years. There's a
Partnership 2000
• Creative Coexistence Leadership
programs for Arab and Jewish youth
Partnership 2000 encourages and fosters
• Excellence in Music, Technology
and Sports programs for high
school students
enduring relationships between Jewish
communities of Michigan and the Central
• Professional exchanges: social
workers, educators, family educators
Galilee (Nazareth Illit, Jezreel Valley and
Migdal HaEmek). Federation volunteers and
staff work closely with representatives of
Israeli municipal authorities and volunteers
to develop activities of mutual interest and
benefit. The partnership will be going into
its 10th year in 2005. Some of the P2K
projects and accomplishments include:
• Young Leadership — a parallel
leadership development program
for men and women ages 27-45
• Holiday booklets (Purim, Haggadah
for Yom Ha'atzmaut, Succot) have
been published in Hebrew and
English and distributed to Jewish
schools in both areas
e re proud of Israel because...
Israel, the 100th smallest country, with less
than .1/1000th of the world's population, can
lay claim to the following:
• Israel developed the first fully
computerized, no-radiation, diagnostic
instrumentation for early detection of
breast cancer.
• Most of the Windows NT and XP
operating systems were developed by
Microsoft-Israel.
• The technology for instant messenger was
invented by an Israeli-founded company.
• Israel has the highest percentage in the
world of home computers per capita.
• Israel has the highest ratio of university
degrees to the population of the world.
• Israel is a world leader in environmental
research.
• According to industry officials,
Israel designed the airline industry's most
10,0.ad
impenetrable flight security.
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