On February 4, 2009 Peace Child Israel and its partners held the School Principals Conference: "Myself and Arab-Jewish Cooperation in Light of the Difficulty" in Haifa.
The session was facilitated by Khalil Sbeit and Yitzhak Mendelsson.
Amin Fares, an economist with Mossawa, an Israeli Arab Rights Group, found that the Arab sector was allocated 7.6% of the government development budget in 2008 (NIS 994 million out of 2.4 billion) but that only NIS 420 million was actually spent.