Findings from a new report released last week by the SHATIL-founded Coalition for Public Health point to a direct link between air pollution and increased morbidity in children.

On Monday, SHATIL, along with 18 fellows and more than a dozen social change organizations, celebrated the end of a major two year pilot to train a cadre of economists and other professionals who will promote a more socially sensitive government policy. The carefully chosen fellows, all senior staff in government offices (including the Ministry of Finance)  and other professional bodies, experienced a complex, pro

Sara Gavri is a 24-year old social work student who recently began participating in SHATIL's Ethiopian Youth-at-Risk Forum in Haifa.

"This population is in dire need of personal attention. And that's what this project gives them."  - Lina Sharon, principal, HaOren High School, Yavneh  "OK, do it again from the beginning. Now get the square root….So if this is 20, this is…?

SHATIL's Avi Dabush takes advantage of the New Year Tav-Shin-Ayin (תש"ע - 5770) which spells out the word "nine" in Hebrew ((תשע to urge Israel's leaders to take on nine critical tasks to save the environment: The following is excerpted from his Ynet article (See the full piece in Hebrew at

The Israeli government last week pledged to Israel's Supreme Court to allocate NIS 70 million ($18.7 million) for paving and improving the infrastructure of roads leading to schools in eight recognized and five unrecognized Bedouin villages in the Negev.

In the following story, SHATIL gives you a bird's eye view of our Back from the Edge project to assist immigrant youth at risk in one Be'er Sheva school in the last academic year: 

The Life Skills lesson for the day: "Sexual Relations at What Price?" The class: a 10th grade "Challenge" class, the lowest of the three levels in the Tuviahu School in Be'er Sheva.

On September 7, 70 activists, architects, government officials and others from all walks of life in the Negev, gathered to gain inspiration for local action from world-renowned environmental activist, author and founder of "350", a global movement to reduce carbon emissions, Bill McKibben.  

This summer, representatives of Hiyot, an academic Ethiopian women's organization in the north that works with women and youth of Ethiopian origin, participated in the SHATIL course, Branding for Social Change, run by a marketing expert from one of Israel's biggest businesses.

The start of the school year in Israel is never simple: This year, kindergarten and special education administrative staff are on strike in some municipalities, only a last minute compromise enabled Ethiopian children in Petah Tikva to start first grade and on the first day of school, pupils attacked a teacher in a school near Jerusalem.