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Center for Jewish-Arab Education in Israel
HAND IN HAND
2016 -17ANNUAL REPORT
CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRAEL
Hand in Hand
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5 A Message from Hand in Hand CEO Shuli Dichter
7 Introducing Hand in Hand’s New CEO - Dani Elazar
8 Background: Overcoming Systemic Divisions
11 Mission & Strategy 12 A Cycle of Growth 15 Map of Schools & Communities
16 Awards
20 Our Schools
22 Jerusalem 24 Wadi Ara 26 Galilee 28 Jaffa 30 Haifa 32 Kfar Saba
36 Alumni
40 Adult Communities
44 Education Department
48 Dialogue
50 Recognition & Visitors
52 Media
54 Growth
56 Financials
65 Donor Recognition
I am blessed to have the opportunity to serve such a flourishing movement.
As I visit our schools and communities, the most heartwarming aspect of my position is the opportunity that I have to meet with thousands of families around the country who are joining us every day in practicing shared society. My passion is reinforced every time I hear their stories about how our schools and communities are affecting their extended family and all of their friends, influencing their attitudes and touching their lives.
Hand in Hand’s dual strategy – working with schools and adult communities – has proven itself this year in every one of our six locations. Our schools and communities are offering people a chance to live their lives and raise their families in an environment of equality and integration. Beyond these locations, we are showing Israel and the world that shared society between Jews and Arabs is a real, viable and growing reality.
In the 2016-17 year, we welcomed 1,578 Jewish and Arab students throughout our six schools. This represents year on year growth of 19% - and provided an opportunity for 250 new Jewish and Arab students and families to join our bilingual schools. In addition to the addition of new classes, we also began our expansion into a new elementary school in Haifa. This inaugural first grade class will now grow annually until it becomes a fully integrated elementary school for all of Haifa’s citizens. In the upcoming year, we will continue this pace of growth, adding close to 200 new families to our network. Truly we are becoming a movement that touches all corners of Israel.
But my favorite moment of the year was the graduation ceremony of our high school students in Jerusalem – the largest graduating class in our history. These young adults are going to go forth into the world as ambassadors for Hand in Hand’s vision of tolerance and integration. They will go to study, to serve, to travel, and they will take with them all of the values and experiences from their years at Hand in Hand. I wish them all strength and courage in their conviction as they begin this new phase in their lives.
Thank you to all of our partners, in Israel and around the world, for joining the Hand in Hand family as we continue this path together.
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*After 8 years leading Hand in Hand, Shuli is stepping down from his position. Dani Elazar will succeed Shuli as CEO on January 1, 2018.
A MESSAGE FROM HAND IN HAND CEO SHULI DICHTER
Shuli Dichter, CEO Hand in Hand2011-2017
To the Hand in Hand family,
This year I will begin my new position as Executive Director of Hand in Hand. I am joining Hand in Hand with humility, knowing the many great things the organization has achieved. I arrive with great enthusiasm and excitement for the tremendous opportunity that stands before us.
During the length of my career until now, I have been part of numerous exciting ventures: growing a high-tech company; establishing an educational and community organization that promotes shared society among people with different Jewish outlooks and orientations; developing and scaling a Shalom Hartman Institute program that strengthens pluralistic Judaism in Israeli society; and founding the “From the Wells” initiative that promotes education toward shared society based on mutual text studies from three cultures - Islam, Judaism and Christianity.All of these experiences have provided a pathway that has led me to Hand in Hand.
Now I begin a new journey, one that focuses on one of the greatest and most important challenges facing Israel: relations between its Jewish and Arab citizens and the creation of equality and a shared society. I believe that education provides the foundation for a shared society, for meeting and knowing the other, and overcoming the alienation and the hostility that exists between Jews and Arabs in Israel.
I am joining an organization that has done tremendous work until now in establishing a foundation of six groundbreaking schools in Jerusalem, the Galilee, Wadi Ara, Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Haifa and Kfar Saba. I am joining a dedicated and professional staff of teachers, educators and community organizers who are introducing a cutting-edge curriculum into the public education system, and running critical programming for thousands of adults around the country. Looking to the future, we are facing the challenge of bringing this vision for shared society to wider segments across Israeli society.
I look forward to getting to know you all, and I wish for all of us great success in our efforts to promote shared society and equality here in Israel.
Dani Elazar, CEO Hand in Hand
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INTRODUCING HAND IN HAND’S NEW CEO - DANI ELAZAR
Israel is a deeply divided society with approximately 6,218,000 Jews and 1,719,000 Palestinian-Arabs. The division between Arab and Jewish citizens is reflected in institutions; culture; national identity; socioeconomic status; and stances on the character of the state, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and other fundamental issues.
