The Locals - Eye Level Dialogue

The objective of the project is to expose the background to the spread of crime in Arab society, the causes which resulted in the state of affairs we are experiencing today, the feelings of Arab citizens, and to indicate the steps necessary for eradicating the phenomenon. This is in order to allow for as much of Israeli society as possible to gain an understanding of the background, processes, and terror in which the majority of the Palestinian citizens of Israel live, to dissolve such prejudices as that of Arab society being fundamentally violent, without respect for state laws, and to recruit the entire Israeli public to support the justified demands of Arab citizens for a sane and safe life.

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This year (2021), we have chosen to emphasize an important and less familiar angle to most Jewish society in Israel and convey a more optimistic message.

The campaign includes a glimpse into the world of successful business men and women, entrepreneurs, academics from diverse fields, ventures in education, social action and more.

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In order to raise awareness of this issue among the Israeli public, the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in collaboration with Givat Haviva has launched a campaign on social media to raise awareness among the Israeli public of inequality in the distribution of budgets between Jewish and Arab-Palestinian citizens in the country and the need to change this situation.

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The Friedrich Ebert Foundation and Givat Haviva are working together to improve relations between Jews and Arabs in Israel and promote the values of partnership and equality. The May 2021 events brought the importance of these values and of the promotion of a shared society in Israel to the surface.
 

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The Friedrich Ebert Foundation and Givat Haviva are working together to improve relations between Jews and Arabs in Israel and promote the values of partnership and equality. The May 2021 events brought the importance of these values and of the promotion of a shared society in Israel to the surface.
We believe in the importance of education; in teaching the concept of a shared society, starting in early childhood (pre-school), all the way through 12th grade.

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Following the outbreak of Covid in Israel, and the concern of a second wave, the Givat Haviva, Arab-Jewish Center for Peace, with the collaboration of the US embassy in Israel, the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and the I’lam Center, initiated an online video campaign starring Jewish and Arab medical personnel who have been fighting the virus side by side.

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We intended this campaign to get to the relevant audiences as fast as possible, and to do it, we used videos and pictures showing “right” and “wrong” ways of conduct and response, while helping to urgently spread the message among Arab society online.

Using animation, the video and the pictures depicted common social situations in Arab society, explaining how to replace them with safer and more spread-out gatherings, using the animated figures who represented family and social characters in Arab society.

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Givat Haviva and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Israel embarked on The Locals – Eye Level Dialogue in 2019, to reach audiences in the heart of Israeli society, who had not given any thought to the effect of the Nation-State Law and its implications on Arab-Palestinian citizens and on Israeli society at large. The campaign features videos of Arab-Palestinans from different vocations who are involved in Israeli society. We felt it was important to show the Israeli public how the interviewees felt about the Law. We did not presume to offer concrete solutions, rather tried to evoke interest and conversation on the subject, in hope of encouraging understanding of the problematic situation and its effect on the citizens of the country.

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