The recent Pew Research Survey demonstrates a startling gap between Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel. From the prospects for peace to the nature of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state, the survey demonstrated significant gaps in how Israel’s majority and most significant minority view the most important issues affecting their personal lives and how they experience their own society.
But there are thousands of Israelis who are working to change this reality and bring Jews and Palestinians together to build a truly shared society. The New Israel Fund, the leading organization advancing democracy and equality in Israel, is sponsoring a series of programs in spring 2016 featuring Israeli and American experts on shared society from a variety of perspectives. Because as in-depth as the Pew survey is, it doesn’t tell us why Israeli society has become so fractured – and what can be done to fix it.
- What is “shared society”? Read more
- What does NIF do to advance shared society in Israel? Read more
- What does the Pew Research Survey say? Read more
- Where are they speaking? (See Below)
Shared Paths, Divergent Courses: Zionism and Palestinian Nationalism
Sunday, April 17
11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern
Online via web broadcast
April 1 — San Francisco
April 8 — New York
April 13 — Chicago
April 16 — Nation-wide webcast
May 15 — Seattle
May 16 — San Francisco
May 17 — Twin Cities
May 18 — Chicago
May 20 — Washington, DC
May 22 — Boston
June 7 — Atlanta
June 9 — Philadelphia