June 23rd 2009
Last week, six SHATIL-Porter Environmental Fellows presented the results of year-long projects conducted during their internships in major environmental organizations in a day that clearly showed the societal impact possible when civil society and academia join hands to promote social and environmental change.
Among the projects: an agricultural community garden for Ethiopian immigrants; an [...]

June 16th 2009
The advocacy efforts of dozens of organizations, led by SHATIL/NIF, Yedid, and others, resulted in a government decision to increase by more than threefold (from NIS 30 to NIS 100 million for 2009 and an additional NIS100 million for 2010) an emergency fund for civil society organizations suffering from the financial crisis as [...]

June 16th 2009
The first environmental film festival in the desert, an employment workshop for people with disabilities in Tel Aviv, a project to recommend policy on budgets for medical experts in the periphery, a community garden for Ethiopian immigrants and at least five new blogs – these are just a few of the practical outcomes [...]

June 2nd 2009
It started with a sharp-eyed SHATIL staffer from our Social and Economic Justice Project noticing a small item in a local northern newspaper; led to an intensive advocacy and media campaign involving local cancer patients and many partners; and reached a mid-way success in which the government agreed to pay the transport costs [...]

June 2nd 2009
When Shmulik Merzel lived in Petah Tikva, he passed by a piece of racist graffiti while walking his dog near a public school every day. “Death to the Arabs”, painted in large letters on a wall, was also the message school children saw twice a day on their way to and from school. [...]