Tu Bishvat, the Holiday of Trees, marks the halfway point for the school year in Israel. It is also around the time that schools here distribute midyear report cards. The holiday gives us a perfect opportunity to take a look at another great project of our educators' Kibbutz, the Humanity, Society & Nature High School in Karmiel, which adopts an alternative qualitative approach to the idea of midyear evaluation through an innovative student-led exhibition. The exhibition is c

Our relationship with the Youngstown Jewish Community started three years ago, when the Thomases Family Endowment decided to support the activities of the Akko Shared Existence Center. This initial connection has gradually developed into a deeper partnership. We first met with Sara Wilschek at the beginning of 2017, when she impressed us with the youthful, vibrant energy of the Youngstown Jewish Community at the Partnership 2000 Western Galilee Steering Committee meeting. Myr

As the Syrian Civil War continues to rage, leaving an extreme humanitarian crisis in its wake, Israeli youth led by the HaNoar HaOved VeHalomed youth movement, Dror Israel and the Combat Genocide Association, have decided to roll out Operation Human Warmth – a massive nation-wide aid effort – for the third time in the past five years to save innocent lives in Syria. The civil war over the border continues to amass casualties. According to the UN, since the beginning of the fi

We’re on the way As this post goes live, the three of us, members of the Dror Israel delegation to the US (Gilad Perry, Tamara Ben Shalom, and Shraga Eli Stern) will already be in the air. We decided to set out on another delegation in order to continue to get to know and establish further links with Jewish communities in the US and to tell the story of Dror Israel and our flagship project in Akko: The Akko Educators’ Kibbutz. When possible, we always prefer the face to face