Annual Report 2007 Click on a name to get to segmant 1. Staff • Board of Directors • Oversight Committee 2. Landscape and Space • Tours to destroyed Palestinian villages • Commemorations • Preservation • Activism • map showing the [Remembering] is an Israeli NGO working since 2002 to raise awareness of the , the Palestinian villages Palestinian catastrophe of 1948. The Nakba is an unspoken taboo in Israeli discourse, its memory 3. Information and Resources expunged from the official history of the country and from its physical landscape. Yet the Nakba is also • Internet site • Visitors Center the central trauma of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and its legacy continues to unfold today - in the • Booklets • Visual materials institutionalization of inequality and violence, in the erasure of the past, and in the deteriorating plight • Testimonies • “Sedek” of the . We hope that by talking about the Nakba in Hebrew, the language spoken • Gallery • Zochrot in the media by the Jewish majority in , we can engage the public in learning about and taking responsibility for the Nakba and its enduring consequences. A just and workable resolution to the conflict must be 4. Education founded on this acknowledgment and on the pursuit of equality for all peoples of the region, including • Teachers groups • Educational kit the right of the refugees to return. • Joint project with Mahapach-Taghir Zochrot’s activities continued to develop and expand in 2007 with a number of additional projects: the • Zochrot Youth • Lecture Series first issue of Sedek appeared, published by Zochrot; the opening of an art gallery in Zochrot’s offices; • Lectures to groups • Talks at conferences the publication of a map of Tel Aviv showing the location of destroyed Palestinian villages that had • Right of Return group stood on land now included within the city’s boundaries; and work on a educational kit for teaching about the Nakba in schools. • Youth activities • Lectures to Palestinian groups 5. Capacity Building • Resource Development Staff Raneen Jeries, Testimony Project Annual Report 2007 Eitan Bronstein, Director (full time) (1/2 time) One of Zochrot’s founders, he previously Raneen joined Zochrot in 2004. She runs 1. Staff worked with various organizations on programs aimed at empowering women, • Board of Directors • Oversight Committee educational projects to develop political parenting and feminism. Active in a awareness. For a number of years he was number of organizations for social change 2. Landscape and Space on the staff of the School for Peace in Neve such as Asiwar, an Arab feminist movement • Tours to destroyed Palestinian villages Shalom/Wahat al Salam, and coordinated in support of victims of sexual assault. • Commemorations activities there. Born in Argentina, from Raneen is also a professional singer. She holds • Preservation the age of 5 grew up in Bahan. a BA in social work from Tel Aviv University • Activism Father of three sons and a daughter. MA and is studying for an MA in Clinical Social • Tel Aviv map showing the in Hermeneutics from Bar Ilan University. Work. Born in Kafr Yasif, she lives in Haifa. Palestinian villages Norma Musih, Assistant Director (3/4 time) Umar Ighbarieh, Full Day Tours 3. Information and Resources One of Zochrot’s founders. Amalia’s mother. Coordinator (1/2 time) • Internet site • Visitors Center Born in Argentina and raised in Kibbutz Amir. Umar is a group dynamics professional, • Booklets • Visual materials Studied art at Bezalel, and is presently a specializing in the Jewish-Arab conflict. • Testimonies • “Sedek” doctoral student in Hermeneutics at Bar He coordinated the youth department at • Gallery • Zochrot in the media Ilan University. Leads workshops in group Neve ShalomWahat al Salam before joining 4. Education dynamics and conducts research on Zochrot in 2006. Currently he is also a local visual culture. coordinator in the Karev program for • Teachers groups • Educational kit educational involvement. Studied group • Joint project with Mahapach-Taghir Talia Fried, Information Management dynamics at the Hebrew University, in • Zochrot Youth • Lecture Series and Design (3/4 time) addition to Middle East Studies and • Lectures to groups • Talks at conferences Joined Zochrot in 2003. BA in Sociology and Literature. He was born in Musherifa and lives • Right of Return group Minority Relations from Boston University, with his family in Neve Shalom/Wahat al Salam. • Youth activities and MA in Social Psychology from Tel Aviv Esther Goldenberg, Office Manager • Lectures to Palestinian groups University. Talia was born in the and has lived in Tel Aviv since 1997. (1/2 time) 5. Capacity Building BA student in History at Tel Aviv University. • Resource Development Born in the Hungarian region of Romania and came to Israel with her family when Annual Report 2007 she was 10. Joined Zochrot in 2006, and Avivit Gross, Graphic Designer (1/2 time) is also active in various animal rights Succeeded Talia Fried in October, 2007. BA 1. Staff organizations. As part of her work for Zochrot, in Design of Visual Communication from the • Board of Directors • Oversight Committee she specializes in leading tours to Jaffa. Holon Institute of Technology. MA student in Hermeneutics at Bar Ilan University. 2. Landscape and Space Tomer Gardi, Editor of Sedek (1/2 time) • Tours to destroyed Palestinian villages Writer and researcher of history and culture. Tomer Baliti Dagan, Facilitator - teachers • Commemorations Lives in south Tel Aviv. BA in Literature and group, Jerusalem (freelance) • Preservation Education from the Hebrew University, Teacher and advisor in a Jerusalem high school. • Activism and MA in Intercultural Education from the Trains teachers and helps them develop • Tel Aviv map showing the Freie Universitat, Berlin. Tomer joined Zochrot their knowledge, language and professional in 2006. culture. BA in Bible and Mathematics, MA in Palestinian villages Educational Sociology. Writing a doctorate on 3. Information and Resources Michal Padeh, Coordinator of Resource teacher training. • Internet site • Visitors Center Development (1/2 time) • Booklets • Visual materials Succeeded Friederike Schwartzer in March, Oded Zipory, Zochrot Youth coordinator • Testimonies • “Sedek” 2007. Writing an MA thesis in Anthropology at (freelance) • Gallery • Zochrot in the media Ben Gurion University on Israelis’ exposure to the Works in formal and informal education. BA 4. Education remains of the Nakba surrounding them through in History and Education from the Kibbutz Zochrot’s field trips. Lives in Tel Aviv. Teacher Training Seminary. • Teachers groups • Educational kit • Joint project with Mahapach-Taghir Amaya Galili. Educational Coordinator Tamar Avraham, Coordinator of activities • Zochrot Youth • Lecture