‫הסוכנות היהודית לארץ ישראל‬

The Jewish Agency for Israel

 Israeli Steering Committee recommendation for 2007 Budget

Project Name: STATUS: Budget for 2007:

Regional Development Sphere:
Beer-Sheva:
Community Building Continuing 30,000
Summer Activities for Welfare kids Continuing 30,000
Advancement of Employment New 24,000
Excellence in Education (Karev) Continuing 20,000
Total Beer-Sheva 104,000
Bnei-Shimon:
Community Building Continuing 25,000
Youth at Risk Continuing 15,000
Employment Project New 14,000
Community Mediation New 9,000
Total Bnei-Shimon 63,000
Beer-Sheva and Bnei-Shimon
Excellence in Education Continuing 70,000
Community Projects (NGO) Continuing 33,000
Total Bnei-Shimon and Beer-Sheva 103,000
Total of Regional Development Sphere 261,000
Total of People to People (P2P) Sphere 395,000
Total P2K Budget 656,000

Remarks:

 The P2K Teum Forum approved the 2007 budget for the continuing projects in a
conference call on December 19 2006.
 The P2K Teum Forum approved the 2007 budget for the P2P project in a conference call
on December 19 2006.
 The Joint Steering Committee still needs to discuss how to allocate $ 80,000 left,
following the above P2K Teum Forum's decisions on December 19 2006.
 Bnei-Shimon decided to withdraw their "Community Mediation" Project Card.
 Budget items to be discussed in the January 22 budget session:
Two new Employment Project Cards
Community Projects (NGO)
Budget for Magshimim

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COMMUNITY BUILDING (WARM HOMES) PROJECT

OPERATING BODY: Mahar Association

RESPONSIBLE AGENCY: Beer-Sheva Municipal Social Services Department

STATUS: Continuing

BUDGET REQUESTED: $30,000

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
The project aims at developing a social-geographic network in local neighborhoods by setting up
support groups in private homes, seeking to form a supportive social network whose members are
involved in a cohesive and reinforced community, thereby leading to the emergence of local
leadership that will promote and represent the interests of the respective groups.

NEEDS TO WHICH THE PROJECT RESPONDS:

Reinforcing the local social fabric and providing tools for strengthening social integration, and
improving the everyday functioning of young families in areas like: Education, Parenting, Aliyah,
Integration into the community and Communal enhancement. In the year 2005, nine homes were
opened in Beer-Sheva, which serve as a social support system.

COMPATIBILITY WITH PARTNERSHIP 2000 OBJECTIVES

 Reinforcing the local community/social structure.

 Integrating immigrants in society as a whole.

 Empowering local residents for personal and social activity.

TARGET POPULATION :

 Immigrant and veteran Israeli families from all Beer-Sheva neighborhoods.

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 BUDGET (In NIS)
Partnership
Activity Description Formula Total
2000 Budget
Continued provision of professional
tools for hosts to enable group
Ongoing self-help leadership, formulation of common 8 sessions x NIS
group workshops for objectives and representation of 550 (2.5 hours 4,400 4,000
hosts and staff interests. Each 2½-hour session each session)
includes a lecture, guidance or
activity and refreshments.
5 groups * 14
Workshops for five To op[en five new homes and
sessions * 2 hours 12,040 11,000
new groups hosts parents guidance
per session * 172
Preliminary workshop 10 sessions *
Enhancement and strengthening of
for volunteers at new 2hours per session 5,500 5,000
the leaders of the new groups
homes * 550
Ongoing operating expenses:
12 homes * 230
Routine maintenance Refreshments, equipment and 33,120 33,120
*12 months
activities.
Miscellaneous and
3,260 3,000
office expenses
Project Coordinator- Social Worker
Personnel 42,000 42,000
3500 * 40 % position * 12 months

Coordinator 2000 * 40% position * 12 months 24,000 24,000

Overhead 5,435 5,435

Total 131,935 129,935
Total in Dollars $ 30,000

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 SUMMER ACTIVITIES FOR WELFARE CHILDREN PROJECT

OPERATING BODY: Beer-Sheva Municipal Social Services Department

RESPONSIBLE AGENCY: Beer-Sheva Municipal Social Services Department

STATUS: Continuing

BUDGET REQUESTED: $30,000

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
Children under Social Services Department care and those in distress do not attend summer
camps, primarily because their families are in dire financial straits. Camps are a significant
preventive factor that helps keep children from loitering and provides appropriate and positive
response to their needs. Moreover, camps supply beneficial experiences for children from
immigrant and/or needy families. Over the past few years, such children have been placed in
regular municipal camps rather than separate ones, according them a sense of normalcy and a
positive self-image and eliminating stigmas.

