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Adam Institute
http://www.adaminstitute.org.il
The Adam Institute for Democracy and Peace is a non-profit organization that develops and implements participatory educational projects to teach the basic principles of democracy and the equal rights of every individual. The Adam Institute works with teacher and students, Jews and Arabs.

Adva Center
http://www.adva.org
Adva conducts policy analysis, advocacy work, and public outreach to inform policy makers and the general public in Israel and abroad about equity and social justice issues in Israeli society.

Ahali Center for Community Development
http://www.ahalicenter.org
The Ahali Center is a community-based group promoting grassroots activism among the Palestinian minority in Israel on issues of equality and the fair distribution of national resources.

Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI)
http://www.acri.org.il/english-acri/engine/index.asp
ACRI protects the rights of all individuals in Israel and in the occupied territories through legal action, education and public outreach.

Association of Forty
http://assoc40.org/index_main.html
The Association is a grassroots organization working to establish recognition for unrecognized Arab villages and the promotion of social justice for Arabs in Israel.

B'Tselem
http://www.btselem.org
B'Tselem: The Israeli Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories acts to change Israeli policy in the territories and to ensure that the government protects the human rights of its residents and complies with its obligations under international law.

B'zchut
http://www.bizchut.org.il/english/engframe.html
B'Zchut is a non-profit organization working to advance the rights of all people with disabilities (physical and mental disabilities and mental illness) and their full integration into society.

Galilee Society
http://www.gal-soc.org
The Galilee Society works towards the achievement of equitable health, environmental, and socio-economic conditions and development opportunities for Arab citizens of Israel.

Ittijah: The Union of Arab Community-Based Organizations
http://www.ittijah.org/
Ittijah works to strengthen Palestinian citizens of Israel in its struggle for equality. They help in the creation of a Palestinian civil society and community-based organizations.

Jerusalem Open House
http://www.gay.org.il/joh
The Jerusalem Open House's mission is to make it possible for the city's Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender (GLBT) individuals to live their lives openly and freely, without fear of oppression.

Kav La'Oved, Worker's Hotline
http://www.kavlaoved.org.il/index_en.html
Kav La'Oved is a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting the rights of disadvantaged workers in Israel, primarily: migrant workers, Palestinians from the occupied territories, and new immigrants.

Rabbis for Human Rights
http://www.rhr.israel.net/overview.shtml
Rabbis for Human Rights is a group of Orthodox, Conservative, Reform and Reconstructionist rabbis working on behalf of human rights issues in Israel and in the territories.

World Congress of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Jews
http://www.glbtjews.org
The World Congress is made up of a variety of Jewish groups from around the world. They hold conferences and workshops representing the interests of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Jews.

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Jewish Palestinian Living Room Dialogue Group
http://www.igc.org/traubman/dg-prog.htm
This group is based in San Mateo, CA and has been involved in dialogue work for over 10 years. This web site has many useful tips and advice on forming dialogue groups as well as a collection of information about previous events.

Open Tent
http://www.opentent.org
Open Tent is a coalition of groups and individuals whose mission it is to promote understanding and appreciation of Middle Eastern cultures and their shared values and history. They organize educational and cultural activities and are based out of the Los Angeles-area.

Windows - Channels for Communication
http://www.win-peace.org
Windows was established in 1991 by Jewish and Arab artists and educators living in Israel. Their mission is to promote a meaningful dialogue between Israelis and Palestinians through the use of media, meetings and art. They produce a magazine called Windows, written by Palestinian and Jewish children, and have a Palestinian-Israeli Friendship Center in Tel Aviv.

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Arava Institute for Environmental Studies
http://www.arava.org
The Arava Institute offers Egyptian, Israeli, Jordanian, Palestinian and overseas students an intensive hands-on academic program focusing on their joint environment. The Institute serves as a regional center for conservation and environmental protection activities.