Divided into Jewish Secular, National Religious, Ultra-Orthodox, and Arab tracks, students enrolled in different Israeli public school streams do not meet one another. A September 2016 official report presented to the Knesset by the Israel State Comptroller’s office stresses the grave consequences of our split system:
THE RECOMMENDED SOLUTION
Bilingual, integrated education is one of the report’s key recommendations for the Ministry of Education to “deal comprehensively, intensively, methodically, compellingly and structurally with the subject of education for prevention of racism and for a shared society. This is essential in order to change students’ behavior patterns.”
At Hand in Hand, our body of programs is a direct actualization of the Comptroller’s recommendations that directly and thoughtfully addresses the harmful results of segregated education systems in Israel. Hand in Hand is working to change Israeli society one student, one family, one community, and one city at a time.
Education for a Shared Society and Prevention of Racism, September 2016
“ Separation from the age of preschool through to the end of Grade 12 prevents the groups from getting acquainted with each other and strengthens the social alienation and suspicions toward the other or those that are different… it is difficult to exaggerate the importance of education and its pivotal position in the education system in eradicating hatred and racism ”
OVERCOMING SYSTEMIC DIVISIONS
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MISSIONBuild a shared society for all Jews & Arabs in Israel by educating toward understanding, respect, and equality in our children and ourselves for a more just and peaceful world.
STRATEGYDevelop a growing network of integrated Arab-Jewish schools immersing children in bilingualism and innovative learning, enriched by diverse adult community engagement, day-in and day-out, for long term impact.
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COMMUNITY BUILDS A SCHOOLEach Hand in Hand school begins with a cohort of active Jewish and Arab parents with a dream to educate their children together in an environment of true equality and mutual respect. These parents become our partners to create every new branch of Hand in Hand.
Our professional staff develop this grassroots enthusiasm, and work with the Ministry of Education, local municipalities, and other partners to bring this dream to life.
A SCHOOL IS BORNWith the foundation set, the school begins by opening preschool classes, which grow year by year into a fully-fledged elementary school. High demand from local parents allows the schools to maintain relatively balanced numbers of Jewish and Arab children. Every family that joins our school is making an active choice to educate their children in partnership with ‘the other’.
SCHOOL BUILDS A COMMUNITYWith time, the impact of our model reaches far beyond the school walls. Facilitated by our Shared Communities program, parents and friends form a vibrant adult community, brought together by their values and belief that living together in a shared society is possible. Through parents’ activism, community events in the public sphere, and growing media attention, our story spreads to the wider public, affecting policy makers and demonstrating to all Israeli citizens what a shared society of Jews and Arabs can look like.
A CYCLE OF GROWTH
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Bilingual Integrated School
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HAND IN HAND SCHOOLS & COMMUNITIES
Jerusalem
Haifa
Ja�a
Kfar Saba
Wadi Ara
Galilee
In the 2016-17 program year Hand in Hand received unprecedented tribute, continuing a trend of formal recognition of the educational value of Hand in Hand’s bilingual and integrated model.
DISTRICT EDUCATION PRIZE – WADI ARA SCHOOLHand in Hand’s Wadi Ara school in Kafr Qara was awarded the Haifa District Education Prize for its success in combining academic excellence with critical thinking and the promotion of tolerance and mutual respect. The District Supervisors declared that:
“This school has developed an educational model that shows us all that it is possible for students from different cultures to learn together in two languages, and have meaningful dialogue, with respect and with an ability to listen to the other […] This school has a significant impact and is changing the direction of education in Israel.”
DISTRICT EDUCATION PRIZE – THE MAX RAYNE HAND IN HAND SCHOOL FOR BILINGUAL EDUCATION IN JERUSALEMThe prestigious Jerusalem Education Prize is awarded to schools that have a magnified impact on their students, families and the city around them. The prize committee declared that:
”This school acts as an example to all the residents of Jerusalem. We adults must learn from the students of this school how to live together, how to learn together, and how to promote co-existence so that it seeps into the consciousness of all the city’s inhabitants.”
MINISTRY OF EDUCATION LIST OF TOP HIGH SCHOOLS IN THE COUNTRYThe Max Rayne Hand in Hand Jerusalem Highs School was included on the Ministry of Education’s List of top 71 high schools in Israel. Hand in Hand was recognized as a countrywide leader in excellence in education, values, and social mission.
MORE HIGHLIGHTSThe Jerusalem Elementary School was ranked 1st in the city in mathematics on the National Generalized Testing Program (2016).
In March 2017, Hand in Hand Jerusalem students competed in the top 20 teams at the finals of the prestigious Israeli National Cyber and Mathematics Competition.
Almost one-third of Jerusalem high school students received outstanding results on their national matriculation exams, four times the national average.