Series (3/4 time) in Jerusalem (freelance) • Lectures to groups • Talks at conferences Joined Zochrot at the beginning of 2007. Joined Zochrot in 2005. Leads field trips to • Right of Return group Has a background in community work on and collects material on Arab neighborhoods • Youth activities issues of human and economic rights. BA in in Jerusalem before the Nakba, and organizes Sociology and Anthropology from the Hebrew study groups focusing on them. MA in Catholic • Lectures to Palestinian groups University, and MA in Community Social Work Theology. Also studied Judaism, Islam, 5. Capacity Building from McGill University, Canada. Raised on Religious Sciences and History. Lives in • Resource Development Kibbutz Amir, lives in Tel Aviv. Jerusalem. Annual Report 2007 Board of Directors Eitan Reich, Chairman 1. Staff Sami Abushehadeh • Board of Directors • Oversight Committee Louise Bethlehem Fatma Kassem 2. Landscape and Space Tal Dor • Tours to destroyed Palestinian villages Shlomit Bauman • Commemorations Uri Gopher • Preservation Dalit Baum • Activism Yuval Tamari • Tel Aviv map showing the Palestinian villages Oversight Committee 3. Information and Resources • Internet site • Visitors Center Ahmad Hijazi • Booklets • Visual materials Talia Fried • Testimonies • “Sedek” • Gallery • Zochrot in the media Zochrot undertakes four types of 4. Education activities, and this report devotes • Teachers groups • Educational kit • Joint project with Mahapach-Taghir a separate section to each of them: • Zochrot Youth • Lecture Series Landscape and Space; Information • Lectures to groups • Talks at conferences and Resources; Education; and • Right of Return group • Youth activities Capacity Building. • Lectures to Palestinian groups 5. Capacity Building • Resource Development Landscape and Space Tours to destroyed Palestinian villages Annual Report 2007 • Tours to destroyed Palestinian villages Zochrot conducts field tours to Palestinian • Commemorations • Preservation • Activism sites destroyed in the 1948 Nakba, and to those which have survived. The purpose 1. Staff • Tel Aviv map showing the Palestinian villages • Board of Directors • Oversight Committee of these tours trips is to know these sites directly, hear the stories they have to tell, 2. Landscape and Space and meet refugees from these locations. • Tours to destroyed Palestinian villages These tours also motivate research into their • Commemorations history. On these tours special booklets are • Preservation published, in Hebrew and in Arabic, present • Activism the stories of these places. The field tours • Tel Aviv map showing the include full day tours aimed at the general public, as well as by invitation tours for Palestinian villages groups from Israel and from abroad. 3. Information and Resources • Internet site • Visitors Center In 2007 there were seven full day tours • Booklets • Visual materials open to the public – to Ramlah, Kafrayn, • Testimonies • “Sedek” , Miska, the villages (focusing • Gallery • Zochrot in the media on ‘), Ajami (in Jaffa) and al-Maliha 4. Education – although only six were originally planned. A total of about 750 people participated in • Teachers groups • Educational kit them, and . Five booklets were • Joint project with Mahapach-Taghir published for the tours to Kafrayn, Hittin, • Zochrot Youth • Lecture Series the Latrun villages, Ajami and Al Maliha. • Lectures to groups • Talks at conferences For the Ramlah tour we also printed T-shirts • Right of Return group criticizing the mayor’s racist remarks about • Youth activities the city’s Arab residents. The largest field tour was to the village of Miska, on Israel’s • Lectures to Palestinian groups Independence Day. Participants then joined 5. Capacity Building the March of the Return, organized by the Zochrot’s• Resource tour Development to Hittin nt Association for the Defense of the Rights • Fundraising of Internally Displaced , held connected to the residents’ struggle against Annual Report 2007 this year in a-. The tour to Hittin was the demolition of homes that began there a continuation of our opposition to the this year. The trips to Miska, Kafrayn, Latrun 1. Staff construction plans threatening to further and Ajami were reported by various news • Board of Directors • Oversight Committee reduce the village area in order to expand media. At the initiative of Wajih Atallah, the size of the Jethro Tomb compound. director of UYAC (Union of Youth Activity 2. Landscape and Space The trip to Jaffa’s Ajami neighborhood was Centers - Refugee Camps), some • Tours to destroyed Palestinian villages thirty refugees from Maliha joined the tour • Commemorations to that village as part of a joint project with • Preservation Zochrot; for some, this was their first visit. • Activism Participants in the trips to Al Maliha and • Tel Aviv map showing the Kafrayn replied to questionnaires whose purpose is to evaluate the 2007 and 2008 Palestinian villages field trips. Click here for the Zochrot’s Booklet on Hittin 3. Information and Resources (English portion at the last pages) • Internet site • Visitors Center • Booklets • Visual materials In 2007, for the first time, a tour was • Testimonies • “Sedek” cancelled. It had been planned for the village • Gallery • Zochrot in the media of ‘, on whose remains the 4. Education of Amqa was established. We attempted to negotiate with the moshav’s residents • Teachers groups • Educational kit and obtain their cooperation with the field • Joint project with Mahapach-Taghir trip, rather than trying to sneak in. Zochrot • Zochrot Youth • Lecture Series isn’t interested in confrontations with Jews • Lectures to groups • Talks at conferences who live on lands of Palestinian villages • Right of Return group destroyed in the Nakba, but in having them • Youth activities take an active part and accept responsibility. We held an initial meeting with the moshav • Lectures to Palestinian groups secretary, during which we discussed the 5. Capacity Building purpose of the tour. We promised not to Ramlah• Resource Developmentnt conduct it on the Sabbath, and to provide • Fundraising advance notice. As the date approached, Commemorations Annual Report 2007 the residents of the moshav forbade us For the fourth year in a row, Zochrot to conduct it. Zochrot and the ‘Amka organized a commemoration of the Dayr 1. Staff refugees decided not to go ahead with the Yassin massacre at the site of the village. • Board of Directors • Oversight Committee tour in order to avoid a confrontation with About 100 people participated, and heard the residents. testimony from a villager who fought in 2. Landscape and Space its defense. This was the first time that • Tours to destroyed Palestinian villages We organized 14 trips for Israeli groups, and we marched from the middle of Kanfey • Commemorations 28 for groups from abroad – to Jaffa, Lifta, Nesharim Street to the village, now the site • Preservation Miska, A’yn Karim, Summayl, Shaikh Muwannis of the Kfar Shaul Hospital. We erected signs • Activism and the Latrun villages (). referring to the village, and read out the • Tel Aviv map showing the names of the murdered victims. The event Almost 300 people participated in the was covered by various media outlets. Later, Palestinian villages tours for Israeli groups – from the Mandel Umar Ighbarieh from Zochrot met in Abu Dis 3. Information and Resources program; the Alternative Summer Camp; with some thirty refugees from the village as • Internet site • Visitors Center group leaders and students from Mahapach- well as other Palestinians, and showed them • Booklets • Visual materials Taghir; students from Beit Berl, at the photographs of the event. • Testimonies • “Sedek” initiative of Javier Sabah, a member of • Gallery • Zochrot in the media Zochrot studying at the college; students The second commemorative event in which 4. Education from Rabbis for Human Rights; and others. Zochrot participated was the March of Return About 370 people participated in the tours mentioned earlier. Held this year on Israel’s • Teachers groups • Educational kit for groups from abroad. Half of these tours Independence Day (!), hundreds of Jews and • Joint project with Mahapach-Taghir were to Lifta, guided by Tamar Avraham from thousands of Palestinians took part. • Zochrot Youth • Lecture Series Zochrot. A refugee from the village joined • Lectures to groups • Talks at conferences some of them and told his story. Other trips • Right of Return group were to Jaffa, led by Esther Goldenberg. • Youth activities Other destinations included Canada Park and Haifa. Some tours were conducted for • Lectures to Palestinian groups the EAPPI ecumenical group, others for 5. Capacity Building organizations supporting Zochrot abroad, • Resource Development and two for overseas Zionist groups. Commemoration of the Dayr Yassin massacre Preservation only ones submitted, as a challenge rather Annual Report 2007 In 2007, Zochrot continued to submit than as an impediment – in other words, objections to building plans that threatened to accept some of our proposals and 1. Staff to destroy and leave no trace of Palestinian incorporate them in future building plans • Board of Directors • Oversight Committee sites captured in 1948: two new objections for the town. submitted to building plans in the villages 2. Landscape and Space of Hittin and Summayl, as well as objections The objections to the building plans for • Tours to destroyed Palestinian villages which had been submitted in 2006 to Summayl, in the center of Tel Aviv, will be • Commemorations building plans in Yahud and in Hittin. Zochrot heard in 2008. At the beginning of the year, • Preservation submitted its objection to the plan in Hittin Zochrot received an indication that our • Activism in response to a request from villagers, Israeli activities were affecting the decision-makers. • Tel Aviv map showing the citizens, who had been displaced from the A member of the Tel Aviv municipality’s village. The initiative for the building plan strategic planning group asked Zochrot for Palestinian villages came from the community, which information about , in the southern 3. Information and Resources wants to expand the compound of the Tomb part of the city, as part of the process to • Internet site • Visitors Center of the Prophet Jethro by taking over some develop plans for the area. Eitan Bronstein • Booklets • Visual materials of the village land. The chair of the hearing was invited to a meeting of the Ministry of • Testimonies • “Sedek” by the Ministry of Interior’s District Planning Interior’s national preservation group that • Gallery • Zochrot in the media and Building Committee was hostile to the was held in in order to discuss the 4. Education objections submitted by the villagers and city’s Arab architectural heritage. by Zochrot. Nevertheless, the committee • Teachers groups • Educational kit decided that the village’s cemetery would • Joint project with Mahapach-Taghir not be encroached upon. A c t i v i s m • Zochrot Youth • Lecture Series In 2007, Zochrot carried out three public • Lectures to groups • Talks at conferences The chair of the Planning Committee direct action campaigns. • Right of Return group dealing with building plans in Yahud, which • Youth activities threatened to demolish dozens of structures On the eve of Israel’s Independence Day, that had been part of the Palestinian town dozens of activists fanned out in Tel Aviv • Lectures to Palestinian groups of Abbasiyah, expressed sympathy for the and sprayed graffiti in locations where 5. Capacity Building objection. She suggested that the City Palestinian villages had stood prior to the • Resource Development Engineer view Zochrot’s reservations, the Nakba. Teams carrying spray cans and stencils went to Summayl, Shaikh Muwannis, cancelled by the municipality’s inspectors. Annual Report 2007 Manshiyya, Abu Kabir, Jamasin al ‘Arabi and Salama, spraying on the walls: “Where do the Zochrot commemorated the 60th 1. Staff refugees from these villages live?” “Where anniversary of the Partition Plan with • Board of Directors • Oversight Committee did the residents of these villages study an installation on Tel Aviv’s Rothschild before 1948?,” etc. Curious passersby asked Boulevard. The installation showed a 2. Landscape and Space questions, and the activity was covered in portion of the “Bridging Memory” project • Tours to destroyed Palestinian villages “Ha-Ir,” the local newspaper. that Zochrot has undertaken together with • Commemorations European partners who are in contact with • Preservation On the 59th anniversary of the Nakba, May a Palestinian organization in . • Activism 15, 2007, Zochrot participated in a joint As part of this project, photgraphs were • Tel Aviv map showing the commemorative project of a number of taken of refugees from the village of Al Ras organizations involving the projection of al Ahmar, and the images were enlarged Palestinian villages images related to the Nakba simultaneously to life-size and placed amid the ruins of 3. Information and Resources in eight different Israeli cities. Zochrot their village, today the site of the moshav • Internet site • Visitors Center was one of the events’ organizers, and Kerem Ben Zimra. These giant photos were • Booklets • Visual materials showed two presentations in Tel Aviv. The displayed on the boulevard and a leaflet • Testimonies • “Sedek” project caught the attention of the media was distributed to passers-by, who showed • Gallery • Zochrot in the media and of hundreds of passersby. Displays at considerable interest in the project. 4. Education three planned locations in Jerusalem were • Teachers groups • Educational kit • Joint project with Mahapach-Taghir • Zochrot Youth • Lecture Series • Lectures to groups • Talks at conferences • Right of Return group • Youth activities • Lectures to Palestinian groups 5. Capacity Building “Where• Resource are the Development refugees of Summayl?” 60th anniversary of the Partition Plan Annual Report 2007