Coalition on the Environment & Jewish Life (COEJL)
http://www.coejl.org
COEJL promotes environmental education, scholarship, advocacy, and action in the American Jewish community.

Friends of the Earth, Middle East (FoEME)
http://www.foeme.org
FoEME is an umbrella organization representing leading Middle East environmental non-governmental organizations. They promote cooperative efforts to protect their shared environmental heritage.

Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel (SPNI)
http://www.spni.org/e/ Site not currently working
SPNI provides education about, and protection of, Israel's nature and environment through educational programs, a network of field schools, trips to all parts of the country and leading environmental battles.

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The Abraham Fund
http://www.abrahamfund.org
The Abraham Fund raises money for coexistence projects between Arabs and Jews living in Israel.

Adalah, the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel
http://www.adalah.org
Adalah means "justice" in Arabic. It is. It is an Arab-run legal center in Israel that serves the Arab community nationwide on legal issues.

Bat Shalom
http://www.batshalom.org
Bat Shalom is a feminist peace organization of Israeli women who work towards a just peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors that includes recognition of a Palestinian state in the territories.

Brit Shalom
http://www.britshalom.org
Brit Shalom is a new Jewish Palestinian group that was founded in Israel. Its broad aims are equality of Israeli citizens and the promotion of cooperation with the Palestinian residents of the territories. The group was founded in March 2001 at the joint Jewish-Arab village of Neve Shalom/Wahat Al-Salam, with over 100 participants - both Jews and Palestinians.

Center for Jewish-Arab Economic Development (CJAED)
http://www.cjaed.org.il
CJAED helps to provide resources and support for organizations engaged in economic development between Arabs and Jews.

Friendship's Way
http://www.frienships-way.org.il
Friendship's Way is a social service agency that works with impoverished and at-risk Jewish and Arab children in Jaffa. They help to provide nutritious meals, proper medical care, tutoring, educational enrichment, and therapy to young children, offering the tools necessary for future successful integration into society.

Givat Haviva
http://www.dialogate.org.il/peace
Givat Haviva is an education and research center based in the Galilee that works on coexistence projects between Jewish and Arab citizens of Israel.

Interns for Peace (IFP)
http://www.internsforpeace.org
IFP trains community development peace workers, in Israel and in the West Bank/Gaza, Jordan and Egypt who initiate joint projects between Jews and Arabs in Israel.

Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam
http://www.nswas.com
Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam is a village in Israel established jointly by Jews and Palestinian Arabs of Israeli citizenship and engaged in educational work for peace, equality and understanding between the two peoples.

Open House
http://www.openhouse.org.il
Open House was founded in 1991 to further peace and coexistence among Israeli Arabs and Jews in the mixed city of Ramle. It sponsors the Center for the Development of the Arab Child and the Center for Jewish-Arab coexistence.

Re'ut-Sadaka (Friendship)
http://www.reut.de
Re'ut-Sadaka is a joint Jewish-Arab Youth Movement for Coexistence and Peace. Re'ut-Sadaka provides Jewish and Arab youth the opportunity to meet, exchange ideas and perspectives and to develop friendships across cultural lines.

Seeds of Peace
http://www.seedsofpeace.org
Seeds of Peace operates a summer camp in Maine for young Israeli and Palestinian teenagers that teaches them about conflict resolution and breaking down the barriers between the two sides.

Shemesh
http://www.shemesh.org
Shemesh means "sun" in Hebrew and was begun by the Arab village of Shaab and the Jewish community of Shorashim in the Galilee. Shemesh is engaged in a number of community projects, including a local summer camps for Arab and Jewish children.

Sikkuy
http://www.sikkuy.org.il/english/home.html
Sikkuy, the Association for the Advancement of Equal Opportunities, is a non-profit organization whose goal is to promote civil society in Israel and improve the status of its Arab citizens.

