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Beresheet LaShalom Multi-Cultural Youth Leadership Hub at Mount Meron is a unique project in which young Jews and
Arabs spend a year of their lives together working on educational dialogue.
Hsinsinim live and act as a model of true partnership between young people
in various sectors with a shared vision of cultural and social change. Hsinsinm
are guides and role models for children and youth from all backgrounds,
with the instruments of the arts and ecology.
Beresheet LaShalom Foundation was formally registered in May 2004 but operates two
national projects, regularly, since the beginning of 2001. The founders are Jews and Arabs
of the Galilee, educators, university professors and entrepreneurs.
The Community Association was conceived in 2000, with the mission to educate to
dialogue and co-existence through the arts, and has since been engaged in
creating heterogeneous interactive groups of different age, religion, culture,
language and social origin.
The association endeavors to create deep and meaningful relationships built on
the foundation of
true friendship between the different participants in activities it has
initiated in Israel and abroad.
Beresheet LaShalom believes that in
order to ensure the future of the State of Israel cooperative
action must initiated and continued in order to build trust and reciprocity between Jews and Arabs. - a real
existence. A positive environment where the whole population can develop, improve
and create. . . together!
Nature of the activity.
Special contribution to society and development of the Galilee.
Service in the Mount Meron nucleus offers many challenges to the Hshinisnim group:
on a personal level, developing leadership capabilities, providing tools to
influence society and to make the most of the potential of each individual.
Three days a week are devoted to volunteering.
Volunteers work in mixed Jewish and Arab teams in communities around the Upper Galilee (Gush-Halav, Alma, Hurfeish, Schaffer, Rehaniya), in schools, youth
clubs and with children
and youth at risk.
A day
in the week is devoted to dialogue within the group, to formulate enrichment.
Another day is dedicated to training in ecology, environmental studies, and
theater workshops.
Educational activities for co-existence of Beresheet LaShalom :
• community theater groups for social change and dialogue of different age
- 3 groups - children, teenagers, graduates.
• weekly radio program is managed by Sinsinim trainees.
• Now a team of Jewish and Arab children and youth.
Project of community service:
Joint working group of volunteering in the community.
Residential two separate buildings for boys and girls, Mount Meron Field School.
Young people receive training is concentrated during the summer, and then close
escort training once a week throughout the year in the following areas:
• Preparing social and cultural events - a combination of social education
schools
• Communications media - radio program
• Training guides for the afternoon activities in the communities
• Ecology and Environment - Training to establish youth and children classes in
ecology.
• Group Development - Leadership and consolidation, creating the ability
to establish working groups of different youths
Accompanied the group counsellor and trainer Jewish Itineraries
Activity:
Mount Meron young pairs are mixed Jewish-Arab 3 days during morning and
afternoon at various schools in the Galilee.
Each week will go some - 8 hours and 6 hours of training in formulating and
strengthening the social group, as a basis for personal strength and assistance
missions standing difficult.
During the year the group performs a number of plays and may appear in Israel and
abroad
Edna@beresheetlashalom.org
 Established in 1964, Mount Meron Field School is situated on
30 acres of natural wood groves in the midst of a beautiful
nature reserve in the upper Galilee on the northern slopes
of Mount Meron, near Safed.
Mount
Meron Field School hosts international researchers, who come
to study the flora and fauna of the unique nature reserve.
Located directly on the Israel Trail, the Field School also
hosts many trail hikers and campers.
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