Projects

Entity: PlaNet Finance
Project Type: Core
Duration of Support: Ongoing (2005 - )


PlaNet Finance is an international organization whose mission is to fight against poverty through the development of microfinance. PlaNet Finance offers a set of services via eight independent and specialized units whose primary objective is to develop an inclusive financial sector:
PlaNet...

Entity: KIEDF (Koret Israel Economic Development Fund)
Project Type: Core
Duration of Support: Ongoing (2006 - )

SAWA ("together" in Arabic) is a Solidarity Group Program that began operations in March 2006.The first loans were distributed in August 2006 and SAWA's office in Rahat opened in November that same year. In 2008 the program expanded its outreach to additional Bedouin...

Entity: CJAED (Center for Jewish-Arab Economic Development)
Project Type: Core
Duration of Support: Ongoing (2006 - )



CJAED together with Koret Israel Economic Development Fund (KIEDF) launched the SULAM Joint Loan Fund in partnership with Mercantile Discount Bank in August 2004.The fund helps Arab citizens of Israel secure bank loans to start new businesses or expand...

Entity: Tel Aviv University
Projcet Type: Core
Duration of Support: Ongoing (2003- )


The Evens Program for Conflict Reslution and Mediation was inaugurated in June 2003 as part of the Master's Program of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Tel Aviv University.The Evens Program is dedicated to the advancement of knowledge in the theory and practice of mediation and conflict...

Entity: Cooperation with the Jerusalem Foundation and the Bloomfield Science Museum in Jerusalem
Project Type:Core
Duration of Support: Ongoing (2006 - )



"Peace Labyrinth" is an international exhibition, which is based on a model developed by the Dutch organization "Peace Education Projects". It is displayed in different variations in a number of...

Entity: Khamees Fund - Scholarships and Support Fund for Higher Studies
Project Type: Core
Duration of Support: Ongoing (2004 - )


 
The Khamees Scholarships and Support Fund, established by an Israeli Arab, hands out scholarships for academic studies for Jewish and Arab students in Israel.The fund gave 600 scholarships during 2014, up to 2,500 NIS each.
The...

Entity: Association of the Jewish Historical Institute in Poland
Project Type: Non Core
Duration of Support: Ongoing (2005-) 
 

The Museum of the History of Polish Jews was opened for the public in 2013, on the site of the Warsaw Ghetto. This multimedia narrative museum and cultural center presents the history of Polish Jews and the rich civilization they created...

Entity: IBT
Project Type: Non-Core
Duration of Support: 1 year (2014)
 
Understanding the brain is one of humanity's biggest challenges, as it may lead to solving bigger worldwide problems. Israel Brain Technologies aims to accelerate Israel's brain technology cluster, to bring solutions faster to those in need. Brain disorders affect more than one billion people worldwide,...

Entity: Education for Life
Project Type: Core
Duration of Support: 2 years (2007 - 2008)


 
Education for Life is an international foundation whose aim is education towards well-being.The project's goal is to promote understanding and positive communication between students and teachers from Arab and Jewish Schools.
Support in the first year of activity (2007)...

Entity: Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow
Project Type: Non-Core
Duration of Support: Ongoing (2004 - )


 
The first Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow took place in 1988. It was organized in order to restore the memory of Polish Jews, to demonstrate their contribution to Polish history and culture, and finally, to reveal the richness of Jewish life in pre-war Poland.After...

Entity: Evens Foundation - Poland
Project Type: Non Core
Duration of Support: Ongoing  
The Poetry Unites Program is a nonprofit, educational initiative which aims to popularize poetry among different ages and backgrounds. Launched in Poland in 2006, the program reached hundreds of thousands of viewers with the help of the National TV, and has been extended to other countries...

Entity: Center for Contemporary Art
Project Type: Non-Core
Duration of Support: 5 years (2013-2017)
 
The Center for Contemporary Art is a non-profit organization aiming to foster international contemporary art disciplines with a focus on the Israeli community. The CCA produces 5 to 7 large-scale projects and exhibitions each year by leading Israeli and international...

Entity: Synergos
Project Type: Non-Core
Duration of Support: 2 years (2014-2016)
 

Malnutrition is widespread in Namibia, with nearly one in four children under five stunted and underweight. The Namibian government responded to its nutritional challenges by launching the Namibian Alliance for Improved Nutrition (NAFIN) in 2009 with the goal of developing and coordinating...

Entity: Peres Center for Peace - Business and Economics Department
Project Type: Non Core
Duration of Support: 2009 - support of the meeting in Paris ("Quai d'Orsay")

 
The Aix Group, a working group managed by the Business and Economics Department of the Peres Center for Peace, researches, produces and disseminates position papers that seek to identify economic scenarios...