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Interreligious Coordinating Council in Israel (ICCI)
http://www.icci.co.il
ICCI is an umbrella group of Jewish, Christian and Muslim organizations promoting interreligious and intercultural understanding.

Israel Religious Action Center (IRAC)
http://www.irac.org
IRAC is the public and legal advocacy arm for the Israel Movement for Progressive Judaism. The Center's mission is to advance religious freedom and pluralism, tolerance, social justice and civil liberties in Israel, based on the belief that these values are intrinsic to Judaism.

Leo Baeck Education Center
http://www.leo-baeck.com/en
The Leo Baeck Education Center in Haifa consists of a senior and junior high school, a community center offering social outreach programs, a sports center, a progressive synagogue, and the Lokey International Academy of Jewish Studies, which does programming for visitors from around the world. The Leo Baeck Education Center is an institution of the World Union for Progressive Judaism.

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Adva Center
http://www.adva.org
Adva conducts policy analysis, advocacy work, and public outreach to inform policy makers and the general public in Israel and abroad about equity and social justice issues in Israeli society.

Social Action.com
http://www.socialaction.com
An on-line Jewish magazine dedicated to pursuing justice, building community, and repairing the world.

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Community of Lesbian Feminists in Israel,(CLAF)
http://www.aquanet.co.il/vip/klaf/ inactive or outdated link
CLAF is a grassroots organization that aims to benefit all Israeli lesbians through a combination of advocacy, public education and community development activity.

Haifa Women's Coalition
http://www.haifawomenscoalition.org.il outdated or inactive link
The Haifa Women's Coalition is made up of four organizations working at both the national and local levels to combat forms of violence against women and improving the status of women in general.

Israel Women's Network (IWN)
http://www.iwn.org
IWN is a network of women from all aspects of Israeli society that work against discrimination in the household and the workplace and to improve the status of women in Israel.

Jerusalem Center for Women (JCW)
http://www.j-c-w.org
JCW's main goal is to promote discussion of women's issues and advocate women's rights within Palestinian society. JCW is part of a network of local, regional and international organizations working in human rights and targeting women's issues.

Nisan Young Women Leaders
http://www.nisan.org
Nisan Young Women Leaders develops the leadership potential of Jewish and Arab Israeli young women, and foster communication and cooperative partnerships among them.

Women of the Wall
http://www.womenofthewall.org (Site currently not working)
An organization of Jewish women from the four streams of Judaism who come together at the Western Wall to pray every Rosh Chodesh (new month).

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Department of Foreign Affairs & International Trade
http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/

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Knesset
http://www.knesset.gov.il/knesset/engframe.htm

Ministry of Foreign Affairs
http://www.israel-mfa.gov.il/mfa/home.asp

Prime Minister's Office
http://www.pmo.gov.il/english/

Embassy of Israel (U.S.)
http://www.israelemb.org

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Thomas, Legislative Information on the Internet
http://thomas.loc.gov

U.S. House of Representatives
http://www.house.gov

U.S. Department of State
http://www.state.gov

Department of State, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs
http://www.state.gov/p/nea

U.S. Senate
http://www.senate.gov

White House
http://www.whitehouse.gov

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American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)
http://www.aipac.org
AIPAC is one of the leading American Jewish organizations that lobbies annually for U.S. aid to Israel and other issues of concern that concern the security of the State of Israel.

Americans for Peace Now
http://www.peacenow.org
Americans for Peace Now is committed to achieving an equitable and secure peace for Israel and her neighbors and supports the Peace Now Movement in Israel.

Canada-Israel Committee (CIC)
http://www.cicweb.ca/
CIC is the official representative of the Canadian Jewish community on matters pertaining to the Canada-Israel relationship.

Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC)
http://www.cjc.ca
CJC is a national advocacy group for the Jewish community for both domestic and international concerns.

Hillel — The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life
http://www.hillel.org
Hillel provides opportunities for Jewish students to explore and celebrate their Jewish identity through its global network of over 500 regional centers, campus Foundations and Hillel student organizations.

