Support of Courses about Jewish-Arab Relations

The Walter Lebach Institute for Jewish-Arab Coexistence through Education organized and supported the following Academic courses:

1. Jewish-Arab relations in the state of Israel

2. The Jewish-Arab Conflict  and Theories of Inter - group Conflict - A Workshop

1.  Jewish-Arab relations in the state of Israel.

This course was taught by Dr. Amal Jamal, Department of Political Science and Prof. Daniel Bar-Tal, School of Education during the academic year of 2004-2005. The course brought together Master's and Doctoral students from many departments of Tel Aviv University. In total 52 students participated in the course, which analyzed the relations between Jews and Arabs in the State of Israel from various aspects. The course introduced the historical backgrounds, discussed the psychological foundations of Jewish-Arab relations and focused on five major areas of these relations: education, politics, law, mass media, and land policies. Finally, it presented the dilemmas and the solutions that both communities encounter in their attempts to construct equal and fair relations.
More than just in content, the course was also unique in the way that it was structured. Typically, each week two different guest lecturers, one Arab and one Jewish, were invited to speak in the first part of the class. Later, after they had each presented their perspective on their field of expertise related to Arab-Jewish relations, they remained to answer questions from students, and to respond to each other's different perspectives. In the last part of each class, a discussion was led by Prof. Bar-Tal and Dr. Jamal, about the topics instigated through the guest lecturers' talk.
The following academic experts took part in the course, as part of the format described above:

• Dr. Adel Manna, Van Leer Research Institute, Jerusalem
• Dr. Rasem Khameyseh, Haifa University
• Hassan Jabareen, Adv., Tel Aviv University
• Dr. Ilana Kofman, Open University
• Dr. Aviva Halamish, Open University
• Prof. Yoav Peled, Tel Aviv University
• Dr. Mustafa Kabha, Open University
• Dr. David Tal, Tel Aviv University
• Dr. Hunaida Ghanim, Hebrew University
• Dr. Ze'ev Shavit, Open University
• Prof. Ramzi Souleiman, Haifa University
• Dr. Michael Sofer, Bar-Ilan University
• Dr. Sarah Ozacky-Lazar, Hebrew University
• Dr. Khaled Abu Asbah, Massar Institute for Research Plan
• Prof. Yitzhak Kashti, Tel Aviv University
• Dr. Yousef Jabareen, Tel Aviv University
• Dr. Eli Avraham, Haifa University

A similar course had been taught in the academic year of 2002-2003 by Prof. Nadim Rouhana, Department of Sociology and Prof Daniel Bar-Tal, School of Education. A new course of similar format and purposes will open in the academic year of 2006-2007.

2. The Jewish-Arab Conflict  and Theories of Inter-group Conflict-A Workshop

The Walter Lebach Institute for Jewish-Arab Coexistence through Education participated in the funding of this workshop, which is a joint endeavor of the Psychology Department at Tel-Aviv University and the School for Peace at Neve-Shalom, Whahat al Salam. The workshop brings together Jewish and Arab MA students, who engage in a dialogue on the relations between the Arab minority and Jewish majority in Israel,
 

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