The Association for the Commemoration of Bat-Chen Shahak

The association’s goals : Promoting peace – encouraging meetings between Arabs and Jews, nurturing dialogue and rejecting violence. Fostering literacy through educational endeavors in creative writing. Each year, on Bat-Chen’s birthday, the association holds an evening at which Bat-Chen Shahak grants are distributed. They are awarded to people who were involved in one of two fields – co-existence, or literacy. Our association has published and translated Bat-Chen Diaries in Hebrew, Dutch, Arabic, Italian, Japanese, German and English. Our association organized a writing competition; in the name of Bat-Chen together with the "Aharai" organization. Our association organized workshops to promote coexistence and meetings between Arab and Jewish school. Together they planned and built a joint art project . Our association took part in an Israeli – Palestinian Study Group under the sponsorship of UPS which was a joint venture between 'ESHED' , Israel, 'THE WAY' from the Palestinian Authority, and UPS (Pontifical Salesian University) in Rome Our association has established a mixed group of Arab and Jewish women working together on an art project entitled: "WOMEN WEAVING A DIA