Israel $2,949,000
New Israel Fund (NIF): $2,774,000
General Support: $150,000
- For general support of NIF, which seeks to strengthen Israel’s
democracy, safeguard civil and human rights, foster tolerance and
religious pluralism, and promote social and economic justice.
SHATIL – The New Israel Fund’s Capacity
Building Center for Social Change Organizations: $495,000
- For overall support of SHATIL, which provides technical assistance,
courses and consultation in order to increase the effectiveness of social
change non-profits, empower vulnerable communities, and mobilize coalitions
for positive change.
- For leadership training and technical assistance to empower the Ethiopian
community.
- For consulting work with Ethiopian organizations and community groups
to improve their educational opportunities.
- For consulting and training of CIS immigrant organizations, with a
focus on promoting democracy, pluralism and social integration into
Israeli society.
- For guidance and consultation to Arab Israeli grassroots organizations,
community leaders, parents and local government officials to eliminate
inequality between Arab and Jewish citizens of Israel.
- To coordinate a regional effort to ensure the implementation of free
quality educational services for Bedouin preschool children in the Negev.
- For the Low-Income Neighborhoods Project, designed to tackle the many
problems facing residents in low-income neighborhoods, and to assist
organizations and groups working with disadvantaged citizens.
Special Project Grant: $200,000
To support and strengthen Israeli Palestinian organizations following
the crisis that erupted in September 2000.
NIF Special Grants Pool for Ethiopian Educational Initiatives:
$12,500
To promote new initiatives and coalitions that facilitate improved educational
achievements by Ethiopian immigrant children and youth.
NIF Outreach on Democratization Within the Russian Immigrant
Community: $133,000
To support organizations funded by the NIF Democracy pool - - MADA, Te’ena,
New Era, Quality of Life, Dialogue for Harmony Between Cultures; Friendship
and Cooperation; and Tashbetz - - to promote values of democracy, tolerance
and pluralism among immigrants from the CIS.
NIF Small Grants Pool to Address the Status of Arab Women and
Improve Educational Opportunities for the Bedouin: $25,000
To enhance the status of women, increase educational opportunities, and
improve the quality of life in four communities: Rahat, Nazareth, El-Atarash,
and El Hawashle.
Donor-Advised Recommendations: $1,758,500
Moriah made recommendations concerning the following funds; however,
in some instances the New Israel Fund made different allocations. The
list that follows reflects the grants actually made by the New Israel
Fund as of the printing of this report.
Improvement of Educational Opportunities for Ethiopians
ALMAYA – Association for the Advancement of the Ethiopian
Family and Child in Israel: $75,000
To foster the integration of Ethiopian immigrants in Israeli society by
empowering community members, training them as paraprofessionals, disseminating
information and developing model programs.
Fidel – Association for Education & Social Integration
for Ethiopian Jews: $150,000
To train and employ Ethiopian educational mediators who address the cultural
gaps and misunderstandings that exist between the school system and students
and parents.
Grants to Grassroots Ethiopian Organizations: $18,000
For three grassroots projects - the Ethiopian Students’ Union, the
Organization for the Immigration of Quara Jews, and the Ethiopian Center
for Legal and Community Advocacy.
HILA – Israel Committee in Education in Neighborhoods and
Development Towns: $15,000
To empower Ethiopian parents in their struggle to secure quality education
for their children and to provide individual assistance to parents trying
to prevent their children’s inappropriate placement in a special
education framework.
Israel Association for Ethiopian Jews (IAEJ): $100,000
To provide the data, information and policy analysis required to formulate
strategies to improve education services for Ethiopian children and to
advocate for needed changes.
SHAHAR: Movement for Equal Rights & Civil Liberties:
$10,000
To combat the phenomenon of “dropping out” among Ethiopian
youth by cultivating their leadership skills, political awareness, and
academic self-confidence.
South Wing to Zion: Association for Ingathering and Absorption
of Ethiopian Jewry: $62,500
To bring the remaining Falasmura and Quara Jews to Israel and to ease
the immigrants’ integration into Israeli society.
Absorption of Immigrants from the Commonwealth of Independent
States (CIS)
Association for the Protection of Mixed Family Rights:
$5,000
To protect the rights of families whose members are not recognized by
the State of Israel as Jewish and to advance their integration into Israeli
society.
Bayit Rishon B’Moledet – First Home in the Homeland:
$30,000
For an acculturation program for immigrants from the Commonwealth of Independent
States (CIS), designed to deepen their understanding of and identification
with Israeli society, and cultivate a network of immigrant leaders.
IMHA – Association of Single Parent Families from the Commonwealth
of Independent States: $20,000
To assist new immigrant single-parent families and press for changes in
the policies that negatively affect them, particularly concerning housing,
social benefits, and employment.
Immigrants for Successful Absorption: $10,000
To help immigrants cope with issues such as neglected children, youth
in distress, and lack of affordable housing.