AWARDS
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Nadia Kinane, principal of our Jerusalem elementary school, receiving the Jerusalem Education Authority prize from Mayor Nir Barkat, March 2017.
SCHOOLS SHAPING A NEW GENERATION
SCHOOLS SHAPING A NEW GENERATION
Hand in Hand is dedicated to creating an inclusive shared society in Israel through a network of integrated bilingual schools and organized shared communities that replace the divisiveness, fear, and mistrust often shaping the relationship between Arab and Jewish populations of Israel. Starting in 1998 with 50 children in two classes in Jerusalem and the Galilee, Hand in Hand has grown to six schools throughout the country. Our schools are located in Jerusalem, the Galilee, Wadi Ara, Haifa, Jaffa, and Kfar Saba, each surrounded by a vibrant and active
adult community. In 2016-17, our six schools enrolled 1,578 Jewish and Arab students with hundreds more on waiting lists.
Two co-teachers work as a team in most Hand in Hand classrooms, with a Jewish, Hebrew-speaking teacher working together with an Arab, Arabic-speaking teacher. Teachers also bring multiple cultures into the classroom and focus attention on the values, history, and heritages of each population. Co-teaching partnerships remain at the heart of Hand in Hand’s educational messaging, teaching bilingualism
while modeling cross-cultural respect and appreciation.
While all Hand in Hand schools and most preschools are public, receiving core support from the Ministry of Education and local municipalities, the Hand in Hand educational model invests added resources to support the co-teaching model; pedagogical training and guidance; facilitated dialogue for staff; and multicultural curriculum development.
Our students share experiences on a daily basis, learning each other’s languages, cultures and histories in an environment of equality and mutual respect.
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OUR INTEGRATED BILINGUAL
SCHOOLS
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Jerusalem is our flagship location, with almost 700 students from preschool through 12th grade. The school was launched almost 20 years ago when a group of Jewish and Arab parents came together to build what has become the country’s largest integrated, bilingual school (and only high school). Hand in Hand has become an institution in Jerusalem, the known address for integrated education and community life.
Jerusalem is often a flashpoint in the Arab-Israeli conflict, and staff invites students to share their experiences and feelings in an environment of mutual respect. Hand in Hand students graduate with over a decade of practice in shared society living, entering the world with exceptional listening and dialogue skills alongside high-level proficiency in both written and spoken Hebrew and Arabic.
The Max Rayne Hand in Hand School in Jerusalem and its families support an active community garden, a leading studio art department, sports teams for students and parents, Arabic language classes for Jewish teachers and parents, dialogue and cultural exchange seminars, and many more recreational and enriching programs. The school and its leadership are repeatedly singled out for recognition, including winning the prestigious 2017 District Education Prize.
Guy Aloni, High School History Teacher.
“I’ve been lucky — my educational colleagues, Jewish and Arab teachers, are the bravest partners possible with whom to manage this sensitive, painful and crucial process. Together we are trying to recognize each other’s pain without taking ownership of it. Only from this place can we cultivate a new hope.”
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IN 2016-17695 students from pre-K through 12th grade
IN 2017-18684 students from pre-K through 12th grade
* The Max Rayne Hand in Hand Jerusalem preschool through high school is a fully recognized and accredited public school.
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The Hand in Hand Wadi Ara school, also called the ‘Bridge Over the Valley School’, is notable for being our only current campus situated in an Arab village, called Kafr Qara. Though it’s nearly unheard of for Jewish students to attend school in an Arab locale, the Kafr Qara community welcomes diverse Jewish and Arab families into the village both during the school year and for summer camp. This unique situation has particularly transformed the culture in the school’s Jewish feeder towns, creating a growing movement toward greater openness and commitment to promoting shared and equal society in the region.
The Wadi Ara school is also modeling a paradigm shift on the campus grounds, dedicated to a student and staff-wide commitment to environmental sustainability. The recycling, composting, and gardening projects have won the school qualification from the Ministry of Education as an official “Green School” and prizes from organizations like the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel.
One of the largest schools in the Hand in Hand network, the Wadi Ara school is creating a culture of academic excellence throughout the grades. The Wadi Ara school recently won the prominent District Education Prize in its region as well for its success in promoting achievement that is both scholastic and values-driven.
IN 2016-17277 students from pre-K through 6th grade
IN 2017-18311 students from pre-K through 6th grade
* The Hand in Hand Wadi Ara preschool and elementary school is a fully recognized and accredited public school.
Gitit Ronene, school parent
“I just want to give my children the privilege of getting to know their neighbors, their friends, their partners in this land. To really know them. I was lucky and life invited me to this Jewish-Arab encounter, and with it came a different way to educate my children.”
