Facing History is working on multiple projects in Israel. We have had a relationship with the Center for Humanistic Studies at the Ghetto Fighters Museum [1] for many years. Director Raya Kalisman has attended Facing History seminars and participated in the Facing History Global Symposium in the summer of 2005 with educators from across the globe. Other staff members from the Center have also attended Facing History seminars, which has enabled their staff to incorporate Facing History resources and methodology into the Center's work.

Facing History received a grant to do exciting new work with the New Israel Fund [2] to create educational materials and facilitate a seminar for educators in Israel. In the fall of 2006 Facing History will conduct a three day seminar that will incorporate these new materials into the program and this seminar will be attended by teachers, administrators and people from the ministry of education who are involved in citizenship education. The three day seminar will combine content with effective teaching strategies. It will be hosted by the Ghetto Fighters Museum and followed up by a spring trip to assess the implementation of these new materials in classrooms. We will also be doing a one day workshop in Jerusalem for people who can not be part of the three day seminar.

Working with the JCRC and CJP [3], Facing History is also involved in the Boston-Haifa connection. Educators in three schools in Haifa will attend a Facing History seminar in the summer of 2006 and will then be partnered with three Boston area schools.