Israel Religious Action Center – Legal Aid to Immigrants:
$30,000
For work with CIS immigrants, including a) public campaigns to work for
State recognition of non-Orthodox conversions, "mixed" marriages,
and other immigrants' rights issues and b) the operation of five legal
aid centers for immigrants to help them navigate national and local government
agencies and assist with matters such as purchasing apartments.
Modus School and Educational Center: $30,000
To develop and implement a new approach in education based on principles
of democracy and responsibility; also to support a fundraising position
and a teachers’ training course.
New Era: $20,000
To promote democratization among the CIS immigrant community, primarily
through seminars for social activists, public figures, journalists, and
lawyers.
One Plus One: Association of Immigrant Youth: $20,000
For two programs designed to assist in the integration of CIS immigrants:
a facilitators’ training course for young adult immigrants; and
the development of a network of youth leadership centers for immigrant
youth.
Quality of Life for Each and Everyone: $25,000
To expose CIS immigrants to elements of democracy and civil society through
the publication of a progressive newspaper in Russian and through community
organizing activities.
Shiluv – Integration: $30,000
To assist immigrants in their integration through professional, social,
and cultural programs, and to provide technical and practical assistance
to nascent immigrant NGOs.
The Institute for Democracy & Leadership Training of Soviet
Immigrants in Israel - MADA: $20,000
To foster democratic values by training young immigrant leadership and
exposing the CIS immigrant community to the values of democracy, individual
rights, and freedom of expression.
Equal Rights and Opportunities for Arab Israelis
Adalah - Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel:
$50,000
To promote equal rights and minority rights protections for Arab citizens
of Israel concerning land and housing, education, employment, language,
culture, political participation, women’s rights, prisoners’
rights, and religious rights by providing legal consultation and representation,
educational activities, and training for human rights lawyers.
Adam Institute for Democracy and Peace: $30,000
To conduct a democratization program in Arab schools, including in-service
training for teachers, classroom work with students and implementation
of a democratic way of life in the school.
Al-Ahali Association: $20,000
For a pilot program of educational activities that promote civic participation
among Arabs by training community leaders and organizing farmers.
Albadel - Coalition Against Family Honor Killing: $20,000
To support a coalition of organizations pursuing public education and
advocacy efforts against the murder of women who “violate family
honor” in the Arab community.
Alwaha Ba Negev – A Society for Social & Educational
Services: $25,000
For enrichment activities for toddlers and their mothers in the Bedouin
village of Kseiffe and to develop programs for at-risk Bedouin children.
Arab Center for Planning: $30,000
To support advocacy efforts for the fair allocation of land resources
to the Arab population in Israel and for the full representation of Arabs
in planning institutions.
Assiwar – Arab Feminist Movement in Support of Victims
of Sexual Abuse: $30,000
To establish the first rape crisis center for Palestinian Israeli women.
Association of Forty for Recognition of Arab Villages:
$20,000
To encourage the official recognition and government support of unrecognized
villages in the Galilee.
Center for Jewish-Arab Economic Development: $35,000
To plan and develop activities for unrecognized villages in the Negev.
Committee for Educational Guidance for Arab Students: $25,000
To promote greater educational equality and address the specific needs
of Arab students by advocating against discriminatory policies and practices,
promoting higher education among Arab youth, and supporting services for
Arab university students.
Community Advocacy: $45,000
For its Bedouin Outreach Project, which helps Bedouin communities in the
Negev advocate for individual social rights and changes in policies that
discriminate or exclude Bedouin from determination of issues affecting
them.
E’elam – Media Center for Palestinians in Israel:
$20,000
To support its struggles against discrimination, promote the equality
of the Palestinian public in Israel, and ensure the right of the Arab
public to proper coverage and integration in media activities.
Follow-Up Committee on Arab Education: $30,000
To improve education for Arab citizens of Israel and seek equal educational
resources and opportunities.
Hura Community Center: $25,000
To conduct a television production course for young Bedouins in which
participants produce a magazine program for community television in the
northern Negev.
Israel Family Planning Association (IFPA): $40,000
To train Arab professionals on issues related to reproductive health and
sexual behavior and provide IFPA services to Arab citizens.
Kayyan: Feminist Organization for Women in Arab Society:
$20,000
To advance the status of Arab women and promote their leadership on a
wide range of public issues.
Linda Feldman Rape Crisis Center in Jerusalem: Arabic Hotline:
$8,000
To provide aid and services to Arab survivors of rape and sexual assault
in the Jerusalem metropolitan area and reshape societal attitudes towards
sexual violence in Israel.
Masar – Institution for Ontosophical Education: $15,000
For its Nazareth Center for Education, an alternative school for Arab
Israeli school children.
Negev Educational Association (NEA): $65,000
To support NEA, which provides professional leadership for the Negev Early
Childhood Education Network, a regional network dedicated to improving
early childhood education services for Bedouin in the Negev, and increases
advocacy efforts for accessing government funds for Negev preschools.