WADI ARA
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The Galilee School draws families from 27 villages, towns, and cities, amplifying our message throughout these communities and serving as a rare hub for shared society in the area. The Galilee is a relatively mixed region, however no other institution in the area provides the kind of day-in, day-out, bilingual interaction of Hand in Hand.
The Galilee School is our network leader in Project Based Learning, which teaches through a hands-on, student-led approach to spark curiosity and out-of-the-box thinking. Subjects are taught vertically throughout multiple classes, so that a single project is produced, for example, in both art and literature classes. The Galilee School offers small class sizes and over a dozen unique electives like permaculture in an active greenhouse, yoga, robotics, and cooking, carefully designed to provide students with multiple paths to learning. This approach empowers students to discover and achieve individual and creative successes.
The Galilee School’s pedagogical innovations are based on 4 learning pillars: Learning to Know, Learning to Do, Learning to Be, and Learning to Live Together.
Located in the pastoral mountaintop town of Eshbal, the open building plan exhibits students’ projects with the Galilee’s breathtaking mountain scenery as a backdrop. Student councils are tasked with helping plan activities and encourage the sense of ownership vital for students to take responsibility for their own learning. Hand in Hand’s Galilee School not only provides Jewish and Arab students with a fully integrated, bilingual environment, it also provides some of the most innovative pedagogical practices in the country.
IN 2016-17209 students from 1st through 6th grade
IN 2017-18248 students from 1st through 6th grade
* The Hand in Hand Galilee elementary school is a fully recognized and accredited public school.
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Principal Itai Diner and Vice Principal Rasmiya Sh’hada standing by a sign prepared by students, that reads: “Jews and Arabs say YES to peace and NO to violence”.
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Parents in Jaffa were determined to bring Hand in Hand to their city, and worked with the Tel Aviv-Jaffa Municipality for years to realize this dream. Jaffa parents are committed advocates, continually urging the municipal officials to expand integrated and equitable education in the city—both through support of Hand in Hand and throughout the entire Jaffa city school system.
Jaffa students spend abundant quality time outdoors in the school’s large community garden, fully tended by volunteer parents, which also serves as a powerful anchor bringing families together. The city itself is an extended classroom, learning math skills at the market and about biodiversity on the boardwalk. Jaffa’s socioeconomic mix is reflected in our families, adding another level of diversity to our Jewish-Arab integrated community. Jaffa is the fastest growing branch of Hand in Hand: launched in 2013 with just 35 children, today the school has almost 250 students and hundreds more on waiting lists. Thanks to the efforts of our parent community and staff, the Tel Aviv-Jaffa Municipality is supporting the rapid expansion of Hand in Hand in their city.
IN 2016-17245 students from age three through 2nd grade
IN 2017-18326 students from age three through 3rd grade
* The Hand in Hand Jaffa preschool and school are fully recognized and accredited public schools.
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An official in the Municipal Education Authority recognized the contribution that Hand in Hand is making to the city, shared:
“I take my hat off to you, you have changed Jaffa. There has never been such a massive demand for one preschool. Something real has taken place here.”
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Haifa prides itself on being Israel’s best-integrated Arab-Jewish city, and Hand in Hand is proud to operate the city’s bilingual, integrated classrooms. Hand in Hand Haifa was launched in 2012 when an active group of Jewish and Arab parents came together to establish a small, integrated daycare. Four years later, these children became Hand in Hand’s inaugural 1st grade class.
With the tireless partnership of local parents behind Hand in Hand, Haifa programs have grown dramatically—completing a full preschool and launching a Ministry of Education-accredited elementary school that grows each year toward completion in 2021.
Our network leader in bilingualism, Hand in Hand Haifa works with children as young as six months who acquire both first and second languages simultaneously. Haifa school staff are on the cutting edge of improving our bilingual education toolbox, frequently partnering with academic experts to research and assess best literacy practices. Hand in Hand is having a growing influence on Haifa. The preschool and school are intentionally located in central neighborhoods, easily accessible to Arab, Jewish, and mixed areas, serving as an integrated crossroads of Haifa’s civic fabric.
IN 2016-17114 students from six months through 1st
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IN 2017-18147 students from six months through 2nd
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* The Hand in Hand Haifa preschool is currently private, and the elementary school classes are a fully recognized and accredited public school.
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Haifa Mayor Yona Yahav talking about Hand in Hand:
“I wish the entire country were bilingual. Did you see how they (the students) speak among themselves? It is all so natural here. No person who shares a desk with someone will ever fight against that friend, ever.”
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Hand in Hand’s newest preschool opened in September 2015, bringing together families from the Jewish city of Kfar Saba and Arab cities of Tira and Taibe—an area known as the Triangle. Though there is much cooperation between these cities, Hand in Hand is the only program that brings residents of these neighboring towns together on a daily basis.