Israel Policy Forum (IPF)
http://www.israelpolicyforum.org
Israel Policy Forum’s mission is to support active and sustained American efforts aimed at resolving the conflict between Israel and its Arab neighbors. In doing so, IPF seeks to strengthen Israeli security and to further U.S. foreign policy interests in the Middle East. Since its inception in 1993, IPF has been the only independent, mainstream Jewish organization that consistently mobilizes prominent American Jews to deliver a solid message of support for an active American diplomatic role in the Mideast.

Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA)
http://www.jewishpublicaffairs.org
JCPA is a national organization representing local Jewish community relation councils at the national level and addresses both domestic and international concerns of the Jewish community. UAHC is a member of the JCPA.

Jewish Peace Fellowship
http://www.jewishpeacefellowship.org
Jewish Peace Fellowship is a nondenominational organization committed to active nonviolence as a means of resolving conflict. The Middle East is just one area they work on.

Jewish Reconstructionist Federation
http://www.jrf.org
Jewish Reconstructionist Federation is the umbrella organization for Reconstructionst congregations in the United States and Canada.

Meretz USA
http://www.meretzusa.org
Meretz USA engages in educational programs in the American Jewish community about peace in the Middle East as well as supports the work of the Meretz party in Israel.

National Committee for Labor Israel
http://www.laborisrael.org - outdated or inoperable link
The National Committee for Labor Israel promotes awareness about labor issues in Israel as well as raises money for the labor movement in Israel.

New Israel Fund
http://www.newisraelfund.org
The New Israel Fund is a philanthropy that promotes equality, fairness and justice for all of Israel's citizens. It raises money in North America and in Europe to donate to grassroots organizations in Israel working for social change.

United Jewish Communities (UJC)
http://www.ujc.org
Represents the North American Jewish Federations.

US/Israel Women to Women
http://www.usisraelwomen.org/homepage.htm (non-working link)
US/Israel Women to Women provides seed money for grassroots efforts in Israel which advocate equal status and fair treatment for both Arab and Jewish women in all spheres of Israeli life.

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Ariga
http://www.ariga.com
A collection of news articles, information, and background material about the Middle East peace process.

bitterlemons
http://www.bitterlemons.org
bitterlemons.org is a website that presents Israeli and Palestinian viewpoints on prominent issues of concern. It focuses on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and peace process, but other, related regional issues are also discussed. Readers can obtain a free subscription by writing to bitterlemons@bitterlemons.org.

Bustan L'Shalom
http://www.bustanlshalom.org
Bustan L’shalom (Peace Groves) is a grass roots group of Israeli Jews and Arabs and Jews. They engage in a number of activities to help promote coexistence, equality and justice. These include prayer vigils, workshops, and service support to impoverished Bedouin communities.

Center for Middle East Peace & Economic Cooperation
http://www.centerpeace.org
The Center brings Middle Eastern policy makers, American government officials, and international business leaders together to provide an atmosphere that encourages a peaceful resolution to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Their activities include diplomatic exchanges, and conferences featuring Middle Eastern and American leaders seeking peace.

Foundation for Middle East Peace
http://www.fmep.org
The Foundation for Middle East Peace is a non-profit dedicated to informing Americans about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It publishes a bimonthly settlement report that provides up-to-date information on Israel's settlement policies.

Hope Flowers School
http://www.mideastweb.org/HopeFlowers/
The Hope Flowers School is a Palestinian school located in Bethlehem and is dedicated to education for coexistence, peace, non-violence and democracy. They also participate in educational workshops between Palestinian and Israeli teachers.

