Municipality of Raanana

National Network
Israel
Address

103, AHUZA STREET,
43100 RAANANA
Raanana
Israel

Telephone
0097297610710
Fax
0097297610510
E-Mail
raanana@7sois.org
E-Mail (2)
A-YAAR@RAANANA.MUNI.IL
Website
http://www.raanana.muni.il
Organisation Type
Local/Regional Authority
Year of Establishment
1922
Fields of Activity
  1. International/Cultural relations
General Information
Our organisation is a municipality which is a Public Law Body, in charge of the administration of our city: Raanana. It is our responsibility to satisfy to the needs (education, infrastructures, environment, culture, security…) of our citizens offering them the maximum number of services and services of quality. As a municipality, we have an equip who is working in different areas whose one is dedicated to the Culture. In 2008, our total budget was about 17800 000euros. Our principal financial source is the government. In the area of the culture, Raanana is a very active city: we have a hall, festivals, dance and theatre companies…But actually, we would like to develop it, to connect it with other areas like education, environment care…and to make it more international.
Mission and Objectives

As we already said, we try to fulfil the needs of our inhabitants and we believe that the Culture is one of these needs to get to the dialogue and an eventual harmony. We would like to welcome more international shows to get to know other culture and to send artist from our region for people to get to know our culture, and to keep alive our traditions. We think to have the same goals than the Anna Lindh Foundation, and joining this organisation would make easier to realize the previous objectives as it would permit to develop the cooperation between countries surrounding the Mediterranean.

Main Projects / Activities

The municipality of Raanana realize and take part in lots of projects, whose lots of them participate to the cultural stimulation of our territory.
One of them is related to the ALF (and we would like to do more like it), we have the project to realize and to develop the Festival Sete Sóis Sete Luas in Raanana (and maybe to extend it to other regions). This project is based on the artistic mobility. So, during the Festival in Raanana, we welcome artists who are part of our Cultural network (Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Greece, Croatia, Morocco and maybe this year Tunisia) and we are sending artists from our region to play in these countries. There are, as well, other projects, like the creation of Mediterranean orchestra. It is a very rich project for our citizens.

Contact (1) Full Name
Avishai Ya’ar
Head of the organisation
Nahum Hofree (mayor)