Situated on the Beit Berl College campus on the outskirts of Kfar Saba, the Hand in Hand preschool doubled in size from the first to the second year of operation. Local families are so enthusiastic about the school that we are working with municipal authorities to open a Hand in Hand elementary school there as well.
Hand in Hand is beginning to impact the local communities in the school’s feeder towns. Civic organizations like local libraries and municipalities have enacted concrete measures to support and develop bilingual practices and broader shared society efforts.
Shada Mansour, school parent and Hand in Hand community organizer
“It was so important to me to help create this preschool for one, very simple reason: when kids grow up together, they learn to live together”
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IN 2016-1737 students in pre-K and kindergarten
IN 2017-1838 students in pre-K and kindergarten
* The Hand in Hand Kfar Saba preschool is currently private.
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ALUMNI
Hand in Hand’s Alumni Program empowers graduates to translate the compendium of shared living experiences they have undergone into mature engagement in their home communities and university campuses. Alumni programming helps graduates face the challenges of living in a very polarized society and ensures that Hand in Hand remains an important part of their day-to-day lives. As ambassadors of Hand in Hand’s values, our alumni are taking steps into their post-school lives with the skills and passion to make a change in society. The alumni program is designed to give them the support
that they need to succeed in these endeavors.
Graduates take part in retreats, facilitated dialogue sessions, narrative filmmaking and social activism workshops, volunteer opportunities, trips, and holiday celebrations. These activities allow graduates to ‘come home’ to an environment that fully understands the unique education they have lived, of shared values, and utilizing the same lexicon. Each year the Alumni Program enjoys organic growth as new cohorts of school graduates join the community.
OUR GRADUATES
“It’s natural for every person to only know their side of a story - most people don’t really learn how to listen. But from a young age, I learned how to listen and how to hold a lot of different perspectives, even when it was hard. I take this with me everywhere I go. I also see this in the other alumni when I meet them in other places - we know how to listen to people who are different without it shaking our resolve. WE CAN LISTEN BECAUSE WE KNOW WHO WE ARE.” Hand in Hand Graduate Fatima Yahia
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“Despite all of the things we learned for exams, the things that I will remember for all of my life are not the equations. What I will remember is that even though we disagreed, we learned to speak to each other, we learned to listen and accept other ideas and opinions. I will remember that, for as long as I can
recall, I grew up with people who are different from me, I learned to accept them and not see them as less than, but as
equal to me.”
AYA COHEN-BAR OPENED HER CLASS’ JUNE 2017 GRADUATION CEREMONY BY SHARING:
Currently, 60% of graduates are serving in volunteer frameworks, 91% remain in regular contact with Arab or Jewish friends from the other side, and 60% are studying in higher education institutions.
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Aya Cohen-Bar, 2016-17 high
school graduate.
COMMUNITIES PRACTICING SHARED SOCIETY
Behind every Hand in Hand student is a committed family that has made the unfamiliar, and sometimes difficult, choice to send their children to school with “the other.” These courageous, committed families come together with a diverse spectrum of others to change society today.
In 2016-17, Hand in Hand’s adult community programming reached more than 1,900 unique participants through regular activities, alongside many more thousands of relatives, staff, and students who were impacted by shared living on an ongoing basis. Jewish and Arab women and men took part in:
ADULT COMMUNITIES
2016-17 COMMUNITY PROGRAM AT A GLANCE:
85 COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES COUNTRY-WIDE1,902 UNIQUE PARTICIPANTS650+ NEW PARTICIPANTS
Our success relies on fostering sincere relationships of mutual respect for one another’s identity and experience, creating bonds resilient enough to withstand the vicissitudes of the conflict outside.
Each community member becomes a Hand in Hand ambassador in their professional and social networks, leveraging our message further to tens of thousands more throughout the country.
Increasingly, Hand in Hand is the address in our host cities for shared society. In 2016-17, our communities made a concrete imprint on their hometowns, running partnerships with local institutions like local libraries to offer bilingual story hours and community centers to screen bilingual-subtitled films.
Facilitated dialogue sessionsLanguage classesShared holiday celebrationsCultural text studyCultivating community gardensCivic engagementLectures and workshopsCountrywide family gatheringCountrywide leadership seminar And more!
Fadi Suidan, Hand in Hand community member
“ THIS IS OUR WAY OF
LIFE AND WE ARE EXPANDING
IT. WHOEVER WANTS TO COME IN
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EDUCATION DEPARTMENT WRITING THE PLAYBOOK ON BILINGUAL, INTEGRATED EDUCATION
EDUCATION DEPARTMENT WRITING THE PLAYBOOK ON BILINGUAL, INTEGRATED EDUCATION
Hand in Hand teachers are on the frontlines of our educational mission. They teach students the values of empathy, respect, and equality in a bilingual and multicultural environment. Our teachers are role models and agents of change, and Hand in Hand’s Education Department helps equip them for this effort.
