Galilee Foundation for Value Education

The Galilee Foundation for Value Education develops and executes programming in three main areas: Jewish-Arab cooperation, Jewish pluralism, and Israel-Diaspora relations. The foundation works with youth and adults, in a range of activities including the arts, leadership training, direct encounter, and community building. Its work is based on two fundamental beliefs:

• A vision of Zionism as an effort to create a Jewish state that is a "light unto the nations," a society that "knows the heart of the stranger," and therefore enables persons and groups representing a wide range of ethnic and national identities and religious and ideological commitments to live together in harmony.
• The foundation's staff believes that educational activities are not only a reflection and perpetuation of existing social realities, but can be a formative influence, playing a role in changing individuals and thereby in "changing the social order."

The assumption underlying the foundation's work is that the Galilee as a region, with its unique combination of human and natural resources, can serve as a laboratory and demonstration site for realizing a vision of a society based on inter-group harmony and cooperation.