Past Projects
Past Lissan projects, including teacher training for Hebrew and Arabic teachers and Arabic courses for MDA and United Hatzala first responders
Hebrew for Employment
Breaking down the barriers towards employment via occupational Hebrew courses in a variety of fields
Hebrew for Employment aims to provide a way to overcome the language barrier, and advance the integration of East Jerusalemite Palestinians into the workforce via Hebrew language courses adapted to a wide variety of fields. In this project, we work in collaboration with the Jerusalem Municipal Employment Authority and various organizations and employment programs, and offer occupational Hebrew courses to provide the language skills necessary to integrate into the Hebrew speaking workforce and advance professionally.
We have held courses in the following fields, and more:
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Cleaning workers
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At-risk young adults
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Daycare assistants
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Students
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Young mothers
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Small business owners
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Low-income families
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Women
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Engineers and computer science alumni of Palestinian universities
A Taste of Hebrew - Teimot Ivrit
Breaking down the geographic barrier by bringing the classes to the students in community centers in East Jerusalem
Teimot Ivrit - a Taste of Hebrew offers intensive basic Hebrew language courses to East Jerusalemite men and women in local community centers throughout East Jerusalem in partnership with the Municipality of Jerusalem. This project lowers the psychological, financial, and geographical barriers to learning Hebrew, making it more accessible for women and men in East Jerusalem to improve their language skills.
Teacher Training for Hebrew and Arabic Teachers in Jerusalem
Over recent years, many frameworks for Hebrew or Arabic studies have popped up around Jerusalem, showing the importance of both languages in the shared public spaces in the city. In order to advance and strengthen quality language education of both languages Lissan, in partnership with Madrasa, launched shared Hebrew-Arabic teacher training which offers relevant and practical tools for teaching both languages in the bilingual
city spaces. This training served as a complimentary and enriching platform for teachers in the field and included a series of meetings on a variety of relevant topics for language teachers in Jerusalem, including: approaches to language education, the cultural and political context of language education in a bilingual space, grammar background, and more. This project also aims to connect and create a multicultural and multilingual community of language educators in Jerusalem.
This project was created in collaboration with Madrasa with the support of the Jerusalem Foundation and in partnership with Tolerance Coalition.
Medabrim Aravit - Arabic for Medical Personnel
"Medabrim Aravit - Arabic for Medical Personnel,” a project run by Lissan between 2016-2019, was a project designed to provide Arabic language skills to medical personnel from West Jerusalem. The program provided participants with basic conversational Arabic and useful medical vocabulary, emphasizing practical spoken Arabic skills for communication with patients.
Through this project, Lissan worked to reduce the language barrier that makes it difficult for medical personnel to communicate with their
Arabic-speaking patients. The goal of the project was to enhance the ability of medical personnel to provide quality medical care to East Jerusalem residents.
Lissan created this project in response to the difficulties that Hebrew-speaking paramedics encounter when providing medical assistance to the residents of East Jerusalem, as most volunteer paramedics do not speak Arabic. Reducing the linguistic gap between patient and medical provider makes it easier to provide life-saving primary care and increases the patient's ability to be an active partner in the medical process.
“Medabrim Aravit - Arabic for Medical Personnel” was a collaboration with Magen David Adom and United Hatzalah.