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Mission Statement and Activity Areas |
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Mission Statement
MERCHAVIM’s
mission is to help all Israel’s 7.5 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
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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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Who We Are 
