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from all your friends at Givat Haviva
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Passover is a festival of liberty, a celebration of freedom for all, and this year especially, is a time to reflect on the sanctity of that freedom and the ways we can all work to ensure freedom and equality for all our neighbors, friends and family no matter their identity.
Givat Haviva works for this purpose all year, every year - to create a shared and equal society in which no person or nation is subject to oppression in prevention of their liberty. Our wish is to create a State of Israel in which this sentiment is honored, in which there is equality and liberty for all, regardless of sex, race, religion or nationality.
Join us to make shared society a living, thriving reality on the ground in Israel by investing in Givat Haviva's superior shared society programming today. Today is about equality, democracy, shared society and a new vision of the future. It’s about transforming our frustrations with the current situation in Israel into concrete visions for the future and bold plans for action. It’s about coming together, learning, making new friends and meeting new partners. It’s about becoming part of an exciting, essential and historic movement at a crucial moment in our history.
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May your Pesach overflow with happiness,
May you always be blessed with peace,
prosperity and togetherness.
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Celebrating the Successes of our Annual Shared Society Conference on March 30th
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Givat Haviva's fifth Annual Shared Society Conference was a highly informative, inspiring and memorable day on our beautiful campus a few weeks ago. The day was packed full of rousing speeches, exciting cultural performances, thought-provoking panels, and the opportunity to meet and connect with amazing people from all over the world who are working for an equal and shared society in Israel.
The focus of this year's Conference was to present our
Roadmap for a Shared Society, a project made possible by the European Union with the goal of engaging 70 Jewish and Arab experts representing a broad spectrum of Israeli society to create a practical policy paper for the promotion of a shared society in Israel. The Conference served as a platform for the presentation of over 100 Recommendations in five distinct fields: Governance, Culture, Education, Economic Development and Land Use.
We also opened up the next phase of the program during the Conference - public engagement. This process involves a series of public town hall meetings, online engagement through Ynet, Israel's largest and most popular news and content website, and Bokra, Israel's leading Arabic online news source. The purpose of this outreach is to not only raise awareness of the recommendations and increase public support, but also to generate public feedback which will help formulate priorities within the recommendations.
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This past month was quite busy for the Education Department, who facilitated four two-day seminars on "Coming of Age in a Shared Public Space" for middle and high school students in our Shared Communities Arab and Jewish towns.
Find out more about this program here.
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Samer Atamni, Director of the Education Department, opened up the
International Conference on Education last Saturday. Below is a great photo of the day with special guest - Finland Ambassador Anu Saarela.
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Looking Back -
Yaniv Sagee and Mohammad Darawshe's
Visit to the US
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This past month our NYC office was lucky enough to host both our Executive Director, Yaniv Sagee, and our Director of the Center for Equality & Shared Society, Mohammad Darawshe.
Our leaders were featured in prominent outreach events, conferences and lectures from Washington, DC to New York and the Mid West. Mohammad and Yaniv brought contextual knowledge of the realities in Israel coupled with the actual progress and hope for a Shared Society that goes on every day at Givat Haviva’s campus.
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An intimate event hosted by our
Board Co-Chair, Michael Blechman, to introduce Givat Haviva's work and mission for shared society to new supporters and friends.
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For our friends in Madison, WI - Yaniv is speaking at the
University of Wisconsin Hillel tonight at 6:30pm! Join us for a rare opportunity to hear what's happening on the ground in Israel.
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Mohammad & Yaniv were hosted at
Fordham University for a panel discussion on shared society in Israel. We also spent the morning in meetings with Provost Dr. Stephen Freedman discussing future partnerships on our Co. Lab campus.
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Mohammad Darawshe featured at the
AIPAC Conference in Washington, DC for a panel on
"Minorities in Israel: Israel's Arab Israeli Community". Mohammad's expert perspective was instrumental in providing insights into the reality of Israel's minority Arab population.
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If you are interested in
hosting a Givat Haviva speaker in your synagogue, mosque, home or community center,
please reach out to Alex.
Stay connected by visiting our
website:
www.givathaviva.org
Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/Givat-Haviva-Educational-Foundation-922518627761703/
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