Over the past several years, the Youth Wing has engaged in a series of projects intended to ultise the Museum's focus on artistic creativity in order to stimulate coexistence among Israel's distinct communities and to ameliorate the social challenges of political conflicts.

For the year ahead, the Museum proposes a project involving students and families from the Arab town of Umm Al-Fahm in the north of Israel. The project will being students and families form Umm al-Fahm to the Museum's campus in Jerusalem. During the course of one year, around 3,000 students will come to the Youth Wind for a guided tour and workshop. They will continue for a visit in Jerusalem that will expose them to its richness as a cultural venue for all of Israel's populations. Teachers form the Youth Wing will then go to Umm al-Fahm to develop, with participants, a public art garden for the benefit of the local community there. The whole process will be documented in a form that can be shared worldwide with other museums. It will also be available on the Museum's website. Three initial meetings have already taken place with the director of the Art Gallery of Umm al-Fahm, with officials of the local municipal government, and with principals and teachers in three major schools. During each of these visits, Museum staff witnessed a significant degree of openness to the project and to its rich potential for creative communal interaction.

We are looking for support for transportation for the school children of Umm al-Fahm to the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. The estimated cost for 60 busses at $500 per bus is $30,000.

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