NEEDS TO WHICH THE PROJECT RESPONDS:

 Children need activity and supervision during summer vacation.
 Preventing loitering and delinquency.

 Improving children’s self-image.

 Improving children’s quality of life.

 Enabling parents, especially single parents, to work normally during summer vacation.

COMPATIBILITY WITH PARTNERSHIP 2000 OBJECTIVES

Helping and empowering special population groups – youth at-risk.

TARGET POPULATION:
Youth at risk ages 6-13 citizens of Beer-Sheva

PARTNERS:
Ministry of Welfare, Ministry of Educations, Beer-Sheva Educations departments, Beer-Sheva
Social Services Department, JDC, Pact, Sacta-Rashi, Kivunim leisure and cultural Company, and
parents participation.

BUDGET: $ 30,000
$ 100 subsidy for one participant * 300 participants= $ 30,000

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 ADVANCMENT OF EMPLOYMENT PROJECT

OPERATING BODY: Beer-Sheva Municipal Social Services Department

RESPONSIBLE AGENCY: Beer-Sheva Municipal Social Services Department

STATUS: NEW

BUDGET REQUESTED: $ 24,000

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
In the last few years, the project functioned in two levels:
1. "Marvelous Women" project for single mothers.
2. Program for immigrants from the Caucasus and Ethiopia – financed by JDC-Israel.
The Employment Advancement Project helps immigrant men and women from the Former Soviet
Union – as well as veteran Israelis join the work force.
The project involving participants in a three-stage work model:
1. Recruiting and Screening Participants.
2. Group and Individual Work with the Target Population
A. Group Workshop
 Social cohesion and definition of employment objectives and goals.
 Acquisition of practical job-seeking tools.
 Participants interested in vocational training will be referred to appropriate
studies for optimal job placement.
 Empowerment enabling participants to advance from confusion and passivity to
assumption of personal responsibility for their private and professional lives.
B. Individual Work
Project participants will be supervised individually by the Project Coordinator, who will
provide personal support and reinforcement and help them achieve the goals and
objectives that they set for themselves.
3. Job Placement
The project staff will help participants find jobs and broker between participants and
potential employers.
4. Job Club
At the end of the workshop, a Job Club will be set up, offering group supervision and
support for working participants and those at various stages of realizing their employment
goals.
5. An Information Center, operated by specially-trained volunteers will be in operation
throughout the project, providing men and women with information about work-related
rights.

NEEDS TO WHICH THE PROJECT RESPONDS:

 The workshop and Information Center provide information regarding rights and
job-seeking methods.
 Group participation achieves cooperation and partnership and eases the sense of isolation and
alienation from which many unemployed persons suffer.
 Tools and skills acquired through the project intensify participants’ competence and belief in
their ability to effect a change in their lives and find a job.
 Group and individual processes help locate and address factors that impede employment and
enable participants to tap natural support forces and systems.

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 Job placement responds to the essential need for a fixed income, enabling to support
themselves and their families respectably and to advance from dependence on state agencies
and stipends to financial self-sufficiency.

COMPATIBILITY WITH PARTNERSHIP 2000 OBJECTIVES:

 The project will help develop human capital at the individual level, with implications for the
local level as well.
 The project conforms with the Government Ministry trend towards overcoming
unemployment problems, cooperating with government agencies in terms of budget
assistance and common objectives.
 Assistance to and empowerment of special population groups.
 Expanding activities by business persons on behalf of the community (Friendly Employer, etc.).

TARGET POPULATION:
The project’s target population consists of both men and women, veteran Israelis and new
immigrants from the Former Soviet Union.

