community board. This board, the Steering Committee, forms the crux of the pedagogical work done at the Learning Community and the communal work of Mahapach-Taghir. The Steering Committee is encouraged to hold responsibility for the Learning Community, to set its program and agenda, and to become actively involved in shaping the community’s future. Steering Committee members take active roles in organizing the Learning Community’s public activities, such as the Community Action Days, workshops, and local campaigns organized throughout the year. Each Steering Committee meets at least twice every month.
- University Student Activism
Embedded within the Learning Community framework is the opportunity for university students to tutor children and adolescents while receiving a scholarship for social involvement. Mahapach-Taghir encourages the students to become involved in community work beyond their role as tutors by taking part in local Steering Committee sessions and local campaigns, staying in touch with the parents, and meeting with students in other communities and organizations in order to create new channels of cooperation. The students attend two national seminars every year: one dedicated to pedagogical training, and the other to community work and activism. In both seminars (and especially in the second one), they are exposed to the work of other organizations for social change that Mahapach-Taghir brings in as speakers. In addition, they attend five workshops throughout the year that provide them with the tools and knowledge essential to pedagogical and communal work.
- Building Women’s Leadership in Education
In line with Mahapach-Taghir’s identification as a feminist NGO, the organization takes active, definitive steps towards fostering the ongoing empowerment of mothers with children active in the Learning Communities, for whom equal educational opportunities have been identified as a shared concern and a common ground for inclusive cooperation. This includes systematic empowerment training that exposes participating women to human rights concepts, feminist agendas, and the practices of civil society. This training allows them to gain experience in initiating and carrying out communal campaigns while encouraging them to engage in inter-communal cooperation.

Contact (1) Full Name
Liron Azulai
Contact (2) Full Name
Fidaa Nara Abu Dbai

Merchavim-The Institute for the Advancement of Shared Citizenship in Israel

National Network
Israel
Address

4 Hamelaha St.
Lod 7152010
Israel

Telephone
+972 54 2637854
E-Mail
tamara@merchavim.net
Mobile Phone
+972 54 2637854
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Year of Establishment
1998
Fields of Activity
  1. Youth and education
General Information
There is not a school or a classroom that does not have diversity within it. Educators must provide students the tools to flourish within this diversity, so that they can succeed at school, as adults, in higher education, employment and the community at large. This challenge must not be avoided or ignored. We must engage with it productively so that everyone benefits from the fruits of diversity. Merchavim is an Israeli nonprofit organization, established in 1998, working to assist young citizens from different backgrounds to get to know one another, value differences, increase awareness of shared citizenship and create fairer classrooms, schools and communities. Unique to Merchavim is the Shared Citizenship Model, developed by a diverse group of educational professionals. The model includes a consensual civic language which brings together all the different groups in Israeli society.  Merchavim works with all of these groups, holistically engaging with diversity rather than limiting the idea of identity to a binary e.g. religious-secular, Arab-Jewish, immigrants-natives and so forth.  On the basis of its Shared Citizenship Model, Merchavim has developed a variety of unique programs, in cooperation with the Ministry of Education. The programs are tailored for different ages, from kindergarten to high school and afterwards. Since its establishment, Merchavim has trained over 3,000 educators through in-depth seminars of 30-60 hours. Through these educators we influence hundreds of thousands of young citizens each year. Additionally, tens of thousands of students directly participate in programs annually. Over the years, 15 evaluation studies have shown that Merchavim’s programs lead to meaningful changes in attitudes towards the ‘other’ among teachers and students, affecting their behavior in school and in society.
Mission and Objectives

Mission Statement
Merchavim’s mission is to help Israel’s young citizens of all backgrounds to learn about the other, value diversity, and create fairer classrooms, schools and communities
Vision
To be a leading Israeli shared citizenship education organization, in order to help all of Israel’s 8 million citizens to live together in a fairer society by providing everyone with equal opportunities, respect and a sense of belonging
Core Values
Fair treatment of employees, suppliers and partners.
Respect for diversity among our staff and our target populations, as an expression of our shared citizenship vision.
Professionalism and steadily improving quality of programs and services.
Partnership with various organizations to promote our vision, on the basis of shared values.
Responsibility, trust and transparency in all partnerships.
Learning and continual improvement as an organization and as individuals – we aspire to be the best organization in our field.
Identification and commitment to our shared citizenship model – along with a continual ambition for its improvement.

