The project consisted of 12 lectures and one advisory meeting.

In total, 173 people were registered for the project, 93 became active participants in the project, 66 participants attended all lectures and received the appropriate certificate.

Project description:

In recent years Israel has been perceived by many in Ukraine if not as a model, then at least as a country whose experience deserves careful study.

Indeed, many parallels lie on the surface. The idea of creating an independent state arose among Jewish intellectuals in approximately the same Central and Eastern European political context and approximately when the formation of the Ukrainian national movement began.

Several decades later, both peoples experienced the dramatic tragedies of genocide.
Since its inception, the Jewish state has successfully resisted a much larger enemy, which considers the very fact of Israel’s existence unacceptable.

The ability to guarantee security and stop encroachments on its territory and lives of its citizens certainly attracts Ukrainians to Israel first of all. But, of course, not only military victories shape the image of the Jewish state.

Israelis have managed not only to develop culture, science and economy in an impressive way, but also to preserve political pluralism, democracy and freedom of speech, despite all security threats.

Undoubtedly, this side of the Israeli reality is also of great interest to Ukrainians. In the course of the project, formation of political Zionism, struggle for statehood, declaration of independence, and actual political history of the state’s development were considered.
Special attention was paid to the consideration of success factors – where success was achieved, and analysis of mistakes where, as it seems to us from today’s perspective, more could have been achieved.