1. Staff • Board of Directors • Oversight Committee 2. Landscape and Space • Tours to destroyed Palestinian villages • Commemorations • Preservation • Activism • Tel Aviv map showing the Tel Aviv map showing Palestinian villages the Palestinian villages 3. Information and Resources Zochrot printed 3000 copies of its Tel Aviv • Internet site • Visitors Center map that shows, superimposed on a regular • Booklets • Visual materials street map of the city, the locations of all • Testimonies • “Sedek” the Palestinian villages that were located prior to 1948 within the current municipal • Gallery • Zochrot in the media boundaries. The map also shows the 4. Education remaining Arab buildings, mostly in the • Teachers groups • Educational kit southern part of the city. “Ha-Ir,” the local • Joint project with Mahapach-Taghir paper, reported on the map’s publication. • Zochrot Youth • Lecture Series There are no plans at present to distribute it • Lectures to groups • Talks at conferences to the general public, but only to those who may be able to make use of it. Zochrot will • Right of Return group conduct a series of tours for target groups • Youth activities and for the public at large, based on the • Lectures to Palestinian groups map. In 2007 we led a tour for photography 5. Capacity Building students in three of the Tel Aviv villages, and • Resource Development we will do so again in 2008. Information and Resources also translated into English. They appear Annual Report 2007 Internet site on the site according to the locations from Zochrot’s internet site is part of its which the speakers were expelled in 1948. 1. Staff information center. It was updated and This year we also prepared a key to locate • Board of Directors • Oversight Committee redesigned in 2007, to reflect Zochrot’s testimonies by category: the witness’ sex, various activities. A total of 170 new pages interviewee name, age, interview location 2. Landscape and Space were added in Hebrew, English and Arabic. and date. A number of interviews were • Tours to destroyed Palestinian villages They include, among other topics, Hebrew conducted in refugee camps in , by • Commemorations and Arabic testimonies of Palestinian Raneen Jeries from Zochrot, and on her • Preservation refugees from eight different locations, and return to Israel she was interrogated by • Activism of two Israeli soldiers who fought in the the Israel Security Agency. All 24 booklets • Tel Aviv map showing the Latrun area in 1967, four video clips, booklets published by Zochrot until the end of 2007 appear on the site as .pdf files. In addition, Palestinian villages describing Palestinian sites from the Nakba, eight articles, two visual presentations, and the site now contains Zochrot’s gallery, 3. Information and Resources 16 articles from the press. The site contains describing the gallery’s activities since it • Internet site • Visitors Center the presentation about the Nakba in Arabic opened in Zochrot’s offices in 2007. • Booklets • Visual materials developed by Zochrot. The English site also • Testimonies • “Sedek” contains a kit for creating an outdoor map of A new segment was added this year: “Who are • Gallery • Zochrot in the media the destroyed localities. Zochrot developed we?,” presenting biographical information 4. Education this map activity for public commemoration about Zochrot’s staff, as well as an article of the Nakba, and has already undertaken it by Norma Musih and Eitan Bronstein, “Why • Teachers groups • Educational kit a number of times. In 2007 the kit was used Zochrot?” An additional new page presents • Joint project with Mahapach-Taghir in three locations in the United States and FAQ’s addressed to Zochrot, with answers, • Zochrot Youth • Lecture Series in England to commemorate , written and edited by Amit Landau, a • Lectures to groups • Talks at conferences and there is interest in using it in Belgium, member of Zochrot, along with others. This • Right of Return group Australia and Holland for the Nakba’s 60th section also includes a 30-page English • Youth activities anniversary. presentation of pictures and text describing Zochrot’s activities. • Lectures to Palestinian groups Testimonies appearing on the web site were 5. Capacity Building transcribed and edited in Arabic; all were The video portion of the site has been • Resource Development translated into Hebrew, and most were updated with new clips: Women’s Nakba Testimonies; Who’s the JNF for?; Remembering Monthly site statistics average entries a day Annual Report 2007 al Kafrayn; and Zochrot in Ramla. The first for 2007: three were created by Raneen Jeries of Jan Feb March April May June 1. Staff Zochrot, and the fourth by Social Television. 1816 3598 3795 2547 1835 2164 • Board of Directors • Oversight Committee The activity reports now include July August Sept Oct Nov Dec 2. Landscape and Space explanations of the context and the 1834 1107 1032 934 995 881 • Tours to destroyed Palestinian villages importance of each activity described. • Commemorations Many people contact the site to receive • Preservation The Information Center on the site now links information and activity updates, to express • Activism to a list of all workshops held by Zochrot support and to object. In 2007, we had 160 • Tel Aviv map showing the since January, 2003. such contacts. Here are two of them (their names have been changed): Palestinian villages “Zochrot in the media” presents 16 new 3. Information and Resources articles in Hebrew and in English, more 1. • Internet site • Visitors Center than half of which have been translated into To whom it may concern, • Booklets • Visual materials English. My name is Moran, and although I’ve heard • Testimonies • “Sedek” and read about Zochrot for some time, up to • Gallery • Zochrot in the media Another section presents Zochrot’s new now I haven’t visited your site. I wept from 4. Education periodical, “Sedek,” including a description excitement when I read about your activities, of the journal, its table of contents and some all you are doing and the hopes you engender • Teachers groups • Educational kit sample pages. in everyone. Thank you! • Joint project with Mahapach-Taghir Please add me to the list of those you send • Zochrot Youth • Lecture Series It is now possible to contribute to Zochrot, activity updates to, including the field trips to • Lectures to groups • Talks at conferences using Israeli credit cards, through “Litrom. the destroyed villages. • Right of Return group com,” which charges a 5% fee for each Thanks again, and keep at it! • Youth activities contribution. 