Beit Berl Academic College

National Network
Israel
Address

Beit Berel College,
Beit Berl 44905
Israel

Telephone
+972-9-7476272
Telephone (other)
+972-9-7476276
Fax
+972-9-7476285
E-Mail
ayallas@beitberl.ac.il
E-Mail (2)
liatv@beitberl.ac.il
Mobile Phone
+972-54-4639581
Organisation Type
Public Institution
Year of Establishment
1940
Fields of Activity
  1. Arts
  2. Democracy and community development
  3. Environment/Sustainable development
  4. Gender
  5. Heritage
  6. Human rights
  7. International/Cultural relations
  8. Others
  9. Religion
  10. Research
General Information
Beit Berl Academic College is a multidisciplinary institution of higher education, located in the Sharon region, about 20 Km northeast of Tel Aviv. It is named in honor of Berl Katzenelson, a prominent intellectual and one of the founding fathers of the Labor movement in Israel. The College was founded in the late 1940s as a school for activists of the Labor movement, which at that time was the leading political party in Israel. Since the early 1980s, however, its ties with the Labor movement were gradually dissolved, and from the early 1990s it became a fully independent academic college of education, accommodating all sectors of the Israeli population, academically accredited by the Council of Higher Education and budgeted by the Ministry of Education. Today Beit Berl Academic College, with over 6,000 students, is one of the largest teacher education colleges in Israel. It is committed to excellence in education and to the values of social justice and equality, humanism, Jewish-Arab co-existence and multiculturalism. The College's faculty has a distinguished research record in all academic fields, and has the highest rate of senior faculty members (senior lecturers and professors) among all colleges of education in Israel.
Mission and Objectives

The College encourages close ties with the surrounding communities – the towns and villages of the Sharon district, both Jewish and Arab. The College maintains partnerships with local kindergartens and schools, serving as sites for the practical training and professional development of future teachers. The Department of Non-Formal Education and the Department of Youth Care work with community centers, boarding schools and foster families for displaced youths. For the broader public, the College also organizes several public lectures, exhibitions, academic conferences and enrichment programs in various fields.

Main Projects / Activities

"The Enhancement of Multicultural Dialog and Mutual Understanding
by Studying the heritage of the 3 religions Judaism, Islam and Christianity”
Producing a book of children stories in Arabic and Hebrew - for the use of a Multy cultural kindergarten and junior school
Religion Studies as an Arena for Civic Discourse
Targets
 to enable the participants through a better understanding of the different cultures and religions to a better conflict-management, to solve or even prevent conflicts;
 to establishment a sustainable social partnership among the various ethnical groups;
 to learn how to dialog;
 to learn and discuss a basic knowledge of the three religions and their values in order to prevent religious fundamentalism;
 To generate curiosity, interest and motivation for learning the view of the other.

Contact (1) Full Name
Ayalla Shwartz
Head of the organisation
Prof. Tamar Ariav
Contact (2) Full Name
Liat Vizman