Givʿat Chaviva

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Giv'at Chaviva ( Hebrew גִּבְעַת חֲבִיבָהor Arabic جبعات حبيبةor English Givat Haviva ) is a non-profit Israeli educational and dialogue institution that advocates for Jewish - Arab understanding. Its central campus is on the Sharon Plain , halfway between Tel Aviv and Haifa and between Hadera and Umm al-Fahm .

Peace tree in Giv'at Chaviva

history

Giv'at Chaviva was founded in 1949 as a cultural foundation of the kibbutzim of the Hashomer Hatzair movement and named after Chaviva Reik , a resistance fighter against National Socialism, in honor and memory .

When it became clearer over time that the freedom and equality of the kibbutz movement and the inequality of Israelis and Arabs were in contradiction, the organization began to turn to Jewish-Arab understanding. In 1963 the Jewish-Arab Center for Peace was founded. Since then, the aim has been to promote the integration of the Arab minority into the Jewish state, to contribute to mutual acquaintance and understanding between Jews and Arabs, and to promote peace research in the Middle East . The organization itself is based on the equality of Arabs and Jews. Half of the staff and the board of directors are made up of Palestinian citizens of Israel .

activities

Workshops for children and young people are offered in the Jewish Arab Center and exhibitions by Israeli and Palestinian artists are held in the Art Center. Giv'at Chaviva also organizes courses on Arabic language and culture for English-speaking foreigners.

The Center for a divided society (shared society) organizes projects for practical cooperation between Jewish and Arab-Palestinian communities, participates with conferences, policy proposals and statements in public discourse and develops initiatives to promote equal opportunities for disadvantaged populations.

In 2000 the organization presented its project “Children teach children” at the Expo in Hanover .

From 2003 to 2011, Giv'at Chaviva ran the Israeli-Palestinian radio station Kol HaShalom - All for peace together with the Palestinian Biladi Foundation . The European Union provided the start-up funding of 600,000 euros. The managing director was the Meretz politician Mossi Ras , former chairman of Peace Now . In 2011, the Israeli Ministry of Communications pushed through the suspension of FM broadcasting of Kol HaShalom's Hebrew-language programs at the instigation of Likud politician Danny Danon .

The historian Ilan Pappe founded the Institute for Peace Research in Giv'at Chaviva in 1992, which he led as academic director until 2000.

The Giv'at Chaviva Cultural Foundation awarded the Chaviva Reik Prize between 1994 and 2009 to honor personalities who are committed to human rights, peace and understanding.

At the beginning of the school year, the Givat Haviva International School started operations in September 2018 - an upper school boarding school for students in the eleventh and twelfth grades, who can acquire the International Abitur (IB DP) there and should be equipped with leadership skills in conflict resolution. The concept includes an internationally mixed student body with the recruitment of foreign students from different countries, with only a quarter each Jewish and Arab Israelis.

International support

For its project work, Giv'at Chaviva is dependent on support from private and institutional donations from abroad. For the purpose of collecting donations and for public relations work, groups of friends have been set up as associations in Germany and Switzerland (1995) and Austria (1998). The Dagmar Schmidt Foundation, founded in 2007 in memory of its former chairwoman, is part of the German Circle of Friends' activities . Giv'at Chaviva has its own representative for Europe and is also represented in Canada and the USA with its own sponsorship foundations.

In 2017, the German Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and in October the incumbent Federal Council President and Rhineland-Palatinate Prime Minister Malu Dreyer paid visits to Giv'at Chaviva as part of official trips to Israel and the Palestinian Territories. The federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate has been funding Giv'at Chaviva since 1995, and in 2017 the state chancellery stated that the annual funding was “around 100,000 euros”.

Awards

literature

  • With the eyes of the other: The Jewish-Arab mutual agreement initiative Givat Haviva: Issue 22 of the series of publications of the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate, Mainz 2004 ( PDF version available online)

Web links

Commons : Giv'at Chaviva  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tom Segev : An Illuminating Gesture. In: Haaretz from May 19, 2005, accessed on October 11, 2018 (English)
  2. ↑ A Voice of Peace for the Middle East. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung of July 30, 2003, accessed on October 11, 2018
  3. ↑ Karoline Hutter: Israeli-Palestinian Radio: All for Peace. Heinrich Böll Foundation of July 9, 2008, accessed on October 11, 2018
  4. ^ Police Shut Down Illegal Arab-Leftist Radio. In: Arutz 7 from November 19, 2011, accessed on October 11, 2018 (English)
  5. ↑ Allegedly illegal: Voice of Peace falls silent. In: haGalil of December 4, 2011, accessed on October 11, 2018
  6. ↑ Tamara Zieve: Givat Haviva to open International school for 'shared society leaders'. In: Jerusalem Post of March 18, 2018, accessed October 12, 2018
  7. ↑ In memory of Dagmar Schmidt. In: Der Westen from March 7, 2015, accessed on October 12, 2018
  8. ↑ Steinmeier: Givat Haviva peace project - an "island of hope". In: Deutsche Welle of May 8, 2017, accessed on October 11, 2018
  9. ↑ Malu Dreyer assures Israel "unbreakable friendship". Press release of the state government of Rhineland-Palatinate from October 25, 2017, accessed on October 12, 2018
  10. ↑ Malu Dreyer: Cooperation in Education and for Jewish-Arab Reconciliation. Press release of the state government of Rhineland-Pfals dated September 22, 2017, accessed on October 12, 2018