2. • Lectures to Palestinian groups Do you remember only the flight of 5. Capacity Building the Palestinians following the War of • Resource Development Independence? Why don’t you remember the events of 1929 and of 1935? The murder of the documentation, family photographs of Annual Report 2007 family of settlers in the village of Givton, near refugees, mental maps, actual maps, etc. Rehovot? Did Israel start the 1948 war? Or 1. Staff perhaps the Palestinians, led by the Mufti (may This year Zochrot organized and catalogued • Board of Directors • Oversight Committee his name be blotted out), refused to accept the its large photo archive, most of it UN decision? Had the Palestinians accepted documenting our various activities. Some 2. Landscape and Space the partition decision, you wouldn’t have had 700 good photographs are included in a • Tours to destroyed Palestinian villages to remember anything! Isn’t that so? I’d like digital archive, and the best 500 among • Commemorations an answer! Yaacov them have been printed, to preserve • Preservation them, and placed in albums located in the • Activism Visitor Center Information Center library. They have been • Tel Aviv map showing the The Visitor Center has been significantly catalogued by date, location and, for some, updated, both physically and virtually. by photographer. Palestinian villages A plan for a catalogue of the information 3. Information and Resources Zochrot has collected has been developed, Another photo collection was prepared on • Internet site • Visitors Center and a portion of the material was already the basis of the contributions and the work • Booklets • Visual materials catalogued in 2007. of photographer Deborah Bright, Professor • Testimonies • “Sedek” in the Department of Photography at • Gallery • Zochrot in the media Dozens of academic works have been the Rhode Island School of Design. She 4. Education prepared with the assistance of materials and documented the remains of Palestinian contacts Zochrot provided. Ten completed villages in color photographs accessible in • Teachers groups • Educational kit academic works have been given to the Zochrot’s Information Center, and they have • Joint project with Mahapach-Taghir organization. also been used in educational activities • Zochrot Youth • Lecture Series about the Nakba. • Lectures to groups • Talks at conferences Zochrot is trying to collect information • Right of Return group about the Nakba, especially in Hebrew, A third series of digital and printed • Youth activities which is scarce, as well as to encourage photographs was donated by the geographer the creation of new knowledge by field Noga Kadman, a member of Zochrot. The • Lectures to Palestinian groups activity on various topics. This includes collection includes some 200 photographs, 5. Capacity Building the collection of unconventional material catalogued according to the names of the • Resource Development such as photographs, art works, video Palestinian sites that existed until 1948. Photo: Deborah Bright. The Hilton hotel above a Palestinian cemetry, Tel Aviv. 2006. Zochrot’s library has been moved from the photography and architecture”; “Literature Annual Report 2007 conference room into its own larger, more and poetry”; “Refugees and international comfortable space. The library now has a law.” The largest category is “Zionism,” 1. Staff photocopy machine for the use of visitors; with dozens of uncritical books, most of • Board of Directors • Oversight Committee separate shelves for maps, posters and prints; which were donated by Anthea, Zochrot’s a display of artwork; a cabinet with visual supporter. 2. Landscape and Space materials created by Zochrot; and a binder • Tours to destroyed Palestinian villages containing all of Zochrot’s publications. • Commemorations Zochrot’s booklets have been catalogued B o o k l e t s • Preservation according to their year of publication, Zochrot prepares booklets in Hebrew and in • Activism language, number of pages, and accessibility Arabic to accompany its field trips to sites • Tel Aviv map showing the of the printed version. A price list of material connected to the Nakba. Five new booklets for sale is also available. were published in 2007, on Kafrayn, Hittin, Palestinian villages Latrun, al-Ajami (in Jaffa) and al-Maliha. They 3. Information and Resources are larger than previous publications, and • Internet site • Visitors Center present a more varied selection of texts. In • Booklets • Visual materials addition to information about the localities, • Testimonies • “Sedek” there are more articles about people • Gallery • Zochrot in the media active in Zochrot and about others. The 4. Education booklet about the Latrun villages contains a comprehensive article by Eitan Bronstein • Teachers groups • Educational kit describing Zochrot’s many activities, • Joint project with Mahapach-Taghir activities that began there, in Canada Park. • Zochrot Youth • Lecture Series The graphic design of the new booklets has • Lectures to groups • Talks at conferences The library has been greatly expanded, been improved. The publication on Kafrayn • Right of Return group and the books have been catalogued and contains material contributed by a member • Youth activities labeled according to a classification that of Kibbutz Ein Hashofet, a number of whose the staff felt was most appropriate: “Here” members joined the field trip to the remains • Lectures to Palestinian groups – books on the history and geography of of the village. The booklet about Ajami 5. Capacity Building Israel, including the territories occupied focuses on the demolition of buildings in • Resource Development in 1967; “Social and critical theory”; “Art, that Jaffa neighborhood in 2007, as well as briefly describing what happened in Jaffa films organized by “Badil,” an organization Annual Report 2007 during the Nakba. This is Zochrot’s first in Bethlehem. The film was shown at film publication about a neighborhood in an festivals in Haifa, and San Francisco. 1. Staff Arab town, and the first time the historical The “Bridging Memory” project also • Board of Directors • Oversight Committee account has been connected to a current produced a 12 minute film with testimonies struggle, an approach that helps the reader of refugees from al Ras al Ahmar. 