Entity: Peres Center for Peace - Business and Economics Department
Project Type: Core
Duration of Support: 2008

 
The Peres Center for Peace, together with the Palestinian Shippers' Council (PSC), held an Import-Export Course at the Israeli Chamber of Commerce.The course aimed to offer Palestinian business professionals with advanced knowledge and training regarding...

Entity: Ben Gurion University
Projcet Type: Non Core
Duration of Support: 5 years (2004-2008) 

The Institutes for Desert Research were established in Sede-Boqer in 1974. Since their inception, the Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research (BIDR) at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) demonstrated a commitment to understanding the desert by establishing itself...

Entity: Tel Aviv University
Project Type: Non Core
Duration of Support: 8 years (2003-2010)

Established 15 years ago, the Stephen Roth Institute is one of the leading bodies in monitoring anti-Semitism worldwide.The Institute conducts research on cases from some 40 countries across the world with the cooperation of individuals, organizations, universities and research...

Entity: A New Way
Project Type: Core
Duration of Support: 7 years (2005 - 2011)


 
"A New Way" offers joint activities for children, bringing together two schools from Arab and Jewish communitiesThe project consists of weekly encounters (in the fields of art or science- rhythmic, drama, ecology, etc.), enabling participants to become familiar with the culture of...

Entity: Towns Association for Environmental Quality - Agan Beit Natufa - Sakhnin
Project Type: Core
Duration of Support: 4 years (2007-2010)

 
The Towns Association for Environmental Quality- Agan Beit Natufa (TAEQ), established in 1993, is active in various educational, planning, and engineering projects in Beit Natufa Basin (ABN) and in the Galilee.TAEQ's main project...

Entity: Hand in Hand Center for Jewish-Arab Education in Israel
Project Type: Core
Duration of Support: 2 years (2008-2009)
 
Hand in Hand Center for Jewish-Arab Education was founded in 1997 to build peace between Jews and Arabs in Israel through development of bilingual multi-cultural schools.
Bridge Over the Wadi School was established in 2004 as a fully integrated...

Entity: Windows
Projce Type: Core
Duration of Support: 2 years (2007 - 2008)

 
"Windows" is a joint organization of Jews, Israeli-Arabs and Palestinians. It was established in 1991 with the aim of promoting mutual understanding and reconciliation between people from both nations, through educational and cultural programs, and through the media and the arts.Windows'...

Entity: Tel Aviv University
Project Type: Core
Duration of Support: 2 years (2005 & 2007)


The Science Oriented Youth program in Tel Aviv University runs a project for high school students from Israeli's development towns and disadvantaged communities. The purpose of the project is to expose the students to the world of higher education by bringing them into...

Entity: Peres Center for Peace - Sport Department in cooperation with the Israel Tennis Center in Jerusalem
Project Type: Core
Duration of Support: 3 years (2006 - 2008) 

The Peres Center for Peace was founded in 1996 by former President of Israel Mr. Shimon Peres, with the aim of furthering his vision in which people of the Middle East region work together to build peace.Children...

Entity: Hommes de Parole
Project Type: Non-Core
Duration of Support: The Hommes de Parole received support for the Second and Third World Congresses of Imams and Rabbis for Peace (2006 & 2008)

The objective of the Hommes de Parole Foundation is to act on the causes of conflicts and give spiritual leaders an environment of absolute neutrality allowing them to meet, discuss...

Entity: Fredric Brenner
Project Type: Non Core
Duration of Support: 4 years (2008-2011)
THIS PLACE explores the complexity of Israel and the West Bank, as a place and a metaphor, through the eyes of twelve internationally acclaimed photographers.A select group of 12 photographers were invited to re-present Israel and the West Bank, looking beyond the dominance of the political...

Entity: De l'association Les Amis
Project Type: Non Core
Duration of Support: 2 years (2007- 2008)

The journal Le Meilleur des Mondes, expresses the ideas and thoughts of French intellectuals (journalists, writers, scholars, political leaders, NGO activists as well as religious leaders) aged 25 to 70.
The journal was founded in the wake of 9/11 and the Iraq War to...

Entity: THE EUROPEAN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER (EJCC)
Project Type: Non Core
Duration of Support: 10 years (2003-2012)
 

The European Jewish Community Center was established in 2001 with the aim of increasing awareness and understanding of Jewish life and culture to civil servants and officials of European institutions.The center hosts events and provides multi-lingual...

Entity: American Jewish Committee (AJC)
Project Type: Non Core
Duration of Support: 10 years (2003-2012) 

The American Jewish Committee (AJC) was established in 1906 by a small group of American Jews determined that the best way to protect Jewish populations in danger would be to work towards a world in which all peoples were accorded respect and dignity.
Over 100 years...

Entity: Rashi Foundation
Project Type: Core
Duration of Support: 8 years (2005 - 2012)  
  
Yad Rachel is an association that aims to give children from poor and distressed homes the gift of learning. Towards this end, it operates after-school educational frameworks for young children (aged 5-10) who suffer from learning difficulties due to cognitive, behavioral...

