Zochrot Annual Report 2008 Zochrot (remembering) is an Israeli NGO (580389526) working since 2002 to raise awareness of the Nakba, Annual Report 2008 the Palestinian catastrophe of 1948. The Nakba is an unspoken taboo in Israeli discourse, its memory Click on a name to get to segmant expunged from from the official history of the country and from its physical landscape. Yet the Nakba 1. Staff is also the central trauma of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and its legacy continues to unfold today – in • Board of Directors • Oversight Committee the institunalization of inequality and violence, in the erasure of the past, and in the deteriorating plight 2. Conference on the Return of the Palestinian refugees. We hope that by talking about the Nakba in Hebrew, the language spoken by the Jewish majority in Israel, we can engage the public in learning about and taking responsibility of the Palestinian Refugees for the Nakba and its enduring consequences. A just and workable resolution to the conflict must be 3. Landscape and Space founded on this acknowledgment and on the pursuit of equality for all peoples of the region, including • Tours of destroyed Palestinian localities the right of the refugees to return. • Commemorative events • Advocacy • Ad hoc activities • Bridging memory The sixtieth anniversary of the Nakba was commemorated in 2008, along with the sixtieth anniversary • Jerusalem branch celebrations of the establishment of the state of Israel. This conjunction raised awareness of the tragedy 4. Information and Resources that made possible the creation of the Jewish state. The Nakba became a term widely used in the media, • Website • Visitors’ center • Booklets often in completely unrelated contexts (for example, a fan of HaPo’el Tel Aviv who was mourning the demolition of the Ussishkin basketball court called it “HaPo’el fans’ Nakba”). There was a feeling that • Visual material • Testimonies project everyone was talking about the Nakba, but there’s no guarantee they knew very much about it. Some • The journal “Sedek” • Art gallery probably tried to learn more about a word they’d heard so often, but the impression is that not many • Zochrot in the media • English brochure Israelis really learned much about the Nakba despite the frequent references to it. In 2008, Zochrot 5. Education continued to conduct tours of Palestinian villages destroyed in the Nakba, hold commemorative • Encountering the Nakba - A Learning events, operate an information center and gallery, publish the journal “Sedek”, organize seminars, film Packet in Hebrew • Teachers’ groups video testimonies and conduct various educational activities. Two new projects stood out in 2008: A • Zochrot youth • Evening lecture series conference in Tel Aviv on the Return of Palestinian Refugees, and publication a Learning Packet about • Workshops and lectures the Nakba, in Hebrew, to be used by Jewish-Israeli teachers. • A joint project with Mahapach - Taghir • Participation in conferences 6. Capacity Building • Development of organizational capabilities • Strategic planning • resource development • Zochrot volunteers Staff Umar Ighbarieh, Tour coordinator Annual Report 2008 Eitan Bronstein, Director (full time) (1/2 capacity) One of Zochrot’s founders. Previously involved Umar is a professional group leader, focusing 1. Staff in political education in various organizations. in particular on the Arab-Jewish conflict. • Board of Directors • Oversight Committee Worked for a number of years in the Shalom He coordinated the youth section of the 2. Conference on the Return school in Neve Shalom/Wa’hat al Salaam, Shalom school in Neve Shalom before joining Zochrot in 2006. Today he is also the localities of the Palestinian Refugees organizing youth activities. Born in Argentina; raised from age 5 in Kibbutz Bahan. Has three coordinator in the Karev Project for educational 3. Landscape and Space sons and a daughter. MA in Hermeneutics involvement. Studied group dynamics, Middle • Tours of destroyed Palestinian localities from Bar Ilan University. Eastern Studies and Arabic Literature at the • Commemorative events • Advocacy Hebrew University. Born in Musheirfa; lives • Ad hoc activities • Bridging memory Norma Musih, Associate Director with his family in Neve Shalom/Wahat al • Jerusalem branch (3/4 capacity) Salaam. 