BUDGET:

Partnership 2000
Activity Description Formula
Budget
Personnel Community Social Worker $ 1,666 * 50% * 12 10,000
Personnel Neighborhood Worker $ 833 * 50% * 12 5,000
Salary for Workshops
Workshops- 2,500
Leaders
2 activities for program
Social Activities
participants and their 2,500
for families
children
Marketing program in the
Marketing 1,000
community
Office expenses
2,000
and overhead
Miscellaneous 1,000
Total: $ 24,000

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 COMMUNITY-BUILDING BNEI SHIMON

OPERATING BODY: Bnei Shimon Regional Council

RESPONSIBLE OFFICIAL: Sigal Moran
BUDGET REQUESTED: $25,000

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
Development of physical infrastructures for residences, employment and transportation
constitutes a necessary but not a sufficient condition for sustaining new residents. To attract new
families (from Israel and the rest of the world) and prepare for their arrival, it is of primary
importance to reinforce urban and rural communities and provide tools for development and
empowerment of local leadership, thereby readying communities for the influx of new residents.

Believing in the importance of community procedures as a condition for continuity, the Regional
Council developed models for supervision of these processes at its component localities, each in
accordance with its needs, carried out by the relevant professionals and led by a specially-hired
expert with extensive administrative experience in this field.

COMPATIBILITY WITH PARTNERSHIP 2000 OBJECTIVES

As part of its efforts to reinforce localities and increase their population, the Regional Council is
investing extensive resources in supervising community procedures through which local residents
are provided with tools to address the challenges they face and work together to build a
community infrastructure for a revitalized community comprising veteran and new residents.

The objective of settling and strengthening the Negev is one of the most significant missions that
the State of Israel and the Jewish People face at present. The Beersheva–Bnei Shimon – Montreal
partnership’s strategic plan also defines this objective as central. Consequently, it is only natural
that a project of this type should be supported by the partnership.

COUNCIL ACTIVITIES
The Regional Council defined four spheres of community-building activity:

1. Community processes for absorption of new residents in community expansion programs.

2. Assessment and adaptation of kibbutz lifestyles.

3. Achieving consensus within the community.

4. Developing community master plans.

The first stage of all community processes consists of revising the community vision, in
cooperation with most local residents. In subsequent stages, work teams are assembled to tackle

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pending assignments by learning about the issues and formulating proposals for public discussion
and decision.

All Bnei Shimon localities are undergoing a process of change that demands reassessment of all
components of local life. In all processes that it supervises, the Regional Council strongly
emphasizes community-building, believing that suitable building of the community and adapting
it to changing realities will guarantee the future.

During 2006, community processes will take place through the project at 5-6 Bnei Shimon
localities.

METHODS
 Joint Regional Council-locality teams will be set up to conduct these processes, each headed
by a local coordinator.

 Each team will consist of three Regional Council representatives, one local representative
and a professional consultant.

 Appointment of a coordinator and local team by the relevant localities constitutes a condition
for participating in the process.

STAGES OF PROGRESS
 The community administration and/or local secretariat will define issues and make decisions
regarding Regional Council participation.

 Appointment of coordinators and local teams.

 Convening members’ meetings to approve Regional Council involvement.

 Selecting a consultant and formulating the proposed process.

 Convening a members’ meeting to approve the process.

BUDGET ($)
Partnership 2000 Other Sources
Activity Formula Total
Budget
Director’s salary $3,555 x 12 months 42,660 25,000 17,660
Total 42,660 25,000 17,660

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 YOUTH AT RISK PROJECT

OPERATING BODY: Bnei Shimon Regional Council

RESPONSIBLE OFFICIAL: Sigal Moran
BUDGET REQUESTED: $15,000

COMPATIBILITY WITH PARTNERSHIP 2000 OBJECTIVES:

