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The Israel Experience:

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Givat Haviva Seminar - Overseas Programming Department

  • Purpose:

    Further understanding of Jewish - Arab coexistence in Israel by meeting Israeli Arab citizens and getting to know them.

  • Process:

    One day program including introduction to Givat Haviva through video and discussion; workshop actively involving participants in discovering who the Israeli Arabs are; lunch; small discussion groups with coexistence activists; field trip - visit in an Arab village and home hospitality; supper and cultural sharing with Israeli Arab hosts.

  • Implementors:

    Alyne Bat Haim - cross cultural advisor and psychotherapist, graduate of Smith College, Yale University and California Family Study Center; Riad Kabha - educational coordinator, mukhtar of the arab village of Barta'a, graduate of University of Tel Aviv.

  • Project coordinator:

    Givat Haviva's Overseas Programming Department has been hosting groups since the early seventies. Alyne Bat Haim, a specialist in cross cultural communication, has been working in the area of coexistence since 1984. She leads workshops and groups throughout Israel and works with an international clientele in her private psychotherapy practice.

  • Target group: High school students, university students, adults.

  • No. of Participants: 15-60.

  • Duration of activity: Minimum - 4 hours; Maximum - 1 week.

  • Location of activity: Givat Haviva and neighboring Israeli Arab villages.

  • Aids and materials: Relevant reading material and maps.

  • Special requirements: Openness to and interest in learning about Israel's largest non-Jewish minority.


    For information and orders:

    In Israel

    Givat Haviva
    Menashe 37850
    Tel: 06-309284
    Fax: 06-373335
    Contact Person: Mr. David Koren

    In the USA

    Givat Haviva Educational Foundation M.P.
    224 West 35 Str. Ste 403 N.Y. 10001
    Tel: 212-868-0353
    Contact Person: Mr. Steve Goldberg

    See: Meetings

    Last updated: May 5, 1996
    Esther Carciente: esthers@jajz-ed.org.il
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