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Mission Statement and Activity Areas
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Mission Statement
MERCHAVIM’s mission is to help all Israel’s 7.7 million citizens to live together better by learning about each other, valuing diversity, developing a shared civic awareness and cooperating to make their classrooms and communities, fairer and more cohesive
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Areas of Activity

• Developing a range of shared citizenship educational programs for students from pre-school to high school, serving the needs of Israel’s four separate school streams: Jewish secular, religious, ultra-orthodox and Arab-Israeli.

• Training diverse groups of teachers to implement the programs in schools
and kindergartens, in partnership with the Ministry of Education

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• Providing ongoing in-service support for teachers implementing shared citizenship programming in schools and kindergartens, including the provision of teaching aids and materials, and encouraging encounters between teachers, students and families from different school streams.

• Evaluation to measure knowledge acquisition and attitudinal change of program participants  
 
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