Over the past few years, kibbutzim and moshavim in the Bnei Shimon Region have undergone
far-reaching changes in lifestyle, mutual responsibility and social cohesion. These value changes
took certain responsibilities from the community responsibility and delegated them to individuals,
including greater parental responsibility for children’s education, thereby also changing the role
of the educational system in young people’s lives. Receptivity of rural areas to the surrounding
society has a positive side, but also exposes rural residents, especially youth, to problematic
patterns and norms. During the period under review, two new communities were established in
the Region – Givat Bar and Atzmona/Shomriya. Both are characterized by substantive changes in
family lifestyle and environment, engendering numerous problems among youth, such as
difficulty gaining acceptance and failure to integrate within the educational system and the
community as a whole.
Reinforcement and empowerment of the adolescent population at these localities, to be achieved
by narrowing social and scholastic gaps, developing leadership and fostering attachment to
society and the community, will exert a direct effect on the stamina of the community and the
individuals who comprise it. As such the project will contribute directly to reinforcement of the
Negev and empowerment of its residents.

OVERALL OBJECTIVE
Limiting risk situations among youth, improving their personal, social and scholastic functioning,
reinforcing ties between participating adolescents and their peers and the community and
improving relations between them and their parents.

PROJECT OBJECTIVES AND GOALS

This systemic intervention project relates to various spheres of adolescent life and aims at
effecting change in each (youngsters themselves, their families, schools and the community):
1. Individuals: Helping all participants define themselves and achieve personal functional
objectives in various spheres of contact according to their abilities and personal pace of
progress. Achievement of these objectives may improve personal security and self-worth and
minimize the risk situations observed.
2. Schools: Close cooperation between program staff and schools in developing personal
programs suiting the needs, abilities and powers of each participant, with constant attention
to their scholastic and emotional situation; improving scholastic performance and dissuading
youngsters from dropping out of school.
3. Family: Improving parenting skills – Helping parents assume appropriate responsibility,
limiting feelings of helplessness and dysfunction, enabling them to accept and control their
children while setting limits from a position of authority. Parents will participate regularly in
weekly guidance sessions, play an active role in development the school curriculum, monitor
program implementation and become full and active partners in various aspects of program
activity.

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4. Community
 Community involvement in the program – The practical program will be planned
according to a rationale developed in cooperation with the community, adapted to its
cultural norms and ensuring community involvement and responsibility at an early stage.

 Participants’ involvement in the community through integration in activities intended for

their age group.

DETAILED PROJECT ACTIVITY

1. The program counselor will meet with each participant individually to develop personal
programs based on definition of individual assignments, supervise participants as they carry out
these assignments and involve them in assessing progress and facilitate participants’ integration
in overall kibbutz youth activities. Individual program development will also consider the
involvement and supervision of additional professionals (caseworkers and social workers).
2. A personal curriculum will be drawn up for each participating youth, in cooperation with
schools, with group responses developed as common needs are identified.
3. Tutoring will be offered according to a schedule determined in cooperation with schools.
4. Parents will participate in regular professional individual and group guidance.
5. A program steering team comprising community representatives will be established.

BUDGET REQUESTED (NIS)

Item Details Total Expenditure

Salary: Tutor 12 x NIS 5,000 60,000
Salary: Youth Counselor 12 x NIS 5,500 66,000
Total NIS 126,000

SOURCES OF FINANCING ($)

Source Amount
Partnership 2000 14,000
Bnei Shimon Regional Council 8,000
Total $22,000

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 EMPLOYMENT FOR THE RURAL SECTOR

OPERATING BODY: Bnei Shimon Regional Council

RESPONSIBLE OFFICIAL: Sigal Moran

TOTAL BUDGET REQUESTED: $14,000

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

RATIONALE
Negev development includes attraction of stronger population groups from Israel and elsewhere
to move into the Region and accelerate its economy. Numerous surveys have shown clearly that
education and employment are two key factors in family decision-making concerning selection of
a place of residence.
We are now facing the formidable challenge of encouraging young people to remain in the
Region and attracting new population groups, to be accomplished by developing employment
opportunities and helping people find jobs.