Main Projects / Activities

Major ProgramsSeminars and Workshops  - A variety of seminars for teachers (e.g. teaching kindergarten, English or Physical Ed. classes), that provide them with the tools to promote fairness and acceptance of the ‘other’ among their students. The courses are held in diverse groups (religious, secular, immigrants, natives, Arabs and Jews etc.), and are experiential. Additionally, we assist organizations and municipalities to hold meaningful encounters between different groups within diverse communities.Art - This program engages over 50 schools, 100 art and homeroom teachers and 1,600 of their students, across the country. The program includes a training seminar for teachers, weekly art lessons for students - focusing on the beauty of diversity and the other’s culture and heritage - and creative museum encounters between schools and students from different identities (religious, secular, special ed., mainstream, new immigrants, natives, Arabs and Jews etc.).  Teaching Staff Diversity - Merchavim works with the Ministry of Education through a joint initiative to integrate 500 Arab teachers (of math, science and English) in Jewish schools. Each year, 15,000 students are taught by teachers in the program. It enables meaningful encounters between Arab and Jewish citizens while ensuring that every student is taught by the best possible teacher without regard to his/her identity.Communicative Arabic and Arabic Society - In the framework of the “Let’s Talk” program, 10,000 Jewish elementary school students study communicative Arabic and shared citizenship. The program is accompanied by two additional packs: “Let’s Meet”, for encounters between Jewish and Arab pupils, and "Let's Get Acquainted", for the study of the Arab and Islamic worlds and communicative Arabic in Jewish middle schools.

Contact (1) Full Name
Tamara Klinger Levi
Head of the organisation
Ms. Esti Halperin, Executive Director

MoBY- Museums of Bat Yam

National Network
Israel
Address

Bat Yam Museum of Contemporary Art 6 Struma St., Bat Yam 59515
Bat Yam
Israel

Telephone
+972-3-6591140
E-Mail
nitzan@moby.org.il
Organisation Type
Local/Regional Authority
Fields of Activity
  1. Arts
General Information
MoBY- Museums of Bat Yam is a complex of three museums: Bat Yam Museum of Contemporary Art, Ryback House and the House of Yiddish writer Sholem Asch. 6 employees+ 4 maintanance supervisors. Main source of funding: Bat Yam municipality. Yearly budget estimate $350,000. We organize exhibitions and a public program and offer a wide range of education and social abd political engagement activities for the local community.
Mission and Objectives

MoBY [Museums of Bat Yam] is a complex of three museums, offering a wide platform for cultural research, theory, and criticism. We promote experimental approaches to art, curatorial practice and education, initiate exchanges with peer institutions, and cater to various local communities. Over the past three years, the new managing staff has set up a unique agenda of international exhibitions, public programs and academic conferences accompanied by researched catalogues and other publications.

Main Projects / Activities

Examples: November 2011- The exhibition "What is the Political" strives to create a polyphonic public reflection by artists and theoreticians in various fields, on the question of what is the political and how its mechanisms of representation and repertoire of images operate.
March 2011: Inter-cultural Street Art project. In cooperation with the Arab-Jewish community Center in Jaffa for Jewish and Arab kids from the neighboring cities: Bat Yam and Jaffa. The main goal of the project is to expose the children to alternative historical narratives, to initiate dialogue, to encourage tolerance, and to give the tools to express themselves through art.