Writing the playbook on multicultural education in Israel, our Education Department provides Israel’s only professional, in-service teacher training program for integrated-bilingual education. In 2016-17 our expert staff worked with over 275 preschool, elementary school, and high school teachers across the Hand in Hand network and beyond.
The Education Department develops and implements programming to train and support educators teaching wide-ranging subjects in both Hebrew and Arabic, alongside literacy and language arts of both languages. Department staff works with teachers to create inclusive curricula on culture, history, and heritage; to co-manage a cross-cultural classroom environment effectively; to meet students’ diverse and evolving needs; to create a classroom of safety and mutual respect—and accomplish all this utilizing a growing toolbox of innovative pedagogical methods.
BILINGUAL EDUCATION
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HAND IN HAND STUDENTS ARE
MORE EXPLICITLY CONSCIOUS OF IDENTITY AND ETHNICITY THAN PEERS IN MAINSTREAM
SCHOOLS, YET LESS LIKELY TO ‘ESSENTIALISE’ OR STEREOTYPE MEMBERS OF OTHER ETHNIC GROUPS.
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“Professor Ned Lazarus, A future for Israeli-Palestinian Peacebuilding, Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre, 2017
DIALOGUE
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“ THE FABRIC OF HAND IN HAND REMAINS STRONG WHEN EACH INDIVIDUAL FEELS THEIR IDENTITY RESPECTED, EVEN WHEN WE DISAGREE.“Hand in Hand Parent & Teacher Aharon Gefen
DIALOGUE
Facilitated dialogue programming enables this encounter, allowing participants to speak openly about their feelings and fears. Dialogue work provides them with tools to discuss the issues of conflict both past and present, enabling and informing the work needed to build a shared present and future. Dialogue brings our community members together, diverse in identity and perspective, but alike in shared commitment to building a more just and equitable society.
WE ARE MODELING FOR A SKEPTICAL SOCIETY THAT IT IS POSSIBLE TO SEE
THINGS FROM DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES, AND AT TIMES TO STRONGLY
DISAGREE, YET STILL JOIN HANDS. THE DIALOGUE PROGRAM PROVIDES
TOOLS FOR RECKONING WITH DIVERGENT NARRATIVES, OPENLY AND
HONESTLY, AND IS INDISPENSABLE FOR CREATING A SHARED FUTURE.
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PARENTS & COMMUNITYOur professional facilitators lead dialogue sessions with more than 200 parents and community members throughout the year and in advance of the National Days (Israel’s Memorial and Independence Days, Land Day, etc.), an especially raw and sensitive time of year for many different reasons. This includes a combination of educational sessions for the entire community, and intensive and more intimate sessions for smaller groups.
TEACHING STAFFHand in Hand’s team of professional facilitators run regular sessions for more than 225 Jewish and Arab teachers. This program is vital to sustain and strengthen relationships between teachers, and equip them with the skills needed to engage in thoughtful dialogue with their students. During periods of tension, our co-teachers possess the capacity to remain exemplary models of partnership and compassion.
We welcomed thousands of visitors to Hand in Hand throughout the year. One of our most meaningful visits was from State Comptroller Yosef Shapira, who came to Hand in Hand following the publication of his groundbreaking September 2016 report that calls for revamping the education system in the model of Hand in Hand. Comptroller Shapira visited, together with Education Minister Naftali Bennett and a delegation of senior education officials, our Max Rayne Jerusalem School to learn the mechanics of Hand in Hand’s model and how it might be replicated.
Overall, during the 2016-17 school year we hosted 216 visits
and 2,489 visitors from Israel and around the world.
Thank you for visiting Hand in Hand!
SOME OF OUR PROMINENT GUESTS INCLUDED:Austrian Chancellor Christian Kern and Education Minister Sonja Hammerschmid
Premier of Quebec, Philippe Couillard
Argentinian Education Minister, Esteban Bullrich
Members of the Canadian, Irish, and Faroese Parliaments
Dutch Ambassador to Israel, Gilles Beschoor Plug
Swiss Ambassador to Israel, Jean-Daniel Ruch
UK Ambassador to Israel, David Quarrey
Sharon Johnston, wife of the Canadian Governor General
USAID officials and U.S. congressional spouses
Mayor of Haifa, Yona Yahav
Mayor of Taybe, Shua Mansour Masarwa
Hundreds of vital supporters and friends
RECOGNITION & VISITORS
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Israel’s Minister of Education, Naftali Bennett, examining Hebrew and Arabic textbooks during a visit to Hand in Hand’s school in Jerusalem, January 2017. The visit was part of a delegation of senior government and education officials, led by Israel’s State Comptroller Yosef Shapira, who came to learn about Hand in Hand’s model for shared education.