BACKGROUND
It’s a known secret that job-seekers find work primarily through personal ties. Obviously, such
ties may help open doors, but without the necessary skills and abilities, they have no substantive
effect.
Over the past two decades, the rural sector has undergone economic and community crises
induced primarily by loss of livelihood and a lack of confidence in the economy. Local residents
have had to introduce radical changes in their livelihoods in terms of conception and work force
integration, but even these changes cannot guarantee that kibbutz and moshav residents will find
outside jobs successfully. Numerous barriers stand in the way, such as advanced age,
inappropriate occupational background, mobility constraints, dispersal of unemployment-
intensive areas and more.
This project seeks to create job networks among employers in the Region and develop programs
providing job-seekers with tools and skills that facilitate their integration in the work force.
The core of program activity is the “employment solidarity” conception, that aims at fostering
commitment and support among all relevant bodies in the Region, including employers, thereby
advancing local livelihoods and employment opportunities.
The project forms ties with employers in the Region and develops awareness of employment
solidarity – a vital element of job-seeking and creation. It perceives the rural community as a
resource to be tapped for the benefit of individuals and proposes a concept based on the
community–employment conception, strengthening communities and the individuals that
comprise them.
SPHERES OF ACTIVITY

1. Individuals: Setting up a computerized database for job-seekers and employers; regularly

publicizing available positions at all localities in the Region; supervising, guiding and
studying the job-seeking process; referral for professional guidance and consultation; referral
to and initiation of vocational training programs, workshops and job integration courses;
promoting enterprises and assisting entrepreneurs.

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2. Localities: Training part-time officials at each locality to serve as an initial address for job-
seekers and to link them with employers and/or agencies catering to individuals. Wherever
possible, these officials should be local residents familiar with the Region and its population
who, with appropriate training and supervision, are capable of providing professional and
reliable solutions for job-seekers.
3. Region: Developing employment solidarity among business owners in the Region and
linking with other Regions; coordinating job information for functionaries; launching local
employment projects; linking localities with one another; links with Government agencies;
setting up and supervising HR units at kibbutzim and setting up and operating field annexes
at Moshavim.
PROJECT OBJECTIVES
 Helping new residents find and adjust to jobs, facilitating their integration in the Region.
 Increasing the number of persons in the northern Negev employed outside the rural sector
and improving the economic situation of individuals and communities.
 Fostering employment solidarity among employers in the Region and informing them of
employment problems in the northern Negev.
 Improving job adaptability among individuals in the northern Negev rural sector.
 Improving community and regional capabilities for dealing with employment-related issues.
 Strengthening communities economically and reinforcing their ability to supply social
services for their residents.
 Improving family and community quality of life.
GOALS AND METHODS
1. Setting up an organizational infrastructure for administration of an integrated system of
individual, locality-specific and regionwide work, based on the special features of the
structure and residents of each community.
2. Mapping, compiling and developing a regularly updated employer/job database.
3. Providing local residents with special training for jobs in the Region that lack qualified
personnel.
4. Developing awareness and fostering job solidarity among all employers in the Region;
planning job channels in cooperation with employers; developing, preserving and handling
ties with employers; harnessing and reinforcing employer resources.
5. Increasing the number of jobs in the database; varying jobs according to job-seekers’
employment profiles.
BUDGET REQUESTED ($)
Item Details Total Expenditure
Salary: Officials $630/month x 3 officials 22,680
Total $22,680

SOURCES OF FINANCING ($)

Source Amount
Partnership 2000 14,000
Bnei Shimon Regional Council 8,680
Total $22,680

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 COMMUNITY MEDIATION
OPERATING BODY: Bnei Shimon Regional Council

RESPONSIBLE OFFICIAL: Sigal Moran

TOTAL BUDGET REQUESTED: $9,000

OBJECTIVE
Studying and teaching conflict resolution methods throughout Bnei Shimon, thereby creating a
comfortable climate for dialogue, intensifying social cohesion and community involvement and
enabling local residents to continue living together and form a strong and cohesive community.
BACKGROUND
What is Mediation? Mediation is a voluntary and confidential process based on mutual respect
and cooperation between parties. The process enables thorough attention to all aspects of a
conflict, including its human and emotional aspects. The parties have the right to terminate
mediation at any stage.

Mediation achieves dialogue, agreements and solutions between parties in all types of
negotiations, disagreements or conflicts. Resolving a conflict by agreement enables the parties to
continue living together after an appropriate solution is formulated that guards the parties’ rights
and enables continued normal relations within the community.