Contact (1) Full Name
Nitzan Wolansky

Rabbis for Human Rights

National Network
Israel
Address

9 Harechavim St. Jerusalem 93462
Jerusalem
Israel

Telephone
972 (2) 648 2757
Fax
972 (2) 678 3611
E-Mail
ela@rhr.israel.net
E-Mail (2)
info@rhr.israel.net
E-Mail (3)
ela@rhr.israel.net
Mobile Phone
050 828 3100
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Year of Establishment
1988
Fields of Activity
  1. Democracy and community development
  2. Human rights
  3. Media
  4. Religion
  5. Youth and education
General Information
1. Board of RHR member Rabbis, 15 staff 2. 2006 Budget $678K 3. Rabbis and individual supporters in N. America, foundational support including Ford, Trocaire, NIF, NCA, Swedish Church, Foundation for ME Peace, and numerous Jewish family foundations 4. Dealing with particular issues of human rights violations in Israel and OT: action by volunteer activists, rabbis, and staff; legal efforts; lobby; media exposure; community involvement; Jewish and interfaith education 5. works in numerous coalitions and partnerships on an issue by issue basis.
Mission and Objectives

Rabbis for Human Rights is the only rabbinical organization in Israel explicitly dedicated to issues of human rights - promoting universal human rights based on the Torah’s teachings. RHR brings specific human rights grievances to the Israeli public’s attention and works for their redress. In three major project areas, RHR helps Israel live up to our highest Jewish values and Zionist ideals recorded in Israel’s Declaration of Independence: to protect human rights and fulfill the prophetic vision of Israel as a nation based on freedom, justice, and peace

Main Projects / Activities

Jewish and human rights education with Israeli pre-military academies, soldiers, university students, rabbis and educators, and interfaith forums.
Human rights in Israel, especially against the Israeli ‘Wisconsin Plan’ in Hadera and in Knesset lobbying on budget issues. Strong interest on issues of foreign workers, trafficking of women, health care.
Human rights in OT, especially agricultural access, administrative home demolitions and additionally as these relate to the route of the Separation Barrier and violence (particular focus currently in South Hebron Hills)

Contact (1) Full Name
Ela Greenberg (Director)
Head of the organisation
Ayala Levi
Contact (2) Full Name
Sam Shube

Social Economic Academy

National Network
Israel
Address

PO Box 9226 Tel Aviv Israel 61091
Tel Aviv
Albania

Telephone
+972-3-7306444
Fax
+972-3-7300375
E-Mail
resource@sea.org.il
E-Mail (2)
manager@sea.org.il
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Year of Establishment
2003
Fields of Activity
  1. Others
General Information
Structure of the organization: It is a members' organization, (no membership fees), with 6 staff (1 full time + 5 part time). The organization's annual budget is $245,000 used for courses on alternative social economic knowledge, lectures and series to the general public – our public debate projects and courses for agents of change. Our recent sources of funding are: $30,000 The New Israel Fund $5,000 Oxfam $23,000 Rosa Luxemburg Foundation $38,000 Rosa Luxemburg Foundation $3,000 Private Donors $18,000 Courses fees $89,000 In Kind Main partners involved in the organization's activities: SEA had been creating a network of cooperation with different organizations – some (16) provide facilities, some (10) assist in networking and publication and some (12) offer support to deal with shared concerns.
Mission and Objectives

offers theory and critical tools needed to promote economic alternatives; encourages its students to become involved in actions that will lead to changes in social-economic policy. Over the last 5 years since its inception, it directly reached more than 15,000 people of all ages, from all ethnicities and from all walks of life. In addition, SEA reaches thousands of people annually through its lectures and articles that are published weekly on popular internet sites; daily radio columns that address issues at critical junctures, as well as other media related activities. More than 1000 entries to SEA’s web-site are counted daily.

