The Sir Charles Clore Jewish-Arab Community Center

The Charles Clore Jewish Arab Community Center's mission is to provide high-quality, low-cost educational, cultural and recreational activities to the residents of Acre who cannot access these services elsewhere for reasons of language or inability to pay.

The Center is in the heart of the mainly Arab Wolfson neighborhood of the new city of Acre. It provides low-cost child care (in Arabic) to mainly Arab, but also Jewish children under three allowing mothers to work. Activities for hundreds of children run six days a week after school and include educational enrichment, cultural and recreational programming. A new youth program is being developed to strengthen local Arab youth, putting them on a par with their Jewish counterparts with a longer term view to joint activities ( joint programming for youth is critical to counter ignorance and build respect, understanding and tolerance for the 'other'). Women's activities focus on empowerment and education in areas such as nutrition, child-rearing in the 21^st Century and knowing their rights under the law.

All are welcome at the Center and subsidies are given as necessary.