Hand in Hand receives significant media attention, within Israel and beyond, which we strategically cultivate and encourage as it enables us to greatly amplify our message of shared living to far-reaching audiences. When the public hears our stories, they are awakened to the fact that another way of life is possible; the transformation that our families undergo at Hand in Hand then becomes transformative to those who hear of it. Furthermore, as a growing public school network we require the ongoing ‘buy-in’ of the national Ministry of Education, local municipalities, and residents in our host cities, achieved in part by sharing the distinctive story of Hand in Hand’s impact far and wide.
As the voices of extremism grow louder in Israel and around the world, it is crucial to strengthen the voices of equality, justice, and peace. Our media strategy is critical to demonstrate to a largely fatigued Israeli society that not only is living together possible, it is a reality being
accomplished each and every day at Hand in Hand. The Israeli media also understands the power of telling Hand in Hand’s story, turning to us with the message that ‘we need to show our readers that there is still hope for another way.’
In 2016-17 the story of Hand in Hand has been covered in dozens of local, national, and international outlets, including television networks like Al Hurra and Mussawa (reaching hundreds of thousands of Arabic-speaking viewers), major print outlets including Maariv, Yedioth Aharonoth, Haaretz, and the Jerusalem Post, online papers including The Times of Israel, Ynet, and local news sites, as well as nationally and locally syndicated radio shows. Coverage in English, Hebrew, Arabic, Norwegian, Finnish, and more has collectively reached millions of people in Israel and beyond, including Reader’s Digest UK, TES (formerly Times Educational Supplement), and NRK Norwegian Government Broadcasting Company.
WITH GROWING COVERAGE, HAND IN HAND IS INCREASINGLY A HOUSEHOLD NAME AND THE PRIMARY ADDRESS FOR SHARED SOCIETY IN ISRAEL.
MEDIA
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10,000+ local and 8,800+ international followers on Facebook
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Hand in Hand is a growing national movement lived by a multitude of individuals who actualize it each day. Our long term vision for Israel is to build a flourishing shared society, with communities that are characterized by equality and integration. Where Arabic and Hebrew have equal presence and status in our cities, where children grow up together without fear and without stereotypes, and where families understand the cultures and traditions of the other. This vision is a viable reality for Israel.
We stand at a critical intersection, as key government officials realize the existential need to move towards the principles and practices of a shared society, and that integrated education offers a key to profound change. Hand in Hand has built an effective model of shared community-driven education and activism rooted in integrated schooling, now fostering a growing base of public support demanding to be part of this change. The simultaneous recognized need, demand, and readiness for this movement offers a critical opportunity for long-term change in society.
If Hand in Hand’s integrated community and education model scales up in size, presence, and impact, then this will cause a catalytic shift in the nature of Jewish-Arab relations, transforming shared society into a mainstream way of life.
OVER THE NEXT DECADE, HAND IN HAND’S GOAL IS TO EXPAND OUR NETWORK TO 12-15 SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES, INVOLVING MORE THAN 20,000 ARAB AND JEWISH CITIZENS, AND EXEMPLIFYING THAT ARAB-JEWISH SHARED LIVING IS BOTH VIABLE AND SCALABLE.
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* To learn more about our 5-year expansion plan, contact us at: [email protected]
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Growing Demand for Hand in Hand Schools & Communities:
13 requests from new communities to open bilingual schools
12% annual increase in students at existing schools
800+ Jewish & Arab families on waiting lists
2016-17 FINANCIALS
46%MINISTRY OF EDUCATION
PARENT FEES
PHILANTHROPY42%
12%
HAND IN HAND IS A 3-WAY
STRATEGIC FINANCIAL PARTNERSHIP
The Ministry of Education provides each Hand in Hand school with the same level of funding as every typical public school. However due to our co-teaching model with two teachers in most classrooms, additional training and dialogue programming, specialized curriculum development, and community and alumni activities, funding from the Ministry of Education only covers about 40% of our total costs. The other 60% is raised from philanthropy and tuition fees.
