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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