2. Landscape and Space understand that the Nakba is not over, but • Tours to destroyed Palestinian villages continues. Nine Zochrot full day tours and other • Commemorations activities were documented on videotape. • Preservation • Activism Visual materials Twenty-seven testimonies of Palestinians • Tel Aviv map showing the Ten different visual presentations were were transcribed and translated. “The prepared, most of them for conferences Story of a Village” collects the testimonies Palestinian villages attended by Zochrot representatives. These of refugees from al Ras al Ahmar, ‘Amka, 3. Information and Resources are used to provide information about Salama and Hittin, organizing them by • Internet site • Visitors Center Zochrot and its activities at conferences and topic. These stories have been included on • Booklets • Visual materials lecture tours in Israel and abroad. Zochrot’s web site, and have been translated • Testimonies • “Sedek” into Arabic by “Badil,” which published them • Gallery • Zochrot in the media in al Majdal. We have finished preparing 4. Education Testimonies an Excel spreadsheet cataloguing all the This year Zochrot collected 47 videotaped taped material we hold in various formats. • Teachers groups • Educational kit testimonies, 20 of them from the Ein el It is divided into three parts: testimonies, • Joint project with Mahapach-Taghir Hilwe refugee camp in Lebanon that were Zochrot events, lectures and conferences. • Zochrot Youth • Lecture Series collected as part of the “Bridging Memory” Each part provides information according to • Lectures to groups • Talks at conferences project dealing with the village of al Ras al various search categories. • Right of Return group Ahmar. • Youth activities Raneen Jeries, who coordinates the project, “ S e d e k ” • Lectures to Palestinian groups also prepared a 14 minute film in which In 2007, Zochrot began publishing “Sedek 5. Capacity Building women tell their stories of the Nakba. The – A journal on the ongoing Nakba” edited • Resource Development film won third prize in a competition of Nakba by Tomer Gardi, in cooperation with Double spread, Sedek, 1st Issue. January 2007 Parhesia and Pardes publishers. The first G a l l e r y Annual Report 2007 issue, 1000 copies, appeared in May. Half In 2007, Zochrot opened an art gallery, under were sold in bookstores and directly to the direction of Norma Musih who also 1. Staff individual purchasers, and half were sent curates the exhibitions. The central open • Board of Directors • Oversight Committee to members of Zochrot, to donors, critics, space in our office was renovated to serve as artists, contributors to the journal and to a gallery. The walls were painted white, and 2. Landscape and Space potential contributors. “Sedek” was met appropriate lighting was installed. The first • Tours to destroyed Palestinian villages with an overwhelmingly positive response. exhibit had its festive opening in May with • Commemorations It was mentioned a number of times in a large turnout and wonderful music. On • Preservation the media, and Zochrot received many display were works by Shlomit Bauman that • Activism enthusiastic emails about the issue. Four dealt with remembering, and forgetting, • Tel Aviv map showing the evening events were held to discuss the the village of al Duwara, which stood on journal and the subjects it addressed. the lands of Kibbutz Amir, where she grew Palestinian villages One dealt with “Parenthood”; a second, at up. The exhibit displayed ceramic screens 3. Information and Resources Barbour in Jerusalem, presented a number on the walls, and an animated movie that • Internet site • Visitors Center of texts that had appeared in the first issue; incorporated film clips from the kibbutz’s • Booklets • Visual materials and a third in ‘Ar’ara – an interesting and early years. The movie had an original • Testimonies • “Sedek” unique attempt to address an Arab audience soundtrack by Ariel Mioduser. The exhibit • Gallery • Zochrot in the media that isn’t Zochrot’s usual target group. In was reviewed in “Ha-Ir” and on Ynet. 4. Education response to the demand, an additional 500 copies of the first issue were printed at the • Teachers groups • Educational kit beginning of 2008. The second issue of • Joint project with Mahapach-Taghir “Sedek” was completed in December, 2007, • Zochrot Youth • Lecture Series and published at the beginning of January, • Lectures to groups • Talks at conferences 2008. • Right of Return group • Youth activities We plan to publish “Sedek” number 3 and number 4 in 2008, and beginning in 2009 • Lectures to Palestinian groups publish three issues each year. 5. Capacity Building • Resource Development The gallery’s second exhibit – “Behold, In 2007, 48 articles dealing with Zochrot Annual Report 2007 behold (that which is) on the wall” - opened appeared in Israel’s Hebrew press, seven in in September. It displayed works by six English and eight in Arabic. These and other 1. Staff photographers that showed what can be articles are available in Zochrot’s library, • Board of Directors • Oversight Committee seen, and what can’t be seen, on the sites of arranged by date. All the articles have been Palestinian villages destroyed in the Nakba. scanned and are available on our computer, 2. Landscape and Space It was also reviewed in “Ha-Ir.” Gallery talks and some also appear on the web sites of • Tours to destroyed Palestinian villages open to the public were organized for each the media in which they were originally • Commemorations of the exhibitions. published. Many of them also appear on • Preservation our web site. Documentation of Zochrot’s • Activism appearance in the media allows us to track • Tel Aviv map showing the Zochrot in the media the discourse about the Nakba and about Zochrot appears in the media, usually on our activity. Palestinian villages the internet, in “Ha’aretz” and in the local 3. Information and Resources press. The mass circulation press, as well Here are two significant articles that appeared • Internet site • Visitors Center as radio and television, still seem to have in 2007. The first is an extremely favorable • Booklets • Visual materials difficulty accepting Zochrot’s message. review of Sedek’s first issue and of Zochrot, by • Testimonies • “Sedek” It’s particularly hard for them to accept Professor Orly Lubin. Lubin writes: “The first • Gallery • Zochrot in the media the fact that an Israeli organization, most issue of “Sedek” made me respond politically in 4. Education of whose active members are Jews, wants a way that I’d forgotten - shock. There’s nothing Jews to know about the Nakba. That in “Sedek” that I didn’t know, but nevertheless • Teachers groups • Educational kit subject is usually presented as a “Palestinian – shock.” Lubin generously praises “Sedek” as • Joint project with Mahapach-Taghir narrative,” and Zochrot wants to crack open a component of Zochrot’s activities, in a long • Zochrot Youth • Lecture Series that dichotomy. We’ve had a number of review which forms a portion of an academic • Lectures to groups • Talks at conferences discussions about whether we should make article that will be published in a book. • Right of Return group a greater effort in order to get better media A second article, by Itamar Inbari, that • Youth activities coverage. We decided that, as of now, appeared on Ma’ariv’s web site, provided an we’re making appropriate efforts, given our extensive review of Zochrot’s fifth anniversary. • Lectures to Palestinian groups limited financial resources. Zochrot usually The 113 responses to the article are evidence 5. Capacity Building approaches various journalists directly, and that we are hard to ignore. • Resource Development they agree to cover our events. 