Personal Status Coalition - The Working Group for Equality in
Personal Status Issues: $15,000
To support public education and advocacy to improve the legal status of
Moslem and Christian Arab women in Israel with regard to issues of marriage
and divorce.
Sidreh: $40,000
For the Negev Weaving Project, which employs Bedouin women in traditional
weaving and tourism projects.
Social Development Committee – Haifa: $15,000
To improve conditions and services in Haifa’s Arab sector by advancing
the self-image of the Arab neighborhoods’ residents, and raising
awareness of their rights; and to foster coexistence between Arab and
Jewish citizens by promoting service provision, advancing leadership among
women and youth, and advocating on behalf of the Arab population vis-à-vis
the Municipality.
The Association to Promote the Education of Bedouin Women: $30,000
For basic office equipment and for a pre-university course to prepare
talented female Bedouin high school students for higher education programs.
The Trust of Programs for Early Childhood, Family and Community
Education: $35,000
To support training activities for preschool personnel in Ramallah and
East Jerusalem that focus on strengthening educational opportunities for
children.
Women Against Violence - Nazareth: $30,000
To eliminate physical, sexual, and psychological violence against women
and girls in the Arab community.
Civil Rights/Building Civil Society
Adva Center: $20,000
To provide information and analysis of data to policymakers and advocates
on inequalities in Israeli society and to promote equality across ethnic
and gender lines.
Association for Civil Rights in Israel: $150,000
To protect and promote civil liberties and human rights for all Israelis
and residents of the occupied territories.
Association for Community Development – Acre: $20,000
To maximize access for disadvantaged residents of Acre to existing social
entitlements in the areas of housing, health, education, and welfare,
and to enforce and expand social rights and entitlements through empowerment
of residents via community outreach and advocacy.
B’Tselem – Israeli Information Center for Human Rights
in the Occupied Territories: $15,000
To conduct human rights monitoring in the occupied territories and to
report on abuses.
Friends of Kedma School: $30,000
To improve the educational level of young people from disadvantaged neighborhoods
and development towns; to empower communities in these areas by improving
their educational achievements; and to develop the Kedma School in Jerusalem
as an educational and social model for implementation in other disadvantaged
areas of Israel.
Israel Women’s Network: $40,000
To improve the status of women, attain equality of the sexes, and create
a more just and equal society via legislation, litigation, education and
consciousness-raising.
Workers’ Hotline - Kav L’Oved: $20,000
To ensure equal rights for Palestinian and foreign workers in Israel by
providing legal and practical assistance to those whose rights have been
violated in the course of employment, and to devote increased efforts
to the problems of female workers.
Yedid - The Association for Community Empowerment: $30,000
To assist communities on the geographic and cultural periphery of Israeli
society through Citizens Rights Centers, which provide information on
rights and entitlements, develop local leadership and activism through
community programs, implement democracy education at the community level,
and advocate for policy change at the local and national levels.
Peace and Co-Existence
Jewish-Arab Community Association - Wolfson Neighborhood:
$15,000
To strengthen community organizing efforts and revitalize the volunteer
base of this community-based organization of Jewish and Arab residents
in Acre.
Netivot Shalom – Oz ve Shalom: $30,000
For this organization, which produces a religious peace movement newsletter
that offers a pro-peace interpretation of the weekly Torah portion, and
translates the newsletter into English.
Other Grants for Israel
American Friends of Orr Shalom: $25,000
For Orr Shalom’s Children’s Homes, a project of American Friends,
which seeks to establish two community homes for Arab children, one in
the Negev and the other in Abu Gosh. (This is the first installment of
a two-year $50,000 grant.)
American Jewish World Service: $25,000
Recommended for* The Palestine Human Rights Monitoring Group, which seeks
to document human rights abuses committed by the Palestinian Authority
and the Israeli government and army in the West Bank, Gaza-Strip, and
East Jerusalem and to publicize the violations in order to end the abuses,
promote the rule of law, and protect human rights.
Givat Haviva Educational Fund: $20,000
To conduct a Family Life Education course, for Arab social workers and
nurses, which introduces participants to the subjects of human sexuality,
health and the status of women.
Grassroots International: $35,000
For its Palestinian Democratic Development Program, which provides technical
assistance and funds to NGOs operating in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
North American Conference on Ethiopian Jewry: $50,000
For the operation and promotion of educational and cultural programs designed
to help Ethiopian Jewry successfully integrate into Israeli society.
The Leo Baeck Education Center Foundation: $20,000
Recommended for the Leo Baeck Education Center, which runs two educational
programs for new immigrants from Quara, Ethiopia: a program that provides
intensive educational assistance for students before they study in standard
classrooms; and a four-year course to prepare particularly talented students
for the matriculation examination.
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