Mediation involves negotiating through a mediator, who helps the two parties reach an
understanding of each other’s interests and find solutions acceptable to both.

Behind the techniques of mediation is a conception calling for dialogue as the best means of
solving differences between people, with the mediator selected to be a third, neutral and unbiased
party to assist the other parties and maximize their benefit, improving relations between them.
Assistance is tendered while providing suitable opportunity for each side to present its position in
the conflict and hear the other side. The mediator also helps the parties identify their common
interests and map out a mutually acceptable solution.

The conception that favors dialogue also assumes that the earlier we begin to internalize this
conception, the better. The Bnei Shimon Community Mediation Center has taken responsibility
for introducing mediation language in various local institutions, including schools and
educational teams.

BNEI SHIMON COMMUNITY MEDIATION CENTER

The Bnei Shimon Community Mediation Center was set up in recognition and understanding of
the complex processes that localities and residents have undergone over the past decade,

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embodying changes in lifestyle, reorganization of interpersonal relations and the influx of new
population groups, that may entail numerous and intricate conflicts.

The Mediation Center faces the challenge of creating an alternative culture for coping with
conflicts and a foundation for conducting a different kind of dialogue.

The Center mediates between and assists parties by creating a framework that fosters
attentiveness and direct and relevant communication for formulation of an agreement acceptable
to both parties and responsive to their respective needs. Mediation allows for win-win rather than
win-lose results in conflict resolution. In 2007, the Center’s primary purpose will be development
of special programs to introduce and internalize mediation language and processes of dialogue
and community-building between new and veteran residents at the various localities.

Community dialogue is highly beneficial for individuals and the community itself. The parties
resolve practical and sensitive issues through dialogue, each completing the process with
maximum benefit and proceeding along a new path, thereby contributing directly to normal
community functioning throughout the Region.

It is important to note that most mediators at the Center are local residents specially trained for
this purpose. All except for the Director perform their jobs voluntarily as part of their
contribution to the community.

WORLDWIDE MEDIATION CONFERENCE IN THE NEGEV

A worldwide mediation conference takes place every two years, attended by mediators from all
around the world. The last conference, conducted in Switzerland, hosted delegations comprising 750
persons from 50 different countries on five continents and featured national, municipal, rural and
individual projects. Next year, the conference will be held in Israel, right here in the Negev, hosted
by Negev Mediation Centers in Beersheva, Bnei Shimon and Lehavim. The conference offers a
golden opportunity to introduce the Negev and link with the rest of the world. The theme will be
Mediation in a Multicultural Spectrum, presenting the Negev as an example of multiculturalism. Our
goal is to introduce the Region to mediators from all over the world, familiarizing them with the
different cultures living side by side in the Negev, thereby reinforcing the Negev’s status. Bnei
Shimon mediators are leading the team preparing for the conference.

COMMUNITY MEDIATION CENTER OBJECTIVES

 Community Development: Imparting skills for management and resolution of conflicts in the
community through mediation.
 Workshops to introduce and internalize mediation concepts and language among rank and
file residents and functionaries.
 Providing local residents with professional mediation services.

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 Publicizing and internalizing mediation language among all kindergartens and schools in the
Region.
 Partnership in planning, organizing and hosting the worldwide mediators’ conference in the Negev.
PROGRAMS PLANNED AT THE CENTER
Goals
Community Development: Developing
community conflict management and
resolution skills – internalization,
exposure and training
Publicizing and internalizing mediation
language as an everyday tool at schools
and kindergartens
Providing conflict resolution services
for communities in businesses and
elsewhere – handling conflicts from a
broad and comprehensive point of view
Continued development and
professionalization of the Center;
assisting with educational, social and
family programs
BUDGET REQUESTED ($)
Item
Salary: Center Director 12 x $900 = $10,800
Professional Consultation 50 hours * $50/hour = $2,500
Total
SOURCES OF FINANCING ($)
Source
Bnei Shimon Regional Council
Partnership 2000
Total
Missions/Activities
Marketing activity at all localities in the Region.
Introductory workshop for local community and
business functionaries, focusing on community dialogue
and multi-participant and group conflict resolution.
Regional mediation study sessions for elementary
school students throughout the Region.
Opening mediation workshops at elementary schools.
Opening mediation workshops at junior and senior high
schools (Mevo’ot Hanegev and Eshel Hanasi).
Offering a mediation course for kindergarten teachers
and developing a special mediation program for
kindergartens, in cooperation with parents.
Publicizing the Center among Regional Council
officials.
Participation in the worldwide mediation conference in
the Negev.
Developing mediation programs for localities
undergoing expansion.
Regional seminar on community mediation for the
general public exposed to mediation culture throughout
the Region and elsewhere.
Study session for mediators once every two months.
Supervising and guiding mediation procedures.
Cost Details
Part-time position
Guiding workshops and
professional training for mediators
$13,300
Amount
4,300
9,000
$13,300
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 ENCOURAGING EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION
BEERSHEVA–BNEI SHIMON

