July 21st 2009 Seven months into 2009, it looks like the wave of tragic wife murders that plagued the Ethiopian Jewish community in Israel for the past 10 years is over. With six murders in 2006, three in 2007, one in 2008 and one so far in 2009, it seems the trend is clear. A [&hellip
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Leave a Comment (0) →July 14th 2009 SHATIL’s Back from the Edge project focuses on immigrant youth at risk but in some communities, the parents get as much benefit as the children. Marina immigrated from the Former Soviet Union four years ago with her son, Kiril, then 15. Neither knew a word of Hebrew. They settled in Lod, but [&hellip
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Leave a Comment (0) →July 14th 2009 “The Arrangements Law must become a thing of the past,” Prof. Yitzhak Galnor told a dozen Knesset members and more than 100 activists gathered at a June 30 Knesset conference organized by the SHATIL-coordinated Forum to Abolish the Arrangements Law. The gathering, “From Critical Discourse to Civic Strength”, aimed to spur a [&hellip
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Leave a Comment (0) →July 7th 2009 Yizhar Reshef, z”l This update on SHATIL’s environmental work is dedicated to the memory of Yizhar Reshef, prominent environmental activist and founding member and director of the Public Health Coalition who died June 24 at the age of 37. The Public Health Coalition was established by SHATIL and is now an independent, [&hellip
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Leave a Comment (0) →June 23rd 2009 Last week, six SHATIL-Porter Environmental Fellows presented the results of year-long projects conducted during their internships in major environmental organizations in a day that clearly showed the societal impact possible when civil society and academia join hands to promote social and environmental change. Among the projects: an agricultural community garden for Ethiopian [&hellip
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Leave a Comment (0) →June 16th 2009 The advocacy efforts of dozens of organizations, led by SHATIL/NIF, Yedid, and others, resulted in a government decision to increase by more than threefold (from NIS 30 to NIS 100 million for 2009 and an additional NIS100 million for 2010) an emergency fund for civil society organizations suffering from the financial crisis [&hellip
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Leave a Comment (0) →June 16th 2009 The first environmental film festival in the desert, an employment workshop for people with disabilities in Tel Aviv, a project to recommend policy on budgets for medical experts in the periphery, a community garden for Ethiopian immigrants and at least five new blogs – these are just a few of the practical [&hellip
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Leave a Comment (0) →June 2nd 2009 It started with a sharp-eyed SHATIL staffer from our Social and Economic Justice Project noticing a small item in a local northern newspaper; led to an intensive advocacy and media campaign involving local cancer patients and many partners; and reached a mid-way success in which the government agreed to pay the transport [&hellip
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Leave a Comment (0) →June 2nd 2009 When Shmulik Merzel lived in Petah Tikva, he passed by a piece of racist graffiti while walking his dog near a public school every day. “Death to the Arabs”, painted in large letters on a wall, was also the message school children saw twice a day on their way to and from [&hellip
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