MERCHAVIM’s mission is to help Israel’s 7.15 million citizens to live together better by learning about each other, valuing diversity, developing a shared civic awareness and cooperating to make their classrooms, communities and Israeli society as a whole, fairer and more cohesive. MERCHAVIM’s innovative and consensual approach, developed over nearly a decade by Israelis of all backgrounds, employs five core concepts: identity, access, fairness, spaces of agreement and active shared citizenship.