September 3rd 2009 The start of the school year in Israel is never simple: This year, kindergarten and special education administrative staff are on strike in some municipalities, only a last minute compromise enabled Ethiopian children in Petah Tikva to start first grade and on the first day of school, pupils attacked a teacher in [&hellip
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Leave a Comment (0) →August 25th 2009 When a journalist is looking for an authoritative source on women, Jewish pluralism, social and economic justice, the environment, immigrant absorption or Arab society in Israel – she can now find them at her fingertips. SHATIL’s Center for Policy Change (CPC) this week published a 130-page booklet, Meet the Expert: a Booklet [&hellip
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August 18th, 2009 One of the pleasures of observing SHATIL’s work is seeing the ripple effects of SHATIL initiatives. On a recent hot and sticky evening, more than 100 Ethiopian-Israeli parents (many of them men) packed a hall of the Clore Community Center in Hadera, located in the Pe’er neighborhood, which houses the city’s highest [&hellip
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August 18th 2009 “Part of the weakness of the Galilee is that the authorities who try to help are politicized. To our luck, this time SHATIL is the organizer and it is perceived as an organization that has the trust of all the players.” – Yona Fartouk, Histadrut Labor Federation delegate for the Galilee The [&hellip
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August 4th 2009 The Shatil-coordinated Forum to Abolish the Economic Arrangements Law managed to get many harmful clauses out of the law before it was passed last month. According to experts, 42 out of 90 clauses were removed from the undemocratic law. This is especially impressive since this law is attached to the national budget [&hellip
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August 4th 2009 “Why did this Coalition form? It was formed to fight the biggest privatization in the history of the state of Israel was created – the privatization of Zionism. This reform threatens all that is dear to us.” – MK Shelly Yachimovich Despite energetic efforts by a broad based Shatil-coordinated coalition of social [&hellip
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Leave a Comment (0) →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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