Entity: Un Coeur pour la Paix (A Heart for Peace)
Project Type: Core
Duration of Support: Assistance in covering the expenses of 6 operations during 2007-2008
The goal of "Heart for Peace"is to allow at least 50 Palestinian children per year, who suffer from fatal congenital cardiopathy, to undergo heart surgery at Hadassah Hospital free of charge. This condition requires advanced...

Entity Belffer Library
Project Type: Core
Duration of Support: 2006
 

 
Since 2004, the Belffer Library in Ramla (a city in central Israel), has operated the "From Story to Theatre" program for Jewish and Arab kindergarten children through its foundation - the Ramla Foundation for Education, Culture, and Development.The...

Entity: Notsar Theatre (The Association for Promoting Theatre in Jaffa)
Project Type: Core
Duration of Support: 2005 

The Notsar Theatre - Association for Promoting Theatre in Jaffa was created in 1991 with a clear emphasis on its involvement in the community, as an independent art institution, as well as an actor for social change.The Do Not Dislike the Unlike program...

Entity: The Arab Youth Movement with Hashomer Hatzair (Israeli Youth Movement)
Project Type: Core
Duration of Support: 2 years (2005 & 2006)
The Arab Youth Movement (AYM), established in 1994, is dedicated to enriching Arab youth's educational development throughout Israel. The movement serves Arab youth (aged 9 to 18) from all economic and religious backgrounds.The Twin Branches...

Entity: The Umm El-Fahim Art Gallery
Project Type: Core
Duration of Support: 2007

The Umm El-Fahim Art Gallery was established on 1996 as an initiative of local residents and artists who wanted to bring quality contemporary art to the city and its population, and to exhibit original Arab and Palestinian art.The gallery's major...

Entity: Kamah in Kibbutz Harduf
Project Type: Core
Duration of Support:2007

Beit Elisha provides a warm supportive community and therapeutic treatment for 55 developmentally and physically challenged adults.The adults suffer from congenital, trauma related, social and cognitive disabilities. They live in community homes and take an active role in the Kibbutz life.

Entity: The Jerusalem Foundation
Project Type: Non Core
Duration of Support: 3 years (2004 & 2005 & 2009) 

The Jerusalem Foundation was founded 40 years ago by the legendary Mayor of Jerusalem, Teddy Kollek. The Foundation has a long track record in creating and nurturing philanthropy projects in Israel.The Speaking Art Festival was initiated by the Jerusalem...

Entity: Aladdin
Project Type: Non-Core
Duration of Support: 2 years (2010-2011)
 
 
The Aladdin project is a credible platform for Jewish-Muslim exchange and partnership on educational and cultural initiatives. With a network of supporters throughout the Arab world, Aladdin reaches thousands of people, sharing the knowledge and understanding of the holocaust....

Entity: Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Project Type: Core
Duration of Support: 3 years (2010-2012)



 
The Ben Gurion University of the Negev is leading the international research on solar energies. Founded in 1986, the Ben Gurion National Solar Energy Center in Sede Boker has made some important scientific achievements. The construction of a new building...

Entity: Kav Mashve
Project Type: Core
Duration of Support: 1 year (2011)


 
Inequality and socioeconomic gaps in Israel make it more difficult for Arab citizens to fulfill their career aspirations, despite having no less professional and social capabilities. Kav Mashve is a nonprofit organization aiming to promote the employment of Arab academics, in jobs suited...

Entity: Merchavim Institute
Project Type: Core
Duration of Support: 2 years (2010-2011)

Integration of Arab-Israeli teachers in Israeli Jewish schools decreases the heavy unemployment rate among Israeli-Arab teachers, meets the high demands for teachers in the Israeli state and state-religious schools, while reinforcing democracy and providing an example of a shared society....

Entity: Minds of Peace
Project Type: Core
Duration of Support: 1 year (2012)


A delegation of 6 Israelis met with their Palestinian counterparts to openly discuss Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement and to encourage the governments to reach a lasting peace.  
"Minds of Peace" is a grass root effort to create the social conditions for peace in the Israeli-Palestinian...

Entity: Na Laga'at
Project Type: Core
Duration of Support: 1 year (2007)

Somewhat 1,000 deaf and blind people live in Israel today, in silence, darkness and solitude. Na Laga'at's primary goal is to fill the vacuum of services available for the deaf-blind population in Israel, and to serve as their voice and support. The group's theater productions are performed by Jewish...

Entity: UN Watch
Project Type: Non-Core
Duration of Support: 1 year (2011)
 
The United Nation is an international organization that brings together diverse nations and cultures. As such, it is often misused or asked to fulfill unattainable tasks. UN Watch is an accredited NGO that aims at monitoring the United Nations' performance, to combat anti-Semitism, Holocaust...