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Annual Report 2007 Click on a Name to Get to Segmant 1 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 • Tel Aviv map showing the Zochrot [Remembering] is an Israeli NGO working since 2002 to raise awareness of the Nakba, 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 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 • Gallery • Zochrot in the media 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 Kibbutz 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 Arabic • 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 United States 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 Lifta • 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
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