Conferences & Events:   29.11-2.12.2005 Peace of Art – Piece of Art: Report of a preparatory visit From the 29th November until the 2nd December a German delegation called Peace of Art from Kiel visited Israel to get in contact with the local art scene. Read more... 30.11.2005, 16:30-19:00 Silent Witnesses - Women in the second Intifada Conference,  Cinematequ Tel Aviv, Shprintzach 2 Isha Le Isha - Haifa Feminist Center Download the invitation here  21.11.2005, 17:30-20:00 Women and Taxation Conference,  Beit Sokolov, 4 Kaplan Str., Tel Aviv The Adva Center annual conference At this 4th Adva Annual Conference in cooperation with the Heinrich Boell Foundation on Budgets and Gender invited speakers include Ms. Fran Bennett, Senior Research Associate, Department of Social Policy and Social Work, Oxford University, England; and Dr.Adi Brender, Head of Public Sector Area, Research Department, Bank of Israel For more informaion http://www.adva.org/ Download the invitation here 17.11.2005 Between Land Day and Earth Day: On the Space Between Concensus and Conflict, Redefining the Public Sphere Lecture, Dr. Jeremy Bernstein Eltafula Center, Nazerath 19-25.10.2005 Nazareth Festival: The days of Mossawa will be held in Nazareth Numerous embassadors and members of the diplomatic corps as well as politicians from Israel and the general public have announced their visit to discuss, learn about and celebrate with the palestinian minority in Israel. We congratulate our long standing partner Mossawa - Advocacy Center for Palestinian Equality in Israel to the organisation of this event. download program (pdf, 1MB) 25.09.2005 Water Justice: Water as a Human Right in Israel Seminar Ha’Kibbuzim College Invitation (PDF) 08.09 - 10.09.2005 Femme Global - Gender Perspectives in the 21st century Conference,  Beit Sokolov, 4 Kaplan Str., Tel Aviv The Adva Center annual conference link...  invitation... 01.09 - 07.09.2005 Engendering Economic Policies in a Globalising World International Summer School, Berlin link... 12.08-16.08.2005 Womens Struggle against Occupation and War International Conference, Jerusalem Women in Black 21.07.2005 Knesset passed law requiring that peace negotiating teams include women. Isha L’Isha-Haifa Feminist Center called the law a “major milestone in the advancement of women’s rights in Israel.” Members of the group, which believe that female voices can help bring peace, helped organize support for the legislation. read new article... read press release... 09-11.06.2005 4th Activism Festival This year the festival is held in the Mixed City of Lod. more ... "Mafateeh" (Keys) 28.06.2005 Documentry film showing, Coffeshop/theatre Tammuz in Haifa Invitation (MSWord, Arabic) Effects of the International Trade Agreements on Women (GATS) 28.06.2005 Follow Up Meeting, Knesset Adva Center and MK Etti Livni, Committee for the Promotion of the Status of Women Israeli and German Authors in Dialogue 22-28.06.2005 Every evening, young renowned authors from Germany and Israel will read from their latest publications, followed by a discussion. The audience is welcome to join the dialogue.  For invitation (Hebrew and English) click here. Tools to empower and develop housing projects in Arab towns 14.6.2005 Workshop, Nazareth more... 4th Activism Festival 09-11.06.2005 This year the festival is held in the Mixed City of Lod. March of protest and support - Laqiya 01.06.2005 On Thursday, the 19th of May, 2005, the Center of The Association for the Improvement of the Status of Women: Laqiya was set on fire. We ask you to come to the village and join us in a march of protest and support that will start at the Association Center in the village of Laqiya and will continue to the local Municipality Building, on Wednesday, the 25th of May, 2005 at 17:00. For more information click here. Letter of Protest and Call for Support The Role of International Public Law in a Globalized World 26.05.2005 Lecture, Prof. Ulrich K. Preuss, Free University of Berlin. The lecture will be held on Thursday, May 26th 2005 at the Michllala Leminhal campus. 7 Rabin Rd., Rishon Letzion, building A (the Law School) room 203. For invitation (Hebrew) click here. The Arabs in Israel - Status, Opportunity and Challenges for Israeli-Palestinian Peace 25.05.2005 Conference,  the European Parliament in Brussels,  For more information click here.   Patterns of Media Consumption and Perceptions on Media Reliability in Arab Society in Israel 01.02.2005 Presentation of research data Cinemathek Nazareth, Israel For more information click here. The German Green Youth visit Israel in May

11.05-21.05.2005
A delegation from the German Green Youth (GAJB) will visit Israel for ten days from the 12th until the 22nd of May 2005. The 10 delegates from age 18 to 28 want to deepen their knowledge about Israeli society, history and environmental issues and to contact several political organisations. The Green Youth is the federal youth organization of the German Green Party (Alliance 90/The Greens). It was founded in January 1994 and numbers today nearly 5.600 members. The Green Youth is a social, ecological, non-violent and grassroots democratic group. Our agenda is based on numerous issues:  gender equality, renewable energies and the anti-nuclear movement. We believe that all conflicts should be solved peacefully and strongly oppose violence. Furthermore the Green Youth looks critically at the current impact of globalization.    

The Green Youth has visited Israel already once five years ago. Now they plan to revive their commitment to an exchange of ideas with young Israelis to, eventually leading to a permanent exchange program. ConAct ( http://www.conact-org.de/ ) and the Heinrich Boell Foundation , Israel office ( http://www.boell.org.il/ ) support the visit.  

The program will be as follows: 4 days in Haifa, Nazareth and upper Galilee in cooperation with the student organisation Cegas (The Committee for Educational Guidance for Arab Students) in order to learn about Israeli society from the perspective of young Arab-Israelis and their organisations.. The program includes meetings with associations working in social, cultural, political, environmental and human right issues depicting the life of the Palestinian Arab minority in Israel.

In the second part of the journey the group visits Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. They will see Yad Va’Shem and they will meet there with Holocaust survivors.    
Planned are furthermore: meetings with social organizations, environmental NGOs, political organizations like Yachad Youth, New Profile, Machsom Watch and a visit in the Knesset including a meeting with Member of Knesset.

Marianne Tritz and Fritz Kuhn

30.04. - 02.05.2005

From April 30th until the May 2nd, a delegation of German Green Parliamentarians is visiting Israel.
MoP Fritz Kuhn, Spokesperson on Foreign Policy of the Greens in the Bundestag and MoP Marianne Tritz, Member of the Council on Foreign Affairs at the Bundestag are visiting on occasion of the 40th anniversary of German-Israeli diplomatic relations.
The purpose of their visit is to be updated on current developments within Israeli society and politics. They will meet with environmentalist, writers, members of social change organisations and Palestinian Israeli organisations.
Mr Kuhn and Ms Tritz will be in extensive exchange with members of Knesset and the Government. They will visit Yad Vashem and its newly opened museum.
After their visit to Israel they will continue their travels to the Palestinian territories and the region.
For more information please contact the office.

           

Thilo Hoppe, Member of German Bundestag, Visit to Israel

02.03. - 06.03.2005

Following an invitation by the Heinrich Boell Foundation Israel and Friends of the Earth Middle East, Mr. Thilo Hoppe will visit Israel and the Palestinian Territories to broaden his knowledge on the subject of Waste Water Treatment in the region. Visits are planned in Salfit, Emek Hefer and Tul Karem for an introduction to sewage treatment problems. Furthermore, Mr. Hoppe will meet with the Israeli Water Commissioner, representatives of the Foreign Ministry, Israeli Military Officials as well as representatives of the Water Authority in Ramallah.

Further Information:
Heinrich Boell Foundation, Phone 03-5167734/5