All figures refer to our financial fiscal year, September 2016 - August 2017
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EXPENSES
Central Office
Communities Department
Education Department
Fundraising
Galil School
Haifa Preschool & School
Jaffa Preschool & School
Jerusalem Middle & High School
Jerusalem Preschool & Elementary School
Kfar Saba Preschool
Wadi Ara Preschool & School
Total Expenses in Hand in Hand Budget
Teacher Salaries Paid Directly by the Ministry of Education (Estimate)
Combined Total
1,077,987
3,248,127
2,149,062
1,414,472
1,837,934
4,136,750
2,714,079
5,377,379
1,113,090
1,140,926
4,074,939
28,284,745
23,831,217
52,115,962
291,348
877,872
580,828
382,290
496,739
1,118,040
733,535
1,453,346
300,835
308,358
1,101,335
7,644,526
6,440,869
14,085,395
DEPARTMENT ISRAELI SHEKELS
U.S. DOLLARS
Administrative & Operations
2.1%
2.7%Fundraising
95.2%Programs
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INCOME*
United States Philanthropy
European Philanthropy
Parent Fees
1.8%
11.1%
21.6%
23.6%
Israeli Education Grants & Philanthropy
Canadian Philanthropy
Activity Income
0.1%
41.8%
* The numbers below represent income that is formally part of the Hand in Hand organizational budget. This does not include an estimated $6.44 million paid directly by the Ministry of Education towards teachers’ salaries.
United States Philanthropy
European Philanthropy
Parent Fees
Israeli Education Grants & Philanthropy
Canadian Philanthropy
Activity Income
$ 854,039
$ 1,664,757
$ 1,813,456
$ 3,212,039
$ 137,679
$ 11,247
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To our many committed friends and supporters around the world — THANK YOU. We could not do what we do every day without your dedication, caring and active engagement. Thanks to you, every week and every month that goes by, we move a few steps closer to creating a truly shared society.
We wish to acknowledge each and every one who is helping create this reality:
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THANK YOU
VISIONARIES
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Abrahamszelt e.V. and Kindermissionswerk‚ Die Sternsinger e.V
Beracha Foundation
Naomi and Nehemiah Cohen Foundation
Suzanne F. Cohen
The DEAR Foundation
Warren and Mitzi Eisenberg
Frankel Family Foundation
Feldman Foundation of Texas
Fohs Foundation
Martha and Don Freedman
Mimi and Peter Haas Fund
The Jerusalem Foundation
The Leir Charitable Foundation
Pears Foundation
The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Foundation
Pilar Crespi Robert and Stephen Robert , Source of Hope Foundation
Arthur Rock
The Schocken Foundation
Schusterman Foundation - Israel
The Edith Glick Shoolman Children’s Foundation
The Sam Spiegel Foundation
Union Square Fund
USAID
The Rayne Trust
STRATEGIC PARTNERS
JDC-Alfred and Isabel BaderPhilanthropic Fund
Paula Blumenfeld and Joe Gantz
Dan and Jill Ciporin
Edith and Bernard Ennis Foundation
Barbara and Jim Gerson
Sally Gottesman
STRATEGIC PARTNERS (Cont.)
The Audrey and Sydney Irmas Charitable Foundation
Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia
Jerusalem Foundation Canada
The Philip and Bernice Krupp Foundation for Jewish Life
Debbie Eisenberg and Gary Levene
The Lion Family
The Sabrina Merage Foundation
The Mary L. and William J. Osher Foundation
Kate and Ilya Prizel
The Social Venture Fund for Jewish-Arab Equality and Shared Society
Thomases Family Endowment of the Youngstown Area Jewish Federation
MAJOR PARTNERS
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Ametek
Debra Appel and Gene Schneyer
Eugene and Nancy Bardach
David Barish and Linda Jayaram
Eula Mae and John Baugh Foundation
Emile Bendit and Diane Abeloff
Deborah and James Breznay
The District Church
Leonard and Susan Feinstein
Sue Fischlowitz and David Roberts
SE Franklin Charitable Trust
Carrie Shapiro and Peter Frey
Goldsmith Family Foundation
Chaya and Michael Gross
Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh
Jewish Federation of St. Louis
Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee
Jusaca Trust
Carolyn Keystone and Jim Meekison
Kirsh Foundation
The Peter and Mary Levin Family Foundation
Alexander and June Maisin Foundation of the San Francisco Jewish Community Federation
Yaffa and Paul Maritz
The Milagro Foundation
Moser Family Foundation
Charles and Peggy Norris
One Region One Future
Rothman Family Foundation
Peter and Eve-Marie Schaffer, Andrew Schaffer, Rick Schaffer, Robin Schaffer
Erna Schulz Charitable Foundation
Jeff Schwartz, Mike Schwartz and Dori Herman
Susan and Harry Seigle
Simpli Home
The Alan B. Slifka Foundation
Solomon Siblings Fund
Debra and Joe Weinberg
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Kathrin Harms, courtesy of Kindermissionswerk ‚Die Sternsinger‘ (front cover) // www.kathrinharms.deCraig Stennett (P. 4-6, 9, 14-15, 18-33, 42-43, 54) // www.craigstennett.comDave Brown, courtesy of Pears Foundation (P. 2, 10, 12, 45, 58-73) // www.davebrownphoto.com
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