November 17th 2009 The global economic crisis may no longer grab newspaper headlines to the same extent, but its impact is still strongly felt in Israel’s civil society. Stepping up to fulfill its role, SHATIL is in the midst of a large-scale initiative aimed at enabling the country’s social change organizations to cope and surpass [&hellip
Continue Reading →Posted in: General
Leave a Comment (0) →
November 5th 2009 At the behest of the Shatil-led Yachdav (Together): the Ethiopian Women’s Coalition to Address Domestic Violence, Ethiopian Jewish spiritual leaders (kessim) and rabbis in Israel composed a special prayer for peace in the family. The prayer can now be seen on You Tube. On the clip, the kessim are chanting the prayer [&hellip
Continue Reading →Posted in: Immigrant Communities
Leave a Comment (0) →November 5th 2009 Shatil’s efforts to stop the building of a major coal power station in Ashkelon are heating up. New groups, including academics and southern mayors are joining the campaign to prevent government approval of a potentially major polluter that would endanger both health and the environment. After intense advocacy efforts with mayors of [&hellip
Continue Reading →Posted in: Environmental Justice
Leave a Comment (0) →October 20th 2009 Findings from a new report released last week by the SHATIL-founded Coalition for Public Health point to a direct link between air pollution and increased morbidity in children. In the comprehensive report, Seeing the Future: What do we Know about Air Pollution and Morbidity in Children? the researchers found up to 10 [&hellip
Continue Reading →Posted in: Environmental Justice
Leave a Comment (0) →October 20th 2009 On Monday, SHATIL, along with 18 fellows and more than a dozen social change organizations, celebrated the end of a major two year pilot to train a cadre of economists and other professionals who will promote a more socially sensitive government policy. The carefully chosen fellows, all senior staff in government offices [&hellip
Continue Reading →Posted in: Capacity Building
Leave a Comment (0) →
October 13th 2009 Sara Gavri is a 24-year old social work student who recently began participating in SHATIL’s Ethiopian Youth-at-Risk Forum in Haifa. “I didn’t really have the time,” says Sara, “but when I heard that the group was leading a campaign to ease the lives of a group of Ethiopian families whose rights were [&hellip
Continue Reading →Posted in: Immigrant Communities
Leave a Comment (0) →
September 29th 2009 “This population is in dire need of personal attention. And that’s what this project gives them.” – Lina Sharon, principal, HaOren High School, Yavneh “OK, do it again from the beginning. Now get the square root….So if this is 20, this is…? “Ten?” “Good. Try another one.” Math tutor Racheli Haluya, is [&hellip
Continue Reading →Posted in: Immigrant Communities
Leave a Comment (0) →September 22nd 2009 SHATIL’s Avi Dabush takes advantage of the New Year Tav-Shin-Ayin (תש”ע – 5770) which spells out the word “nine” in Hebrew ((תשע to urge Israel’s leaders to take on nine critical tasks to save the environment: The following is excerpted from his Ynet article (See the full piece in Hebrew at http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3778724,00.html. [&hellip
Continue Reading →Posted in: Environmental Justice
Leave a Comment (0) →September 22nd 2009 The Israeli government last week pledged to Israel’s Supreme Court to allocate NIS 70 million ($18.7 million) for paving and improving the infrastructure of roads leading to schools in eight recognized and five unrecognized Bedouin villages in the Negev. The government decision was made after extensive lobbying and repeated petitions to Israel’s [&hellip
Continue Reading →Posted in: General, Shared Society
Leave a Comment (0) →
September 8th 2009 In the following story, SHATIL gives you a bird’s eye view of our Back from the Edge project to assist immigrant youth at risk in one Be’er Sheva school in the last academic year: The Life Skills lesson for the day: “Sexual Relations at What Price?” The class: a 10th grade “Challenge” [&hellip
Continue Reading →Posted in: General, Immigrant Communities
Leave a Comment (0) →