4. Education is the Nakba; history; personal narrative and Annual Report 2007 Teachers groups historical narrative; different ways of looking This is the third year that Zochrot has at one incident from 1948; testimonies; field 1. Staff organized study groups of teachers about tour; the Nakba in literature, refugeehood; • Board of Directors • Oversight Committee the Nakba. Participants include educators, collective memory; the story of a place; primarily secondary school teachers, who the right of return; reconciliation. The 2. Landscape and Space want to learn about the Nakba and think educational kit includes a range of different • Tours to destroyed Palestinian villages about ways of including it in their curriculum. materials, partly based on work that Zochrot • Commemorations The groups operate as workshops, and carried out during its various projects. The • Preservation include lectures and films. They prepare first draft was almost completed by the end • Activism educational materials which form the basis of 2007. We will finish in 2008, design the • Tel Aviv map showing the for the educational kit Zochrot is creating. layout, publish and begin marketing. Palestinian villages In 2007 a group of eight teachers, led by Norma and Tomer Baliti Dagan, met eight Joint project with Mahapach-Taghir 3. Information and Resources times in Tel Aviv. Tomer, a teacher, was Mahapach/Taghir is an organization • Internet site • Visitors Center himself a member of such a group in 2006. working with Jewish and Palestinian • Booklets • Visual materials Toward the end of the year a second group marginalized populations. Zochrot began a • Testimonies • “Sedek” began meeting, in Jerusalem, led by Tomer joint project with them in 2006, in order to • Gallery • Zochrot in the media and by Amaya Galili. That group met three open discussions of the Nakba with groups 4. Education times in 2007. who would not ordinarily be exposed to Zochrot’s activities. Eight meetings were • Teachers groups • Educational kit Educational kit held with Mahapach-Taghir students and • Joint project with Mahapach-Taghir In 2007, Zochrot began to prepare a high activists. They included two field trips to • Zochrot Youth • Lecture Series school educational kit for teaching about remains of the Nakba in south Tel Aviv, trips • Lectures to groups • Talks at conferences the Nakba. Amaya Galili, who directs this to the destroyed villages of Ma’alul and • Right of Return group project, organized a group of about eight Saffuryah, and a tour of A’yn Karim, as well • Youth activities members of Zochrot, together with two as lectures and workshops. The project will continue in 2008. • Lectures to Palestinian groups members of the teachers study groups, who met ten times during the year. The 5. Capacity Building educational kit contains twelve 1½-hour • Resource Development units, covering the following topics: What Z o c h r o t y o u t h a place to learn about subjects related to the Annual Report 2007 Zochrot established a youth group in 2007 Nakba and discuss them with others who whose members meet every three weeks in are interested. Some participants attend 1. Staff Tel Aviv in order to learn about the Nakba. regularly, while others may be newcomers. • Board of Directors • Oversight Committee Three meetings have been held, with an It’s also an opportunity for Zochrot to average of twenty participants aged 20-28. meet people who don’t participate in other 2. Landscape and Space Amaya and Oded Zipory lead the group. It’s activities. • Tours to destroyed Palestinian villages currently a study group, but our intention is • Commemorations to train a cadre of younger activists for the • Preservation organization. Among its participants are • Activism persons who have refused to serve in the • Tel Aviv map showing the army, as well as current and former soldiers. Palestinian villages

3. Information and Resources Lecture Series • Internet site • Visitors Center The discussion evenings held at Zochrot’s • Booklets • Visual materials headquarters are one of the ways for the • Testimonies • “Sedek” organization to encourage the general • Gallery • Zochrot in the media public to become involved in study and 4. Education open discussion of issues connected to the Nakba. Eighteen discussion evenings were • Teachers groups • Educational kit organized in 2007, on various topics, with a • Joint project with Mahapach-Taghir total of 570 participants. Activities included • Zochrot Youth • Lecture Series a lecture by Hassan Jabarin held on the eve Lectures to groups • Lectures to groups • Talks at conferences of Israel’s Independence Day; screening Zochrot is invited to speak to various groups • Right of Return group of “Arus al Jalil”, with its director Bassl from Israel and from abroad. In 2007 • Youth activities Tannous; evenings about “Sedek” in ‘Ar’ara we gave 19 talks to groups from abroad and at Barbour in Jerusalem; Zochrot’s fifth and 25 talks to Israeli groups. Zochrot is • Lectures to Palestinian groups anniversary; and Ilan Pappe talking about particularly interested in appearing before 5. Capacity Building his book, Ethnic Cleansing. The discussion Israeli audiences, while at the same time • Resource Development evenings are important because they provide the great interest by people abroad in our activities gives us an opportunity to talk in a conference in London. Annual Report 2007 to groups who come from other countries. Some of them are connected to Zochrot’s 1. Staff partners, others are political activists or Right of Return group • Board of Directors • Oversight Committee foreign students currently in Israel. Four of In 2005, Zochrot established a study group the talks to foreign groups were given by on the return of the refugees. Composed 2. Landscape and Space Norma Musih during her visit to the United of about twenty academics, activists and • Tours to destroyed Palestinian villages States. members of Zochrot, the group tried to • Commemorations analyze the practical aspects of the return. • Preservation The intention was not to rehash the “right • Activism Talks at conferences of return,” but to take it as a given and