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Shared Society:

Leadership for Pupils

A key aspect of our program is bringing together youth from different school sectors and improving their relationships. Therefore, this innovative program is designed as a multi-sector intervention. Program participants develop leadership skills geared towards enhancing cohesion in their schools and communities based on the ability to promote dialogue in conflict situations, mediate in times of crises and encourage acknowledgment and respect for others’ worldview, culture, and religious beliefs. With an innovative toolbox of skills to reduce exclusion, alienation, fragmentation, and indifference in their close communities, these adolescents will campaign for shared responsibility, tolerance, equality and inclusivity within Israel’s increasingly divided society.

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WHAT WE DO: Programs

Program

Structure

The Shared Society Leadership Program consists of two parts: First, we hold group meetings with a selected group of pupils within each sector. Second, we have multi-sector meetings, bringing together the different groups of selected pupils in each sector. Each program participant is involved in about 10-15 group meetings as well as 5-7 multisector meetings.

Yoni Tsuna, CEO of the Matzmichim, explains the vision behind NAMAL program

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Election of Program Participants

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Summer Journey

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Host School Meetings

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Group Teams

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Senior Program

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Multi-Sector Meeting

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Parent & Student Meeting

Shared Society:

Courses for Educators

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Making a Difference

Through our Shared Society Workshops for educational professionals, we promote professional and personal relationships between the participants from different backgrounds and thus, across the sectors of Israeli society.

Course participants talk about their experience

WHAT WE DO: Programs For Educators

"Mixed Society" 

to a

"Shared Society"

Working Towards a Better Tomorrow

Over the past decades, cooperation between Arabs and Jews has been increasing in Israel, especially in cities with a population with different ethnic and religious backgrounds (so-called “mixed cities”). Still, there is much which needs to be done in order to increase social cohesion and reduce tensions and violence between different groups due to prejudice and racism. 

 

Therefore, we invite both Jewish and Arab educators to our Shared Society Courses in order to participate in a joint learning process. This leads to the acknowledgment of the similarity of the problems and challenges they face in their educational work as well as realizing their shared interest and values. The workshop participants come from different education sectors (the education system in Israel is divided into 4 different small systems) with the hope to cooperate through common goals to find and implement effective solutions for violence and racism in their educational settings, promoting tolerance and acceptance towards others and increasing social cohesion in their classrooms and communities. Our role is to create a safe space, allowing open and honest discussions as well as an appreciation for the sharing of professional experience.

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We bring together teachers and educators that are otherwise facing their challenges in isolation within a segregated school system. Through our Shared Society Workshops for educational professionals, we promote professional and personal relationships between the participants from different backgrounds and thus, across the sectors of Israeli society.

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