Galilee Foundation for Value Education

National Network
Israel
Address

Moshav Shorashim
D. N. Misgav 20164
Israel

Telephone
+972-4-9902431
E-Mail
hmakom@netvision.net.il
Website
http://www.makom-bagalil.org.il
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Year of Establishment
1991
General Information
We are a registered non-profit foundation in Israel, governed by a board of 7 community leaders living the Galilee, and employing a staff of about 10 full and part time educators and one administrator. We have about 20 volunteers active in our various projects. Our annual budget is about $350,000, of which a third comes from program fees, and two thirds from foundations, communities, and individuals. All of our work is through concrete projects: We operate cultural programming for our region - lectures, festivals, film series, courses, etc. In addition we operate an encounter program for Jewish and Arab youth, a Jewish-Arab youth circus, and a Hebrew/Arabic internet newspaper. In Jewish cultural programming we work with the Jewish Agency, the ORT network, and the Hebrew University. In Jewish Arab programming we work independently.
Mission and Objectives

Mission: To bring about social change toward the goal of an open, just, and humane society in Israel - by means of direct educational encounter of the learner with persons, places, and texts - working with the entire spectrum of Israeli society.

Fostering of mutual understanding and cooperation between different ideological and religious streams in Judaism

Fostering of mutual understanding and cooperation between Jews and Arabs in the Galilee

Deepening and strengthening the links between Israel and the Diaspora

Education for the application of humane, Jewish values in Israeli society

Deepening the connection to the Jewish heritage in the Galilee

Main Projects / Activities

Arab-Jewish youth circus

Hebrew/Arabic internet newspaper

Youth leadership training program in Arab communities

Jewish-Arab youth encounter seminars

Pluralistic Jewish culture center: films, lectures, courses, festivals, holiday events

Curriculum development and teacher training projects

Value-education tourism programs in Galilee sites

Head of the organisation
Dr. Marc J. Rosenstein

Elisabeth Guigou

Elisabeth Guigou is President of the Anna Lindh Foundation, appointed in 2015 by the 42 Foreign Ministries and Euro-Mediterranean Member States of the Foundation (Middle East, North Africa, the Balkans and Europe) since 2015. As former Minister of European Affairs of France, Member of the European Parliament, and Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the French National Assembly, she has extenstive high-level experience of the EU, international cooperation and Euro-Mediterranean cooperation.

Nabil Al-Sharif

Dr. Nabil Al-Sharif is Executive Director of the Anna Lindh Foundation, the central institution and movement for intercultural dialogue across the Mediterranean. Former Senator, Ambassador and Minister for the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, Nabil Al-Sharif has extensive experience in public service and international cooperation. In the domain of media and communication, he held the post of Minister of Media Affairs, was Editor-in-Chief of Ad-Dustour Arabic daily newspaper, and is former Chair of the Jordanian Media Institute (JMI).

United Kingdom

What is the Anna Lindh Foundation?
The ALF is an official body belonging to the 42 member states of the Union for the Mediterranean, tasked with promoting intercultural dialogue through civil society partnerships across the region, to bring people together, build trust and improve mutual understanding.

Why join?

Tunisia

We Love Sousse has been elected HoN for the Tunisian network since December 2011.

We Love Sousse aims to improve the living environment in the city of Sousse through outreach projects, volunteer activities of social media, street entertainment microphones sidewalks, shows, street painting, cultural projects.

We believe in a project of civil society radiant, brimming with initiative and a willingness to move forward and improve the living environment in the city.

Sweden

The National Museums of World Culture (Världskulturmuseerna) is the coordinator of the Anna Lindh Foundation network in Sweden.

The Museum of World Cultures (Världskulturmuseet) in Gothenburg is in charge of the coordination mission since its opening. 

Spain

The European Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMed), which has been appointed HoN by Ministry of Foreign Affairs since ALF inception, was founded in 1989, is a consortium comprising the Catalan Government, the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation and Barcelona City Council.

It incorporates civil society through its Board of Trustees and its Advisory Council formed by Mediterranean universities, companies, organisations and personalities of renowned prestige.

Slovenia

Zavod Povod was elected by members in 2011 to be Head of Network in Slovenia and re-elected in 2015.

Povod is an institution, NGO, working on the international development and a global education field with a particular focus on art, culture, cultural management, mobility and youth, as well development of civil society sector in general and advocating civil society toward public and authorities.

Slovak Republic

The National Trust of Slovakia was appointed by Ministry of Foreign Affairs, then re-elected by members in June 2013 as the Head of the ALF Slovak Network.

The mission of the NGO National Trust of Slovakia is to secure the permanent protection of national heritage sites, valuable historical objects and sites of natural beauty and their preservation for the benefit of Slovakia and its people.

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