OPERATING BODY: CRB Foundation

RESPONSIBLE AGENCY: JAFI

STATUS: Continuing

BUDGET REQUESTED: $ 70,000 (+ additional $ 20,000 for Beer-Sheva)

PROJECT DESCRIPTION
This program aims at narrowing gaps in education and promoting equal opportunities in Israeli
society through enrichment and empowerment activities in the educational system.

Thanks to the assistance of the Montreal Community and Partnership 2000, the program was
expanded as of the 2004/05 school year to cover 62 kindergartens and elementary schools (Gevim
and Reut) in Beersheva and all kindergartens and two elementary schools in Bnei Shimon
(Hatzerim and Mevo’ot Hanegev).

The program constitutes significant reinforcement of educational programs, with emphasis on

language, enrichment, creativity and thinking skill development. Electives include English,
science, music, art, chess, etc.

In the 2004/05 school year, the Montreal Community allocated $265,000 for the program and
undertook to provide an equal amount annually to finance programs over the next two years.

Partnership 2000 allocated a budget surplus of $18,000 to the program in 2004 and another
$30,000 in 2005.

The Israeli coordinating committee decided to accord priority to financing this program in 2006,
recommending that most budget surpluses of programs concluding their long-term financing be
allocated to the Excellence in Education Program.
BUDGET REQUESTED: $ 70,000 for Beer-Sheva and Bnei-Shimon

$ 20,000 additional budget for Beer-Sheva schools.

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 COMMUNITY PROJECTS (NGO)

OPERATING BODY: JAFI

RESPONSIBLE OFFICIAL: Regional Manager

STATUS: Continuing

BUDGET REQUESTED: $33,000

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
As part of Partnership 2000’s strategic trend to intensify ties with leading agencies in the Region,
the partnership allocated more than $ 50,000 in the last two years to grassroots organizations that
introduce change, seeking to examine options for future partnership with these organizations.
Organizations supported by the P2K were:

 The Bnei Shimon Association for the Elderly

 Maslan (Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel)
 Beer Sova
 The Or Movement
 The Ami association- occupational therapy at Geva Kennels for Beit-Cohen residents.
 Shiluv Leadership institute of the Negev
 Yachdav NGO works with Youth in distress and with drug addicted Parents and Their Children
 The Noam NGO works with children from violent homes.

New Organizations requesting grants from the Partnership 2007 budget are:
Sheva, Almaya, Maslan and Society for Nature.
Three organizations who received funds I 2006 receipts are asking for funds for 2007:
The Yachdav and the Noam NGO's are asking additional funds for the year 2007.
A detailed list of the new and existing proposals is in the work.
The Montreal Community will examine options for expansion and intensification of ties with the
organizations and NGOs selected for this project above and beyond the nominal Partnership 2000
allocation.

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OBJECTIVES
1. Expanding the circle of involvement in Partnership 2000, focusing on innovative NGOs that
lead processes of change in the Region.

2. Encouragement and development of social initiatives in the Region.

3. Raising resources among business persons and the community alongside Partnership 2000
involvement in the relevant organizations.

4. Including NGO activity in Partnership 2000 volunteer work, delegations, business programs
and various leadership groups.

