Israel

Educational and Vocational Training:
Arab students in high schools have a low transition rate to higher education institutes resulting in diminished employment opportunities.  This program aims to empower and support marginalized Arab youth in high schools through counseling and guidance (both educational and vocational), and become socially and academically developed members of the Arab society.  This program also aims to increase the amount of Arab students seeking higher-education by providing them with the necessary information and assistance that the high schools cannot afford to provide.
This project works in cooperation with Arab schools through workshops, lectures, publications, website, educational fairs-festival, University summer camp and more in order to extend the accessibility to higher education.  The workshops include subjects such as the Psychometric exam, learning disabilities, parents' guidance, completing university registration forms, university requirements, and assistance choosing a career path. The educational fairs, festivals and lectures familiarize students with various university related topics, university students and staff.
 
Sawa Project:
The Committee for Educational Guidance (CEGAS)'s Sawa Project encourages volunteerism and works towards creating a civic society with a main goal of empowering the Arab community of Haifa and its environments.  It focuses on building an independent infrastructure amongst the Arab community by working in places such as schools, public gardens, homes, and educational centers.  The volunteers who are active with Sawa are from different ages and groups; each is active in the Haifa region in a different way.  Moreover, a part of the activists volunteer in the neighboring city of Tamra.  Sawa has been present for the past two years and CEGAS has managed to expand its activities with an active steering committee, bigger exposure, a large database of volunteers and interest groups.  This project is unique in the sense that it boosts the value of volunteerism within society with the sole purpose of creating a better one.

Organising international Conferences -Washington 2009; Paris 2012; Rome 2016; Berlin 2017
Publications: The Diary of Clement Houri; Volume of articles: North Africa and its Jews: New research; Peamim: volume on North African Jewry during the Holocaust; Revue d'Histoire de la Shoah: Les Juif d'Orient face au nazisme et a la Shoah
Three websites (French, Hebrew and English
Facebook pages in English, Hebrew, Arabic and French
Three online pedagogical units
Collecting archival materials from archives in France, Germany, USA, England and Italy

EMIS runs the: Educators dialogue Circle project  that includes 9 partnering school from The Palestinian Autority: West Bank and Gaza, E. Jerusalem and Israel , Annual Youth collaboration of Peace and Sustainability Conference, Model United Nations, Green team club and Peace and sustainability programs
In addition our students volanteer in several NGOs.
Our Model United Nations program team hosts groups from abroad as well as travells to meetings in other countries.

FORTH works on two platforms: a website and a community outreach program. The Forum includes a singularly diversified group of writers: academics, social activists, Arab intellectuals, and retired IDF and security researchers. Out of this pool of writers, we send lecturers to speak in front of target audiences, including pre-military leadership academies

Program Framework
The Galilee Dreamers program is structured as a three-year program. The overall curriculum aims to create personal connections between cultures and narratives, strengthen personal identity through historical knowledge and cultural heritage, and recognize the other's identity and perceptions of history while building a framework of joint living. For two years 10th and 11th grade students participate in monthly activities. They will learn program content while building and strengthening their connections. Zoom meetings will allow for connection between the Jewish and Arab schools in Israel and a third partner high school abroad. In the third year, participants volunteer to lead initiatives in schools and communities.
In the second year, Arab and Jewish 11th graders, all citizens of Israel, travel together and are hosted by their partner community abroad. This experience leads to bonding between the members of the delegation, all of whom are now off the “battlefield,” speaking a foreign language, and learning about a foreign culture. They engage in discussions on the challenges of living in a shared society in a complex global reality. Communication with the host communities who themselves report on benefits received, is facilitated through online learning and social media before and after the trip.
In the third year, the Jewish and Arab 12th graders will voluntarily initiate different leadership projects within their communities in light of the Galilee Dreamers' values and their own experience and insights following their involvement.

Green Cities – Empowering Arab Local Authorities with tools for better and safer waste management. Supported by the EU, this project is a cooperation between the GS, Arab LAs and a Palestinian environmental NGO in the West Bank.
Gender- and Minority- Mainstreaming of the Israeli National Budget – Supported by the EU, this project relies on a partnership between three local Palestinian NGOs in Israel.
The project targets the roots of Palestinian women's poverty through working vis-à-vis the government, Palestinian civil society and women to create a more equal allocation of budgets at the national level. The 2010 Palestinians in Israel Socio-Economic Survey – offers the most reliable surveying of the Palestinian community in Israel, this study is conducted every three years and provides at alternative to the formal statistics of the Israeli CBS. Cross-Sector Forum on Health Gaps – Engagement with government, other NGO and Arab leaders to device solutions for narrowing health inequities in Israel

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.