a • Tel Aviv map showing the Representatives of Zochrot spoke at nine basis for discussion of what would actually conferences in Israel and abroad. Some of be involved, and how it might be carried Palestinian villages the conferences were academic in nature, out. In 2007 the group was reduced to 3. Information and Resources and others were political. For example, seven persons, most of them members of • Internet site • Visitors Center Eitan Bronstein presented a critical analysis Zochrot. Discussions focused on policy • Booklets • Visual materials of an exhibit at the Herzliyya Museum at paradigms in whose framework the return • Testimonies • “Sedek” a conference on visual culture at Bar Ilan could be considered, including a gathering • Gallery • Zochrot in the media University, and spoke at an anthropological at the ruins of the village of Beit Jibrin, 4. Education conference held at the University of London part of which is now located on the lands about efforts to preserve the Palestinian of Kibbutz Beit Govrin. At the end of the • Teachers groups • Educational kit architectural heritage in Israel. Tomer Gardi year we began active planning for a public • Joint project with Mahapach-Taghir spoke at the Holon Institute of Technology conference on the subject in Tel Aviv during • Zochrot Youth • Lecture Series about his research into the museum his the 60th anniversary of the state of Israel • Lectures to groups • Talks at conferences kibbutz constructed using stones from the and of the Nakba. • Right of Return group destroyed buildings of the village of . • Youth activities Amaya Galili discussed education for peace at a conference in Spain. Tal Dor talked Youth activities • Lectures to Palestinian groups about the Nakba and Zochrot’s activities Zochrot usually doesn’t work directly with 5. Capacity Building at a meeting in Grenoble, . Eitan youth groups or with pupils, but through • Resource Development Bronstein presented the idea of “one state” teachers or leaders of youth groups. Zochrot works directly with such groups Lectures to Palestinian groups Annual Report 2007 only in response to requests from them. Zochrot receives a growing number of Three such activities were held this year, requests for lectures to Arab groups in 1. Staff two in the Jerusalem Bilingual School and Israel. While they are not our main target • Board of Directors • Oversight Committee one in the Manor Kabri high school. The audience, four such events were held in most impressive activity was held in the 2007, organized primarily by Raneen Jeries 2. Landscape and Space Jerusalem Bilingual School, involving study and Umar Ighbarieh. • Tours to destroyed Palestinian villages workshops on Nakba Day, culminating in • Commemorations the pupils’ creating on the school’s grounds • Preservation a map showing the localities destroyed in • Activism the Nakba. This activity was a challenging • Tel Aviv map showing the one for the school and, despite its openness, met with considerable internal opposition. Palestinian villages 3. Information and Resources • Internet site • Visitors Center • Booklets • Visual materials • Testimonies • “Sedek” • Gallery • Zochrot in the media 4. Education • Teachers groups • Educational kit • Joint project with Mahapach-Taghir • Zochrot Youth • Lecture Series • Lectures to groups • Talks at conferences • Right of Return group • Youth activities • Lectures to Palestinian groups 5. Capacity Building • Resource Development Annual Report 2007 Capacity Building C a p a c i t y B u i l d i n g 1. Staff We devoted one day in 2007 to an internal discussion among Zochrot members, led by Nurit • Board of Directors • Oversight Committee Rubin using psychodrama techniques. A second day, led by Ariela Be’eri Ben Yishai, was limited to Zochrot staff. The focus was on relations among Zochrot’s members, their thoughts and their 2. Landscape and Space feelings about what’s going on in the • Tours to destroyed Palestinian villages organization. Eitan Bronstein, the director, also arranged to receive supervision from Tamar • Commemorations Oversky, an organizational consultant from Shatil. With the increase in Zochrot’s budget, a • Preservation number of ideas are being considered to improve how we track expenditures on activities. Esther • Activism Goldenberg developed a form to track cash flow that updates itself daily and tells us what our • Tel Aviv map showing the actual financial condition is. Palestinian villages There have been changes in the composition of the Board of Directors. Some veteran members 3. Information and Resources who have served since Zochrot was founded left the board or attend meetings less frequently. • Internet site • Visitors Center On the other hand, new members joined the Board, giving the organization renewed energy, in • Booklets • Visual materials addition to the paid staff. • Testimonies • “Sedek” • Gallery • Zochrot in the media Resource Development n t 4. Education Financial support for the organization has increased. • Teachers groups • Educational kit Existing contributors, whose support continued in 2007: • Joint project with Mahapach-Taghir Misereor, ICCO, CCFD, Broderlijk Delen, HEKS-EPER, Mennonite Central Committee, • Zochrot Youth • Lecture Series Medico International, KerkinActie, CIMADE, Solidarity, Stichting SIVMO, Stichting • Lectures to groups • Talks at conferences Solidariteitsfonds. • Right of Return group • Youth activities New supporters: • Lectures to Palestinian groups Trocaire, Beate Oestreicher Friendenswerke, ACPP. 5. Capacity Building • Resource Development In 2007, Zochrot received support that totaled €275,000, the majority in contributions from Annual Report 2007 abroad. The NIS equivalent of about €12,500 was received in Israel. Income originating in Israel includes rent subsidies from Mahapach-Taghir and from the Women’s International Commission 1. Staff with whom we share offices; from sales of “Sedek;” from persons attending our lectures; and • Board of Directors • Oversight Committee from general contributions. In 2008 we intend to develop relationships with new contributors abroad in order to increase the number of organizations supporting Zochrot, together with the 2. Landscape and Space expansion of our activities. • Tours to destroyed Palestinian villages • Commemorations • Preservation • Activism • Tel Aviv map showing the Palestinian villages 3. Information and Resources • Internet site • Visitors Center • Booklets • Visual materials • Testimonies • “Sedek” • Gallery • Zochrot in the media 4. Education • Teachers groups • Educational kit • Joint project with Mahapach-Taghir • Zochrot Youth • Lecture Series • Lectures to groups • Talks at conferences • Right of Return group • Youth activities • Lectures to Palestinian groups 5. Capacity Building • Resource Development