Derech Ruach for Elementary School Students

Vision

Founded in August 2011, “Derech Ruach” is a non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of the study of the humanities in Israel, and to integrating them in educational, social, economic and political spheres. We are convinced that without such integration, the intellectual, cultural and moral quality of these spheres suffers.

Activity

Our Primary School Program will focus on a broad general education that includes cultural and historical knowledge, exposure to art, the development of reading and writing abilities, and abilities to analyze, discuss and present a reasoned idea in writing and verbally, as well as the ability to critically reason and tell the difference between fact and opinion and the ability to ask uncommon questions that take a fresh look at society.

The target population is Israel’s socio-economic periphery. Our goals are to (1) develop the students’ reading and writing skills (2) their cultural and historical references and associations (3) ability to research and ask questions (4) rhetorical and presentation capabilities.

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Dr. Sigal Naor Perelman - Lior Perelman

Dr. Sigal Naor Perelman holds a PhD in Literature from the University of Haifa, was the deputy editor of “Mitaam,” a periodical for literature and radical thinking, and is a high school literature teacher. Until two years ago Sigal was a member of the Ministry of Education’s Committee for Literature Studies. She teaches at Batey Hinuch and in the faculty of History at the University of Haifa.

Lior Perelman holds a BA in Economics and an MA in Business Administration, both from the University of Haifa. He retired from active military service in 2010 at the rank of lieutenant colonel. During the last six years of his service, he served as the director of the “Atidim” project. Atidim recruits talented high school students from the underserved Israeli periphery, providing them with pre-army academic studies, which means that they get a professional placement in the IDF that serves as a springboard for their jobs in civilian life.