The activity in the KKL-JNF Heritage Center in Nof HaGalil (Nazareth Illit), which was inaugurated in March 2018, includes academic reinforcement for 10th-12th grade students to improve their matriculation scores. The studies take place in small classes with professional teachers, and personal guidance by mentors. The Center both promotes informal education in the city and organizes social activities, enrichment lectures, and activities to reinforce values and increase community involvement.
The Northern District Attorney's Office (civil) began operating in February 2018, thereby completing the process of establishing separate and independent civil state attorney's offices in every district, and giving expression to the great importance that the Justice Ministry and Office of the State Attorney attach to the strengthening of the periphery in general and the north in particular.
The Civil Attorney's Office is responsible for dealing with diverse issues, including real estate, planning and construction, employment, personal status, torts and taxes, and operates through proactive, combined and financial enforcement to eradicate crime and corruption through the use of effective civil and administrative tools (closing businesses, imposing fines, etc.).
Within the framework of the Attorneys' Program, the attorneys of the region had four volunteer meetings at the KKL-JNF Heritage Center in Nof HaGalil (Nazareth Illit). The culminating event of the program was the fifth meeting, which took place in the city's judicial complex, and included a tour, training, entry to courtroom hearings and a meeting with judges.
The program exposed the youth to various disciplines in the realm of the law through lectures, open discussions, games and simulations, which helped them examine real-life dilemmas in light of their own experiences. The issues that were conveyed to the youth as part of the meetings with the attorneys were the Good Samaritan Law, freedom of speech, equal opportunity, affirmative action, cyber-bullying and more.
Attorney Pninit Naveh of the Northern District Attorney's Office (civil) led the program. She told the youth at the beginning of the first meeting that "one of the goals of the program is to give you the ability and opportunity to examine issues from various perspectives. Towards that end, you will be exposed to conflicts and interests, you will make decisions after investigating the facts, thinking, deliberating, criticizing and being aided by various tools that you know and other new ones that you will acquire.
"The program will help you strengthen independent thinking, form positions that are not based on stereotypes, listen and show empathy and tolerance for opinions and voices other than your own and help resolve conflicts in a respectful way. You will likewise learn important things that will help you understand, deepen and reinforce your identity in a democratic country. I invite you to present to the moderators, who will change every week and who are all lawyers, questions about the attorney's office and the areas it deals with, about the attorney's profession, the study of law, and any other subject from the realm of law that you would like to learn and get to know."
KKL-JNF hopes that following this initial project, follow-up meetings will be held with students at the KKL-JNF Heritage Center in Nof HaGalil (Nazareth Illit), and in additional KKL-JNF Heritage Centers that will be established around the country in the future.
KKL-JNF hopes that this project will be the first of many and that follow-up meetings will be held with students at the KKL-JNF Heritage Center in Nof HaGalil (Nazareth Illit), and in additional KKL-JNF Heritage Centers that will be established around the country in the future.