Education

The House to Be (Lihyot) is a meeting place for Holocaust survivors from different communities in Holon and a center that runs educational programs for teenagers and soldiers. In House to Be Holon’s youth meet with Holocaust survivors, providing them the opportunity to listen to personal accounts. Four volumes with stories of approximately 2,000 survivors, all citizens of Holon, have been published under the title of Lihyot. The publication editor is Tzipi Kichler, citizen of Holon and born in Bergen-Belsen.
Support is needed to build a two-floor extension of House to Be for classrooms, meeting rooms and offices. The heart of the extension will be a covered inside garden featuring a Memorial Wall.
Address: Gilad Street 10. Tel.: 972 3 50 50 085
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With the Heritage Center in Holon’s Shazar School the dream of School Principal, Arjeh Blinder, comes to fruition. The Center permanently displays aspects of daily life in Jewish communities in the Diaspora and their journeys to Israel. We are shown a wide spectrum of Jewish objects, symbols and rituals whose details reflect and teach us about the various cultures from which it originated. A visit to the Heritage Center brings a broader understanding of the Israeli society with all its different communities, promotes tolerance and creates a sense of belonging. Each year all of Holon’s 6th grade students come to visit the Center.
Future goals include opening the Center to the wider community, to establish a meeting hall, to organize tours and workshops and to establish a computerized information center for citizens that want to learn about their history.
Address: Kdoshey Kahir 18. Tel.: 972 3 50 34 488.

The Coexistence Center is established in Holon’s Gordon School to teach school children about the complexity of Israeli society and to create an awareness of the need to accept the other. A society of secular and religious people, Jews and Arabs, Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews, old and new immigrants creates all kind of disputes and disagreements. These complexities are also expressed in the society of children and need to be addressed. The Center offers all 5th and 6th Grade Primary School students two days of experiential workshops dealing with cultural pluralism, Jewish identity, patience and tolerance.
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The Strudel Center, Holon’s computer center and internet caf?, offers a variety of computer courses and workshops for youth and adults. These courses are delivered by a professional team of instructors and include ‘website building’ and ‘PC Doctors’ for youth as well as ‘PC for beginners’ and ‘Internet’ for adults. Workshops include subjects as ‘digital photography’ and ‘digital graphics’.
Address: Mesilat Haoliem 2. Tel.: 972 3 50 39 043.
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The Chevrolet Club is a music club offering a variety of activities, courses, workshops and performances satisfying the interests and needs of teenagers and young musicians. A professional rehearsal room supports young musicians to create new groups; a monthly Young Band Evening allows new bands to present themselves. Teenagers of the club produce Friday evening music parties and first-row Israeli musicians perform in the Chevrolet Club. Workshops, courses for DJ and electronic music and a School for Street Theatre are other highlights of the Chevrolet Club.
Address: Hamanor 9. Tel.: 972 3 55 80 881/2.
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The Friends of Holon Foundation choose the two biggest youth centers in Holon for further support. The Bungee Center and Lion Gate both empower some 400 children and teenagers through a variety of projects and activity groups, including dance, arts, sports, first aid, leadership, theatre, story-telling, self-awareness and community volunteering. The centers are open from Sunday – Thursday from 16.00 – 20.00. The Bungee Center is located on Chaim Landau 17, tel.: 972 3 55 35 147. Lion Gate is on Shaar Haarayot 16, tel. 972 3 55 63 931.
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Holon counts 155 kindergardens (state-run, religious as well as special education). They serve 4,800 children in the age of 3 – 6. For each kindergarden a computer is highly desirable, including side-equipment and internet-connection. Computers will help to decrease the digital gap for children that do not have a computer at home and upgrade the educational environment of the kindergarden. The teachers will get the possibility to communicate on-line and to establish a teachers-forum.
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