As June came to a close, the school year came to an end. Thousands of local children between the ages of 5 and 11 rushed happily to join a range of summer programming put on by the elementary schools, the municipality and the network of city community centers. Not so lucky are the children aged 12 and over, who are not included. For those families for whom economic circumstances make them unlikely to go on vacation, or whose parents have to work and can’t take time off, the s

Three members of the Akko Educators’ Kibbutz recently received accreditation after attending a training course held throughout the year at the Beit Berl Academic College for coordinators of shared society education. The course brought together educators and educational managers from across the country to develop the necessary skills to properly approach the challenges of educating towards shared society. “We all came together, Jewish and Arab students, to get the appropriate

The Lionesses of Akko, a support and leadership-training group for young mothers and local women, and the Akko Educators’ Kibbutz latest project, entered its second month in July. Every week on Monday afternoons, a group of 15 women from the Korczak neighborhood meet in the Kibbutz building’s community center to spend the afternoon together. There, guided by kibbutz members Shelly and Inbal, the Lionesses of Akko meet to discuss a range of topics relevant to their lives while

For the past six months, a group of Jewish and Arab students at the Western Galilee Academic College participated in a one-of-a-kind course on the subject of Jewish-Arab relations in mixed cities led jointly by Gabriel Freund of the Akko Educators’ Kibbutz and Yuval Achouch, a professor of sociology and college faculty member. The course, run for the first time ever in 2019, engaged students with the dilemmas and challenges of overcoming conflict in mixed societies all over t