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The year 2017 was rich in achievements, while also involving complex challenges. This year, for the first time, we held the Open Houses Projects outside Jaffa, in Qatamon neighborhood in Jerusalem. This significant project exposed a Jerusalemite audience of 400 people to Zochrot’s messages.

Our film festival was highly successful, with 900 viewers attending it over the course of a single weekend.

We began promoting to challenging projects: Udna and Future of Return, inviting Israelis to take part in complex processes of awareness change with regard to the return of Palestinian refugees.

We held educational programs and short courses on urban planning, game development, Nakba and the Mizrahim, school curricula, and the Nakba and Zionist settler society, as well as a course about Rabbi Binyamin (see details below). We held several symposiums and launched groundbreaking books, such as Dr. Adel Manaa’s Nakba and Survival and Dr. Amer Dahamshe’s A Local Habitation and a Name.

In the resource development area, we managed to double the grant from Christian Aid and to retain the grant from CCFD that was previously scheduled to end this year. 

Our activities were aggressively attacked by extreme rightwing organizations, with support from municipal and national authorities. The Mayor of Beersheba was opposed to the course about Rabbi Binyamin in his city. The Minister of Culture was opposed to holding our film festival in Tel Aviv and Haifa, and was joined by the Deputy Knesset speaker. These attacks denied us significant resources of time and money, and we were sometimes forced to relocate our activities.