4. Information and Resources One of Zochrot’s founders. Mother of Amalya. • Website • Visitors’ center • Booklets Born in Argentina and grew up in Kibbutz Amir. Esther Goldenberg, Office manager (1/2 capacity) • Visual material • Testimonies project Studied art at Bezalel and is currently a doctoral student in Hermeneutics at Bar Ilan University. Studied history at Tel Aviv University. Born • The journal “Sedek” • Art gallery Leads groups and studies visual culture. in the Hungarian region of Romania and • Zochrot in the media • English brochure immigrated to Israel with her family when 5. Education Raneen Jeries, Testimonies Project she was 10. Joined Zochrot in 2006; also looks • Encountering the Nakba - A Learning (1/2 capacity) after other animals in various organizations. Packet in Hebrew • Teachers’ groups Ranin joined Zochrot in 2004. She leads Specializes in leading Zochrot’s tours to Jaffa. • Zochrot youth • Evening lecture series a program of women’s empowerment, • Workshops and lectures parenting and feminism. Active in a number of Tomer Gardi, Editor of Sedek (1/2 capacity) • A joint project with Mahapach - Taghir organizations working for social change, such as Assiwar, The Arab Feminist Movement in Researches and writes about history and • Participation in conferences Support of Victims of Sexual Violence. Ranin is culture. Lives in south Tel Aviv. BA in Literature 6. Capacity Building also a professional singer. She has a BA in social and Education from the Hebrew University; • Development of organizational capabilities work from Tel Aviv University and is studying MA in Intercultural Education from Freie • Strategic planning • resource development in its clinical social work MA program. Born in Universitaet Berlin. Tomer joined Zochrot in • Zochrot volunteers Kafr Yassif and lives in Haifa. 2006. Michal Padeh, Coordinator of Resource Oshra Bar, Office manager (1/2 capacity) Annual Report 2008 Development (1/2 capacity) Joined Zochrot in September, replacing Esther Completing her research for an MA in Goldenberg. 1. Staff Anthropology from Ben Gurion University, • Board of Directors • Oversight Committee dealing with Israelis encountering the Tomer Baliti Dagan, Leads group 2. Conference on the Return Nakba in the local landscape by means discussions for teachers in Jerusalem of Zochrot’s tours. Lives in Tel Aviv. (freelance) of the Palestinian Refugees Trains teachers and involved in developing 3. Landscape and Space Amaya Galili, Educational Coordinator teachers’ knowledge, language and professional • Tours of destroyed Palestinian localities (3/4 capacity) culture. BA in Bible and Mathematics, MA in • Commemorative events • Advocacy Joined Zochrot at the beginning of 2007. the Sociology of Education. Currently writing a • Ad hoc activities • Bridging memory Involved in community work relating to doctoral dissertation on teacher training. • Jerusalem branch social and economic rights. BA in Sociology 4. Information and Resources and Anthropology from the Hebrew Oded Zipory, Coordinator of Zochrot’s • Website • Visitors’ center • Booklets University, and MA in Community Social youth group (freelance) Work from McGill University, Canada. Involved in formal and informal education. BA • Visual material • Testimonies project Grew up on Kibbutz Amir, lives in Tel Aviv. in History and Education from the Kibbutzim • The journal “Sedek” • Art gallery College of Education. • Zochrot in the media • English brochure Avivit Gros-Allon, Graphic Designer 5. Education (1/2 capacity) Tamar Avraham, Coordinator of activities • Encountering the Nakba - A Learning BA in Visual Communication Design from in Jerusalem (freelance) Packet in Hebrew • Teachers’ groups the Holon Institute of Technology. Mother of Organizes study groups and activities dealing • Zochrot youth • Evening lecture series Naomi born in March 2009. with the Nakba in West Jerusalem. MA in • Workshops and lectures Catholic Theology. Courses in Judaism, Rona Even, Organizer of the conference Islam, Religious Studies and History. Lives in • A joint project with Mahapach - Taghir on the refugee’s return Jerusalem. • Participation in conferences (1/2 capacity, 6 months) 6. Capacity Building Worked for Zochrot for six months organizing Hadas Snir, Researcher for the exhibition, • Development of organizational capabilities the conference. Rona is a video producer, and “Constituent Violence 1947-1950.” • Strategic planning • resource development a political activist, lives in Jaffa. Researcher in documentary films. Studied Art • Zochrot volunteers History. Annual Report 2008 Board of Directors Eitan Reich, Chairman 1. Staff Shlomit Bauman • Board of Directors • Oversight Committee Uri Gopher 2. Conference on the Return Dalit Baum Talya Fried of the Palestinian Refugees Sheshtin Sadragron 3. Landscape and Space Javier Sabah • Tours of destroyed Palestinian localities • Commemorative events • Advocacy • Ad hoc activities • Bridging memory Oversight Committee • Jerusalem branch 4. Information and Resources Ahmad Hijazi • Website • Visitors’ center • Booklets Khoulud Edris • Visual material • Testimonies project • The journal “Sedek” • Art gallery • Zochrot in the media • English brochure 5. Education