Main Projects / Activities

SEA holds activities in 4 branches across Israel. In addition SEA holds classes in different locations in social and geographical peripheries. All of the teachers (now more then 470) donate their time, and the symbolic tuition is used to cover rental expenses of the classrooms. Our activities focus around 3 areas:
1. Knowledge –offer short and full semester series of courses providing theoretical information and practical tools.
2. Agents of Change we offer courses to activists in organizations for social change.
3. Public Debate - use different public platform to spread its message: major internet media outlets, critical economic public debates in different political cross points and a Movie and Lecture series in major cities’ Cinematheque.

Contact (1) Full Name
Rachel Amram
Head of the organisation
Michal Shohat

The Centre for the Study of European Politics and Society (CSEPS), Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

National Network
Israel
Address

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Beer-Sheva
Israel

Telephone
+972 8 647 70 64
Fax
+972 8 647 76 10
E-Mail
europe@bgu.ac.il
E-Mail (2)
pardos@bgu.ac.i
Mobile Phone
+972 54 300 75 51
Organisation Type
Public Institution
Year of Establishment
2003
Fields of Activity
  1. Democracy and community development
  2. International/Cultural relations
  3. Research
  4. Youth and education
General Information
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Mission and Objectives

The Centre for the Study of European Politics and Society (CSEPS) was established in order to promote a greater awareness within Israel of the growing importance of Europe and of the European Union, and to offer BGU students the opportunity to learn about contemporary political and social developments in Europe.
We have been able to offer scholarships to BGU students, allowing them to conduct research on contemporary European affairs, to participate in workshops and student summer schools, and have helped establish new courses on Europe at the university. CSEPS also brings a flavour of European culture to the university campus through cultural events, films and talks by European personalities.

Main Projects / Activities

CSEPS's activities cover a variety of different areas, such as developing links with European institutions and launching collaborative research projects with European colleagues. CSEPS organises international conferences and workshops bringing European researchers, decision makers, diplomats and political figures to Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
Main Projects:
• Creating New Constituencies for Peace
• Israeli Grand Strategy towards the EU
• Euro-Mediterranean Young Researchers Network
• European Elections Monitor
• The Ambassadors Forum
• Israeli European Policy Network

Contact (1) Full Name
Dr. Sharon PARDO
Head of the organisation
Dr. Sharon PARDO – Executive Director

The Gvanim Association for Education and Community Involvement

National Network
Israel
Address

5 Shaked Street.
Sderot
Israel

Telephone
+972-54-4689002
Telephone (other)
+972-8-6220804
Fax
+972-8-6890411
E-Mail
ccohen.gvanim@outlook.com
E-Mail (2)
gilam@gvanim.org.il
E-Mail (3)
info@gvanim.org.il
Mobile Phone
+972-54-4689002
Mobile Phone (other)
+972-54-4689181
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Year of Establishment
1994
Fields of Activity
  1. Democracy and community development
  2. Heritage
  3. Human rights
  4. Others
  5. Youth and education
General Information
Gvanim was established to provide services for people with disabilities. It's evolved into a multi-faceted community service organization with 40+ influential programs; some are recognized as best- in-class and proliferated nationally. Nitai Shreiber and Barak Bitnun share organizational directorship. Fields of activity are managed by Field Directors. Logistics and administration are handled centrally. Programs and projects grow from community-based initiatives and are led by program coordinators. The Board of Directors meets monthly. Gvanim's annual budget is around 9M USD. Sources of funding: government ministries; local businesses; foundations and trusts; private donors; participation fees. Methods include: seminars; workshops; sports activities; field trips; social/empowerment programs; community volunteering; vocational training; alternative education frameworks; group, individual, and family therapy; detection and para-medical treatment; construction of community structures (assisted living complex, volunteer house, protected workshops). Gvanim works in partnership and coordination with like-minded organizations, community groups, government ministries, federations, and various foundations.
Mission and Objectives

Gvanim’s mission is to empower individuals and communities and help them reach their full potential. As a multi-faceted support organization, we offer a network of continuous coverage to disadvantaged populations. While our focus is Sderot, many of our programs support the Northern Negev and several now operate on a national level.
Our guiding principle is to create realistic models for change and implement them in partnership with the communities we serve.
Our objectives vary per field and program; we focus on integrating people and communities in Israel's socio-geo-economic periphery into mainstream society by providing them with the tools, skills, knowledge, and mindset they need to overcome their disadvantages and become independent and contributing adults who will lead their communities in growth and social improvement.

