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Some of our main projects include: providing legal aid to non-unionized truck drivers and excavation workers, promoting social entrepreneurship, supporting agency workers, helping the unemployed, highlighting work immigrants’ issues, and more. We conducted a successful 2-year pilot of Youth for Social Change, a program that goes into periphery high schools and works with students, both Arab and Jewish, informing them of their rights, developing leadership skills, and creating inter-ethnic dialog as they make tough decisions about life after school. We also work with Arab women setting them up with seasonal agricultural employment. Arab women are desperate for work and currently are employed through subcontractors who exploit their vulnerability. We work directly with farmers and these women to set up relationships for direct employment thus leading to fair wages and employment conditions. We also provide one year of training to educate these women as to their rights and how to properly seek employment independently.

In eight years, through its 14 Citizen Rights Centers and 6 Satellite Offices, YEDID has had a significant impact upon communities and citizens from Dimona to Kiryat Shmona. In 2005 YEDID provided real solutions to the pressing problems of nearly 35,000 Israelis. The most frequent cases involved education, housing, employment, healthcare, and debt. YEDID has developed a range of community-based educational programs designed to empower community members and give them the tools to be active and effective members of society. In recognition of YEDID’s expertise in working with low-income communities, many municipal offices have commissioned YEDID to design programming for their clients.

The studio maintains a three-year study program for actors, preparatory courses in acting studies, and the general public.. As part of the training to become professional actors, the acting students are committed to lead 16 drama groups with in the community such as: youth at-risk, immigrant's children in distress, children with special needs and emotional problems, blinds and partly blinds, elderly and many more. Furthermore, we have subscription project for the residents of our neighborhood, who can attend the shows which are produced in our theatre hall. For most of the people in the community it is the first time in their lives to see theatre.

In the past Euro Med Action 1, 2 and 5 projects (coordinators, senders and hosts) in the future we would also like to expand through the involvement of projects of the ALF.

• We are a member of a network of Euro-med youth organisations, working together against racism, xenophobia and violence.
YOFI, with its'' staff of volunteers, which all have strong roots in the heritage and education work in the city, has taken on it self several projects, and working in a large verity of themes: Among them, a large project of embracing and supporting families of new immigrants. Helping them absorb into the Israeli society and the employment circle; Daily work with Down syndrome children, helping them with their most basic needs, and more.

Zefat Academic Colleg is turning to the Anna Lindh Foundation to fund a dialogue program amongst the student body, and a multicultural training program for professors.

Les principaux projets et activités de Beit Esther sont :
Pour la médiation psychosociale,
- le Club Beit Esther, lieu d’accueil et espace de rencontre comprenant des activités sociales et éducatives
- le centre médical et psycho-social qui met en place un service de soin gratuit et d’accompagnement à long terme pour les population en rupture de lien social.
Concernant la médiation intergénérationnelle,
- les projets en cours de maisons de la parentalité à Ashdod, Sderot et Jérusalem : lieux d’accueil ayant pour but de renforcer le lien parents-enfants, auprès de populations nouvellement immigrées et des familles monoparentales.
Dans le cadre de la médiation interculturelle,
- le collège doctoral : structure académique d’échanges entre doctorants français, israéliens et palestiniens,
- des conférences et séminaires annuels entre professionnels palestiniens et israéliens sur la pratique sociale et humanitaire des deux régions,
- le projet de création d’une maison euro-israélo-palestinienne de médiation interculturelle et artistique.

Cinema Workshops, Conferences, Group moderator, Filmmaker. Our next project will happen in Switzerland "CinemAction" Project. It will invite filmmakers from all over the world to create short films with yourh around themes that concerns their future. The films will be based on the Lahav NGO method, an educative creative cinematographic process that give birth to short films seen by millions of people all around the world.: https://www.youtube.com/user/LahavNPA/about?disable_polymer=1

1.Raise awareness to the landscape through the physical unveiling of the Nakba in the Israeli landscape - by coordinating visits to and commemorations of Palestinian villages destroyed by Israel in 1948;
2.Expose Israeli educators to the Nakba and encourage them to teach about it using Zochrot's study-guide; using that study-guide to teach a growing number of Israelis about the Nakba through learning groups, workshops and conferences;
3.Develop ideas for possible practices for Palestinian return through lectures, workshops, joint Jewish Israeli-Palestinian publications and projects in the Israeli landscape;
4.Encourage creation through art and writing, in order to develop new cultural tools for a new civic language and a critical public discourse on the Nakba;
5.Develop and disseminate original materials - developed by Zochrot and by others using Zochrot's help - about the Nakba, increasingly using the platform of Zochrot's new and developing website;
6.Increase active outreach to the Jewish-Israeli public through different means, including social media and approaches to the media;
7.Influence decision makers regarding the dedication of land in Israel - through advocacy work that aims to halt the continued destruction of Palestinian heritage by the state of Israel and for signposting of Palestinian sites destroyed by Israel in 1948;

ZUMU seeks to flip the traditional role of the museum and its participants, inviting each city to become the host of this ambitious and exciting project. In its cargo containers, adapted in order to become art laboratories, especially commissioned artworks will be displayed, inviting people to partake into an adventurous cultural and contemporary art journey.
Besides the museum, ZUMU consists of four sub-projects, which altogether collaborate to enhance local cultural capital and promote coexistence, heritage conservation, artistic creativity and individual empowerment. They are: “Time Capsule”, an on-going documentary of Israel’s periphery, through the digital catalogue of artifacts, brought by the project’s participants from their own homes, which translate into culture and heritage significance; “What’s Your Story”, that works with children, youth and adults in order to develop their writing tools, aiming the production of original stories which will turn into theater plays featuring professional actors; “Community Container”, a designated container which displays local artists’ works, and the “Public Program”, a lively multicultural platform for individuals of all ages, which invites the audience to participate in events and activities connected to multi-disciplinary forms of art and culture expressions.