International Forum for Peace and Culture(IFLAC)
http://tx.technion.ac.il/~ada/iflac.htm
IFLAC’s goal is to help build a peaceful Middle East through literature, culture and art. Branches exist all over the world. They sponsor international conferences, cultural festivals, literary readings, workshops, and lectures

Israel-Palestine Center for Research and Information
http://www.ipcri.org
IPCRI, founded in Jerusalem in 1988, is a joint Palestinian-Israeli public policy think-tank. It is devoted to developing practical solutions for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Meimad
http://www.meimad.org.il
Meimad is an Orthodox group in Israel that supports the peace process and a democratic state.

Oz V'shalom — Netivot Shalom
http://www.ariga.com/ozveshalom/index.asp
A religious Zionist peace organization.

Parent's Circle, the Association of Bereaved Families in the Middle East
http://www.parentscircle.israel.net
The Parent's Circle is an organization of parents who have lost children to violence, both on the Israeli and Palestinian sides. This organization advocates for a return to peace negotiations to end this circle of violence.

Peres Center for Peace
http://www.peres-center.org
The Peres Center for Peace is a non-governmental organization dedicated to the promotion of peace in the Middle East. It implements joint projects with regional and international partners that advance socio-economic cooperation and people-to-people relations.

Search for Common Ground (SCG)
http://www.sfcg.org
SCG is a non-profit organization working on conflict resolution around the world, including the Middle East.

Search for Common Ground News Service/Middle East
http://www.sfcg.org/cgnews/middle-east.cfm
Common Ground News Service / Middle East provides news, op-eds, cartoons, features, and analysis by local and international experts on a broad range of Middle East issues.

Shalom Achshav (Peace Now)
http://www.peacenow.org.il/English.asp
Peace Now is a grassroots movement in Israel, founded in 1978, that urges the Israeli government to seek peace — through negotiations and mutual compromise — with Israel's Arab neighbors.

Wi'am: Palestinian Conflict Resolution Center
http://www.planet.edu/~alaslah
Wi'am works in the greater Bethlehem community to build a democratic and just society. The Center aims to improve the quality of relationships by: addressing injustices; dignifying persons on both sides of the conflict; promoting human rights and advocating for peace among all people.

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Dogpile
http://www.dogpile.com

Excite
http://www.excite.com

Google
http://www.google.com

Jewish.com
http://www.jewish.com

Maven
http://www.maven.co.il
Jewish search engine

Metacrawler
http://www.metacrawler.com

Shamash
http://shamash.org
Jewish search engine, host of email lists.

Slider
http://www.slider.com

Yahoo
http://www.yahoo.com

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Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies
http://www.biu.ac.il/Besa
The Begin-Sadat Center at Bar Ilan University is dedicated to the study of Middle East peace and security, in particular the national security and foreign policy of Israel.

Center for Bedouin Studies & Development
http://www.bgu.ac.il/bedouin
Located at Ben Gurion University in the Negev, the center is a resource for academic research on Bedouin society applies the University's academic expertise to the educational, social, health and community development needs of the Negev Bedouin population.

Dayan Center for Middle East and African Studies
http://www.dayan.org
The Dayan Center at Tel Aviv University seeks to contribute to the study and understanding of the modern history and current affairs of the Middle East and Africa.

Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace
http://truman.huji.ac.il
The Truman Institute, located at Hebrew University, is dedicated to fostering peace and advancing cooperation in the Middle East and among the peoples of the world through research, the sponsorship of conferences, seminars, and colloquiums.

Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies
http://www.tau.ac.il/jcss
The Jaffee Center at Tel Aviv University conducts basic research on matters related to Israel's national security as well as Middle East regional and international security affairs.

Middle East Institute
http://www.mideasti.org
A Washington-based think tank, it publishes the Middle East Journal.

Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research
http://www.tau.ac.il/peace
The Steinmetz Center, located at Tel Aviv University, does monthly polling of the Israeli public related to the Middle East peace process.

Washington Institute for Near East Policy
http://www.washingtoninstitute.org
The Washington Institute is a public educational foundation dedicated to research and debate on U.S. interests in the Middle East.