House in Israel

The Centre for Humanistic Education (CHE) within the museum of Ghetto Fighters’ House (GFH) in Israel, engages high-school students and teachers from the Arab and Jewish sectors in an examination of connections between the Holocaust; personal and social morals; and implications for present Israeli society. Its action can be related to several domains: history of the Holocaust; moral education; civic education; and peace-education through intergroup dialogue. Livne, CHE pedagogical director since its beginning, categorizes and characterizes these subjects as follows: CHE engages in three subjects: the Holocaust as a universal formative crisis; humanistic social and political values, manifested in the concept of democracy; Jewish-Arab dialogue as a leverage to social and political coexistence. Since 1997 CHE has been working regularly with about 25 Jewish and Arab schools. With groups numbering an average of 15 participants, the project has been engaging about 350 participants annually. The educational process progresses in three sequential stages