Givat Haviva is developing an exciting variety of new shared society programs, some of which are already underway, and others are expected to launch in the coming months, pending funding. Here is a survey of our new programs:
New Programs Underway:

Hybrid Youth Encounters
When Covid curtailed in-person programming, Givat Haviva developed a virtual format for youth encounters. While these reduced costs and logistics, making the encounters more accessible, the in person, face to face meetings between the Jewish and Arab youth. read more...

Education Leaders Mediation Training
School principals & social coordinators are called upon to act in heterogeneous and complex environments, where diverse religious, national, political, gender, and socio-economic groups meet, to resolve conflicts, instill a benign school culture, and impart values of shared society to students.read more...

Hebrew +
Building on years of experience with Hebrew Language Enrichment, Givat Haviva has launched a pilot 30-hour teacher training specifically on teaching Hebrew as a second language..read more...

Mumken: Arabic for Employment Accessibility
In cooperation with Joint Israel, Givat Haviva delivers training in basic, spoken Arabic to human resource professionals, managers, career development professionals, and others working with the Arab population in Israel. The course is designed to enable them to better meets the needs of jobseekers and employees, to be able to put them at ease and to better perceive their strengths, and to promote Arab employment and workplace integration as the ultimate goal. .read more...

Jewish and Arab Artists-in-Residence
Recent graduates of Israel’s leading art institutions have great difficulty making the transition from art student to working artist.read more...

Mediation and Dialogue Centers for Arab Towns
In accordance with recommendations by the Committee of Heads of Arab Authorities in Israel and the Executive Committee set up by the government to deal with violence and crime in Arab society, Givat Haviva proposes to set up Mediation and Dialogue Centers in a pilot of five Arab municipalities. 
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Cross Sector Teachers Exchange
In the absence of an integrated educational system in Israel, this program aims to bring Jewish and Arab teachers into each other’s schools. read more...

Equal Representation in Public Service
Arab citizens, who make up over 22% of Israel’s population, comprise only 12.2% of public service employees, preponderantly in the health sector.

Shared Society Teacher Training
In line with government mandates for shared society training for educators and with the recommendations drawn up in Givat Haviva’s Roadmap for a Shared Society Program, Givat Haviva delivers shared society training to Jewish and Arab teachers, sparking a connective and transformative process for the teachers themselves, while giving them skills to guide their students through fraught topics of identity and encounters across ethnic lines. read more...

Hebrew Language Enrichment (Safa M’shutefet)
In 2014 Givat Haviva began placing Jewish teachers in Arab schools to teach spoken Hebrew while bringing a modicum of integration to the schools as goodwill representatives of Jewish society. In 2020, the Ministry of Education expanded support for the program, recognizing Givat Haviva as an essential partner, assuming pedagogical responsibility, providing the teachers with professional pedagogical support, and assessing the program. read more...

Bara’em Hi-Tech Seeds
The Bara’em Hi-Tech program at Givat Haviva gives promising Arab high school students in Israel, many from disadvantaged backgrounds, the opportunity to study computer engineering and technology, and earn credits toward a bachelor’s degree in computer science while still in high school.  read more...

Two-Day Youth Encounters
Givat Haviva remains the national leader in Jewish-Arab youth encounters, bringing groups from Arab and Jewish schools together for two days of intensive, facilitated encounters for both the students and the educators who accompany them.   read more...

Through Others’ Eyes
For over 20 years Givat Haviva has been offering Through Others Eyes, convening a group of Arab and Jewish youth from the region for a year-long program in which they get to know each other and learn about each other’s lives, using photography as a vehicle to explore and express the complex realities they discover.   read more...

Children Teaching Children (CTC)
Children Teaching Children (CTC), which began in 1987 and has encompassed over 30,000 Arab and Jewish students is a civics study and encounter program that connects Arab and Jewish middle school students and their teachers, and equips them with tools to promote respect and mutual understanding. 
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Arabic Studies
The Institute for Arabic Studies, established as part of the Jewish-Arab Center for Peace at Givat Haviva in 1963, is the oldest and the most experienced in the country. While Arabic is ostensibly a standard element in the Israeli curriculum, many schools do not teach Arabic, and those that do focus on literary Arabic, which is not useful for conversation.  read more...

GH Art Gallery
On Saturday, October 16, 2021, a solo exhibition by Aisha Arar opened at the GH Art Gallery. The exhibition will feature paintings, drawings, video, performance and visual texts. Aisha, a young and talented Arab artist, is a graduate of the Jaljulia Art College. This is her first solo exhibition in Israel.   read more...

GHIS
The Givat Haviva International School is in its fourth year of operation, this year adding 25 local Arab and Jewish 10th graders to the hundred 11th and 12th graders from Israel and around the world in the English-speaking boarding school.  read more...