SHATIL provides professional services to over 25 coalitions and forums in Israel in a variety of areas including equality, social and human rights, education, environmental justice, and religious pluralism. Bringing together organizations to pursue a shared goal, these coalitions and forums create a pool of expertise, experience, skills, contacts and power that enable more effective activism towards a common end. SHATIL 's services range from initiating and coordinating coalitions to providing professional consulting and guidance in areas such as advocacy, media, and public relations. While coalitions are stronger for their multiple members than just a single organization acting on its own, they are also more complex requiring expertise on the part of SHATIL in fields such as negotiations and conflict resolution. SHATIL 's work with coalitions over the past two and a half decades has yielded numerous achievements including notable successes such as the enactment of the Freedom of Information Law and the Public Housing Law , and the opening of over 1,000 new public preschool classes for the Arab Israeli community.