a. To organize and unite business owners in Haifa, the north and throughout the country in order to preserve, protect, develop, improve and promote their economic, professional, social and public interests.
b. To organize and unite those engaged in crafts and industry in Haifa and the north.
c. To represent the various interests of business owners in Haifa and the north, and in particular of the craft and industry sector before various authorities.
d. Handling efforts to increase professional efficiency of association members for their economic and social welfare.
e. To organize cultural, educational and social activities and promote mutual assistance among association members.
f. To work to increase public awareness of entrepreneurship values and the interests of small and medium business owners in Haifa and the north.
g. To establish and lead quality "meeting platforms" for the community of members.
h. To establish and expand cooperation frameworks among community members.
i. To improve, strengthen and promote the status of the confederation as a leading body in quality representation of small and medium businesses.
j. To work toward promoting, preserving and transferring professional knowledge of members to the community.
k. To work for technological education in Israel.
l. To work for social change based on the existence and prosperity of small and medium businesses in Israel.
m. To serve as an employers' organization for its members in all matters according to collective agreement law, labor dispute settlement law and any other law or legislation relating to labor relations, both for the organization itself and for its members, and to represent association members in all matters relating to labor relations and labor law, labor dispute declarations, and signature of general or specific collective agreements in all member matters, and to appear in any legal, quasi-legal or arbitration proceeding regarding the aforementioned matters both in its own name and in the name of its members.
n. To establish, found and manage various financial and economic institutions for the service and assistance of those engaged in crafts and industry in Haifa and the north.
o. To act and assist business owners in conducting professional development, and for this purpose to organize courses, evening classes and professional schools, conduct examinations and tests of knowledge and professional level of those engaged in various fields of expertise in Haifa and the north.
p. To issue and award craftsperson certificates and various confirmations attesting to and evidencing the level and degree of knowledge and professional ability of those engaged in crafts and industry in Haifa and the north.
q. To initiate and encourage establishment of craft workshops and industrial buildings for members of various professional organizations united in the confederation and to establish special companies for this purpose.
r. To publish and distribute newspapers and publications.
s. To care for and handle obtaining and receiving various rights for the confederation, members and professional organizations united in the confederation.
t. To negotiate with state authorities and/or its institutions and/or any other municipal or public authority on matters relating to laws, regulations, orders, concessions, licenses or any other professional matter which the confederation decides.
u. To participate in councils, committees and other statutory bodies such as the Social Security Institute Council, Labor Relations Council, Apprenticeship Council, Occupational Health and Safety Institute Council, Employment Service Council, Oversight Committees for expansion orders, labor courts, Standards Institute, research and human resources funds, coordination office of economic organizations and the like.
v. To foster relationships and respect among those engaged in crafts and industry united in the confederation and in various confederations of craft and industrial workers.
w. To develop relationships with parallel organizations of craftspeople and industrialists in other countries.
x. To handle all matters relating to those engaged in crafts and industry.
y. To guide its actions also toward people and organizations not among its members according to conditions to be determined both by law and by confederation leadership.
z. To direct activities toward advancing small and medium businesses in the north and throughout the country
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