OPERATIVE GOALS
1. Assisting innovative NGOs in the Region by providing seed money with potential for
expansion.

2. Formulating a joint program for Partnership 2000 and selected NGOs that responds to the
former’s strategic goals.

METHODS:
The Partnership 2000 Joint Steering Committee will select the projects- identified by the
partnership as conducive to change and compatible with Partnership 2000 objectives.

BUDGET:
Allocation of $33,000 to four or five programs and organizations.

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 2006 Project Card: Proposal for P2P programs and Exchange of Delegations

This project card includes all the initiatives and activities planned in the People-to-People ("Gesher Chai")
sphere of Beer-Sheva-Bnei-Shimon-Montreal Partnership.
Putting all P2P programs and delegations in the same Partnership budget line- enables us to be flexible and
to respond to changing needs during the year of operation.
This proposal represents all requests that were presented to the IPAC Committee in Montreal and to the
Israeli P2P Sub-Committee and we bring it for discussion.
The P2K Joint Steering Committee will make the final decisions in a video conference in December 2007.

In American Dollars:
Name of project or Israeli P2P Details:
delegation Recommendation
Management and
personnel:
P2P Coordinator: A full time coordinator position to operate all P2P activities
30,000
Services for Steering This budget is used for all aspects of the operation of the
Committee 20,000 Partnership e.g.: Translations, Expenses for Steering Committee
meetings etc.
P2K Office Maintenance and expenses of P2P office in the teacher center
5,000 including: participating in security fees, electricity, conference
calls payments etc.
Delegation from
Montreal:
BIEC: Mifgash: $ 75 per day in the region
Machnaim: 35 participants from Montreal 10 from the region
Shorashim: 80 participants from Montreal 20 from the region
60,000
Lehava: 30 participants from Montreal 10 from the region
Dorot: 50 participants from Montreal 15 from the region
March of the Living: 250 participants for one day= $ 2,500
CSUQ: Yachad- 32 participants from Montreal 10 from the region.
Yavne: 22 participants from Montreal 8 from the region
Volunteers: It is going to be the Sixth year that Volunteers
35,000
Mission will come to the region in November for five days
program of volunteering in NGO's, sightseeing and helping the
region in times of needs. 35 volunteers * $ 500 per week
CAMPAIGN: 21,000 Covering expenses of the Federation's Campaign missions
during their visit to region.
Delegations from the
region:
CBB For many years, P2K has sent Israeli teens from the region to
serve as counselors (CIT) in CBB Camp in Montreal.
28,000
14 youngsters from Israel will work five weeks in the second
session of the Montreal Summer Camp.
Winter Camp In the last two years Israeli youngsters from the region joined
10,000 their peers from the Sephardic Community in the KIF-Kef
Winter Camp
Gesher Chai between
Schools:
Gesher Chai Schools Connections between 14 schools in Beer-Sheva Bnei-Shimon
80,000 and Montreal

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Name of project or Israeli P2P Details:
delegation Recommendation
P2P delegations:
Hillel 10,000 Students from the Hillel Ben-Gurion University and Hillel
Montreal are developing joint programs including: video
conferences and community projects.
Young Leadership 10,000 Develop Young Leadership group in the region that will focus
on Jewish Identity and Connection to peer group in Montreal.
Teens Leadership 20,000 It has been the vision of P2K people in the region to form a
follow- up group for participants of the P2P Summer Mifgashim
and delegations. In 2006, the Israeli teens met every other week
to develop Leadership skills and deal with Jewish Identity.
Members of the projects participated in the delegations to Camp
CBB in the summer and Kif-Kef camp in the winter.
Publicity and Media 5,000 Every year the Partnership is publishing a yearly newspaper.
Professional Exchange 10,000 Reciprocal visits of delegations with common areas of interest:
B2B, Medicine etc.
Artists Exchange 10,000 Exhibitions of artists from the region in Montreal and artists
from Montreal in the region
Bavel-Yeushalaim 10,000 Joint learning groups of our books in two centers; one in the
region and one in the community
Reserve 24,000 JAFI policy to secure funds for the changing dollars rates
Total P2P budget
395,000
proposal:

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