Heinrich Böll Foundation

Heinrich Böll Stiftung Israel

The coastline of Tel Aviv. Photo: Maud Meinel

The Heinrich Boell Stiftung (HBS) is the German green foundation affiliated with the German Green Party. We are a non-profit organization striving to promote environmental justice and sustainable development, civil society, equality, women's rights and gender democracy internationally. With headquarters in Berlin, Germany, the HBS has 28 offices worldwide and cooperates with over 200 partners in more than 60 countries.

The website of the Israel office is divided into our four program areas as well as publications, information on our project partners and our grant application guidelines along with a spotlight on our news and events. You are invited to visit often for further updates and please feel free to contact us should you have any questions or comments.

Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development

Study

Gender Relations and Women’s Vulnerability to Climate Change

May 17, 2012 - The study analyzes the way in which an adaptation measure carried out in the Mexican state of Tabasco has contributed to modifying gender relations. In the relocation program analyzed, implemented in response to severe flooding in 2007, the housing units built were granted to women. Jenny Jungehülsing more»

Study Tour

Innovations for Ecological Change

- May 8, 2012 -

This week the Heinrich Böll Foundation Israel is taking an Israeli delegation on a Green Economy Study Tour to Germany. The common goal is to learn about new ways to green economic growth and sustainable development.

Artikel

European Climate Leadership – Durban and Beyond

- May 6, 2012 - Can Europe assert leadership on climate change in light of its myriad problems? The EU was key in shaping the outcome of the last UNFCCC negotiations, the so-called Durban Platform. This paper analyzes the prospects for Europe to continue to act as a driving force towards a greener planet, both at home and abroad. Hans JH Verolme more»

German-Israeli and EU-Israeli Relations

Conference Report

A Forgotten and Oppressed Story

May 17, 2012 -
On May 11th, 2012 the Heinrich Böll Foundation and Mossawa Center organized a seminar, public discussion based on the release of the book, "Haifa Before and After1948:Narratives of aMixed City,” published by the Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation. Here is the report on the event.

Marianne Zepp more»

Conference Report

Estranged Friends? - Israeli and German Perceptions of State, Nation, Force

- April 8, 2012 - Over 400 people came to find out more about the German-Israel relations. The Heinrich Boell Foundation was hosting a conference dealing with the idea of the nation state, the approach towards military violence and multiculturalism in both countries. German and Israeli experts were exploring what unites and what divides the two countries and how the relations will develop in the future. Marianne Zepp more»

Conference Report

Transnational Migration and Multiculturalism. The Case of Israel, Germany and Europe.

- January 17, 2012 - The Conference on Transnational Migration and Multiculturalism (The Case of Israel, Germany and Europe) Transnational Migration and Multiculturalism, which took place on the 28th and 29th of November 2011, was conducted in cooperation with the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem and the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Israel and dealt with the interrelations between nation state, immigration and the perception of multiculturalism in both countries. Marianne Zepp more»

Publications

Policy Paper

Angst or Arithmetic? Why Germans are so Skeptical about Nuclear Energy

May 17, 2012 - Is it hysteria or emotional populism that Germany has decided to phase out nuclear energy? On the contrary, a majority of Germans has been unconvinced of its merits since the early 1980s; the source of this anti-atom consensus lies in the persuasive, fact-based arguments of a powerful, grassroots social movement. Paul Hockenos more»

Executive Summary and Publication

Solidarity and strength: The Future of the European Union

- December 13, 2011 - Economic and environmental challenges that threaten to overwhelm the European project. The Heinrich Böll Foundation has set up a commission to examine the future of the EU. This publication puts forward a series of proposals in areas such as foreign and security; agricultural; energy; economics and monetary and enlargement policy. more»

Publication

Severe Housing Distress and Destruction of Arab Homes: Obstacles and Recommendations for Change

- April 9, 2012 - Publication on severe housing distress and destruction of arab homes by Kais Nasser published by Dirasat - Arab Center for Law and Policy and supported by the Heinrich Böll Stiftung Israel. The full version of the Hebrew text (90 pages, PDF-file, 3.20 MB). The English summary is also available (17 paged, PDF-file, 2.44 MB).
Haaretz reports on the paper in English (29.03.2012) and Hebrew (31.03.2012).

Women's Rights and Gender Democracy

Position Paper

Ecclesiastical Courts in Israel - A Gender-responsive Perspective

April 2, 2012 -

This paper discusses the Ecclesiastical courts in Israel, including their laws, proceedings and legal procedures, from a gender-responsive perspective. The analysis presented draws on the experiences of women who have filed for divorce, separation, or dissolution/ annulment of marriage in these courts. The paper examines and compares divorce, separation and dissolution/ annulment proceedings heard in the courts of the three largest Christian communities in Israel: Greek Orthodox, Melkite/ Greek Catholic, and the Latin Community.

Publication Series Ecology, Volume 21

The Future We Want - A Feminist Perspective

- March 16, 2012 - The Future We Want – the motto chosen by the UN in the run-up to the June 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) – is certainly forward-looking. Rio+20 is supposed to define routes towards a safer, fairer, greener, and cleaner world. But the blueprints for a green economy are devoid of gender perspectives. Christa Wichterich’s essay takes a closer look on the relations between feminism and ecology. more»

Report

Women and Pollution

- March 16, 2012 -

Groundbreaking research on Women and Pollution in Israel by Coalition for Public Health - Ella Nave (Hebrew, PDF, 88 pages, 2.80 MB)

Civil Society and Democratic Participation

Policy Paper

International Security Guarantees on the Way to a Permanent Agreement on a Two-State-Solution Israel / Palestine

March 22, 2012 - From mid-2010 to mid-2011 a working group of Israeli and Palestinian security experts developed concrete proposals and practical steps for international security guarantees in the case of a two state solution between Israel and Palestine. This work was undertaken at the invitation of the Heinrich Böll Stiftung. The group presents their recommendations at several events in Berlin, Brussels and Washington, DC. Core Group more»

Letter

German political foundations write joint letter to Members of Knesset on NGO funding bills

- November 20, 2011 - The political foundations from the Federal Republic of Germany in Israel express concern about a series of legislative initiatives that would fundamentally change civil society involvement overall. more»

opinion

Male Warfare, Female Welfare

- August 31, 2011 - When Daphni Leef says that we are talking about homes and Bibi Netanyahu is talking about real estate, when teachers who oppose the latest reform say that education is not a business, when physicians are calling out to save the future of public health care, they are all calling to remove public services from the jurisdictional realm of business logic. Guy Shani more»

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