Main Projects / Activities

Fields of action include: people with disabilities; young community leadership and social entrepreneurship; immigrants in crisis; early childhood development; children, youth, and families at risk; and community resilience.
Centers for community programs include: the Tachlit-Meir Center for Youth at High Risk; the Hadar School for Children with Severe Disabilities; Sderot's Volunteer House; the Atzmaut Center for Ethiopian Immigrants; the Dorot Center for Immigrants from Kafkaz; the Netivim Center for Young Adults; the Parent-Teen Center; the Parent-Child Center; the Open House for Early Childhood Programs; Gvanim Ashkelon Center for adults with emotional disabilities; The Assisted Living Complex for adults with disabilities; the Rainbow Club (social club for adults with disabilities), Star Children Social Club.
Additional programs we're partnered with include Yachini Student Village, the Sderot Resilience Center.

How can you contribute to the Network in your country?

Gvanim will bring with it 18 years of successful experience in the field of non-profit social programs. It has experience in building and participating in multi-organizational forums and creating cooperative programs with them. It has created models for efficiency and success that it shares with other organizations. Gvanim has experience in "working from within" – working with members of the communities it supports to ensure a good fit, community involvement, long term benefit of its programs. Gvanim will be an active partner in the AFL Israel network to promote programs that support and promote society and help people facing challenges triumph, integrate into, and lead social change in normative society. It will also be an active partner in promoting organizational change, and hopes to learn much from its network partners, as well.

Why do you want to join the ALF Network?

Gvanim's work method of choice is working in close partnership with like-minded organizations, associations, and government offices. We recognize the value of pooling knowledge, resources, and energy to create unique innovative programs based on the wide expertise available from multiple sources. Working in coordination requires effort but generally results in higher efficiency and less duplication of programs. We strive to model cooperative projects and have helped created national networks such as the national forum for Early Childhood Development (led by Anat Learner, Gvanim's Field Director for ECD) and several regional employment and business development forums (led by Yigal Bracha, director of Gvanim's Netivim Center.) Joining the ALF network is a natural extension of our policy. We believe that joining ALF will provide numerous valuable opportunities to expand programs, learn from others, and support fellow organizations dedicated to improving the lives of disadvantaged populations.

Contact (1) Full Name
Nitai Shreiber
Head of the organisation
Nitai Shreiber - Co-Executive Director
Contact (2) Full Name
Gila Moshe

The International Exchange Division, Municipality of Jerusalem

National Network
Israel
Address

19 Jaffa Street
Jerusalem
Israel

Telephone
+972-2-6298137
Telephone (other)
+972-2-6255055
Fax
+972-2-6249430
E-Mail
fkafri@jerusalem.muni.il
Mobile Phone
+972-57-7690006
Organisation Type
Local/Regional Authority
Year of Establishment
1975
Fields of Activity
  1. Gender
  2. Religion
  3. Youth and education
General Information
The International Relations and Exchange Division is part of the Administration for Culture, Social and Leisure Activities in the Municipality of Jerusalem. The Division specializes in youth and professional exchange projects and international encounters with partners in Europe and the Mediterranean countries.
Mission and Objectives

To promote understanding, tolerance and mutual respect among young people who will become future decision makers and to introduce people from different cultures and communities to each other through international seminars.

Main Projects / Activities

Youth and professional exchange projects. Interfaith and women empowerment training courses. Cultural multi-lateral projects.

Contact (1) Full Name
Francoise Cafri
Head of the organisation
Francoise Cafri
Contact (2) Full Name
Merav Levy