Research and creativity have always been the cornerstone of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem since its inception in 1928. For over 80 years, Hebrew University researchers have not only carried out outstanding basic research, but have also responded to the needs of society. The University is justly proud of its position at the cutting edge of world science. Its researchers publish widely in leading international scientific and scholarly journals, conduct collaborative research projects with noted scholars from other countries and compete successfully for research grants from international and national funding sources. HU researchers figure at the forefront of international science - from biotechnology and computer science to astrophysics and cancer research, from microbiology to solar energy and genetic engineering, as well as the humanities, social sciences and law.

The Environmental Fellows Program, which is the backbone of the Center's work, is a year-long program designed to train a cadre of leaders from throughout Israeli society to be effective agents of social change. The program meets once a week throughout the year laying out the principles of sustainability and focusing on strategic thinking about systemic change.
Other main projects include: the Green School Network, which, in partnership with the Karev Educational Initiative, develops programs that support schools in Israel to heighten environmental literacy and "action competence"; the Center for Local Sustainability, which aims to advance the capacity for sustainability in Israeli local government by raising awareness and providing training, tools, and support networks for local government officials, advocates, architects, planners and mayors, to develop pilot projects in their communities; and the Media Project, intended to raise the quality and quantity of environmental reporting in Israel, through an integrated series of initiatives to engage key journalists in the sustainability agenda and issues, and through the annual awarding The Pratt Prize for Environmental Journalism in recognition of cutting-edge environmental reporting at the national, local, and community levels.

Through creating a home for leaders and developing and disseminating ideas and skills, the Heschel Center:
Creates frameworks through which potential change agents can become sustainability leaders, and support the implementation of their initiatives.
Connects theoretical knowledge with practical skills, and spreads the vision of broad sustainability in creative ways.
Heschel's flagship initiative, The Sustainability Leaders Fellows Program, now concluded its 19th cohort of 14 new Fellows, continues to be the leading training program for social-environmental leaders in Israel. With 340 alumni, the Fellowship represents leadership in diversity. The program targets potential change makers in positions of influence – business, politics (including several MKs), media, free professions, social change; Jews and Arabs, religious and secular, Ashkenazi and Mizrahi Jews, center and periphery—providing them an in-depth learning process along with the tools to develop joint projects that have a real and lasting impact. The successful alumni network implements our vision of promoting sustainability through a widening interlinked community, whose work we catalyze and nurture
The Center for Local Sustainability works directly with municipalities, regional councils, and their leadership and professional staffs in national and local training programs tailor made for their realities and needs, and has created 20 Local Sustainability Centers in the social and geographic periphery of Israel.
The Center for Sustainability Studies provides intensive transformative learning courses for leaders, professionals and change agents from all over Israel, currently including: Strategic Planning for Sustainability, Community-Based Sustainable Education, Regional Fellows programs, and tailor-made programs for different organizations and institutions such as the Israeli Scouts, Israel Nature and Parks Authority, and the Society of Nature Protection in Israel. 
The Center is focusing its efforts on developing a new online platform to engage a more massive amount of people and bring them to the world of sustainability. 
The Israel 2050 Project (The Heschel Climate Project) 
Probably our most ambitious wide-scale collaboration yet is the multi-sectoral participatory process for the Israel 2050 plan, which Heschel has spearheaded as part of the climate initiative. Inspired by the Paris Climate Accords, Heschel headed the 2016 Maof Seminar, which led to our recruiting relevant officials in the Israeli government and convincing them to champion the Israeli Climate Plan 2050, which includes a complete transition to renewable energies. After engaging with various stakeholders to join the process, we organized the largest climate convention in Israel's history, with a separate event that included 11 roundtables, and that has laid the foundation for the 2050 plan.
The Heschel Center has succeeded in recruiting leading strategic partners in government, civil society and industry: five central government ministries (Energy, Transportation, Industry, Treasury, Environment), the OECD, the IDI (Israel Democracy Institute), and the Manufacturers Association of Israel. Through our work with key people in the government, we have convinced the government to be the lead partner, and to adopt the program as a government initiative, with all that entails. As part of our plan for a broad-based process, we have enlisted a wide range of supporters from civil society, academia and the commercial-industrial sector. Additionally, we have prepared a professional knowledge base and relevant materials that will serve the working groups in the multi-sectoral participatory process of fulfilling the Israel 2050 plan. We have also developed a methodology for locating and successfully utilizing experts from abroad who can share their experience and best practices from processes similar to those we are trying to promote.
Today, the Heschel Center is focusing on bringing the voices of the underserved - people with disabilities, youth at risk, the elderly, etc - to the 2050 planning process and ensuring that the plans are bettering their conditions.
In addition, the Heschel Center has launched its Renewable Energy Project, aiming to develop a plan for Israel to transform to a 100% renewable energy economy. The plan includes an important component of proving the economic case for a weak municipality to earn income by providing renewable energy for its residents.