Avital+Le's+Project

=toc Rationale=  My research question:

In what ways does Yonatan Levy contribute to the Israeli society and works towards building a better future in our community?

I have chosen to research this issue because Yonatan volunteers in a very special way. I want to share this with more people and let them know about the important work he does. In the project, I will tell about how Yonatan started "The Project" ( HaProyect) which involves creating an informal frame- work where teenagers can express their abilities, without any adult intervention. I want to research how he thought of the idea of "The Project" and for 6 years continues to put his idea into action.

I think I can learn a lot from him and I hope this project will help me be a better Israeli. While working, I expect to learn more about the different aspects of Yonatan's work and learn from his efforts. I'm very happy to do this project because Yonatan is my brother and I have had a connection to the Project during the past six years. =Profile =

"Youth today needs to be  busy. Instead of wandering around, tempted by potential dangers, or just getting bored, they should have goals which they spend their time trying to achieve. A lot of the youth groups today don't answer this need. In most of them, the kids just sit down and listen to lectures. I believe that teenagers should be busy doing meaningful things, working towards something so they can one day look back and be proud of what they have done, knowing that instead of wasting their time they used it for something positive."

This is Yonatan Levy's philosophy which he expresses in the group he established, "H'aproyekt". In "The Project", Yonatan involves teenagers from different schools and backgrounds in a special group. These kids from Efrat and Gush Etzion work together all year creating a show which they perform at the end of the year. There are about 50-70 teenagers every year from the 9'th grade through the 12'th grade. The teenagers in "The Project" write the show's script, compose the music for the show, rehearse and raise money for their activities. During the year, "The Project" organizes weekend's away (in youth hostels or field schools) special activities and volunteer work for the members. The kids in "The Project" divide up into different teams. Some of them work on raising money, some of them on writing the script, some on the stage props and the actors concentrate on rehearsals for the show.

Every year, the show presents a different story. In the first three years it was a full-length play and in the last two years the shows were made up of skits. The shows are humorous and entertaining but behind the jokes you can find plenty social criticism about all sorts of issues. It is very important to emphasize that the kids in The Project do //all// of the preparations and performances without any help from adults or official factors. Th is is the 6'th year that Yonatan is running "The Project". Yonatan has never learned theater or how to direct plays, but the success of "The Project" in the past five years proves that he knows to manage it well and get the most out of the kids' talents.

Yonatan Levy was born in 1986 in Jerusalem. In 1991 his parents decided to move to Efrat. Yonatan learned in the elementary school "Aseh Hail" in Efrat. In the fourth grade he joined the youth movement "Bnei-Akiva" and in seventh grade he started learning in the junior high school "Derech Avot". In the ninth he went to "Neveh Shmuel" and in tenth grade transferred back to "Derech Avot".

In the 10'th grade, Yonatan was elected to participate in the youth council of Efrat. From the 11'th grade to the 12'th he was a counselor in "Bnei- Akiva". In addition, during his high school years he volunteered as head of the youth council in Efrat, working with about 80 teenagers. Yonatan says, "It was much more important to me to connect with the kids than lecturing them or doing activities. I'm still in touch with a lot of them today." At the end of 12'th grade Yonatan joined the older group of "Bnei- Akiva", and was in charge of it for a year and a half. This group brought a lot of older teenagers to "Bnei- Akiva" and together they planned trips, volunteer work and activities for Efrat's youth. <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 150%;">While Yonatan was participating in this group, he started learning in the "Siach" Yeshiva in Efrat. After learning in the Yeshiva, Yonatan started his national service as head of the youth in Efrat's community center. He was part of the "Youth Advancement Department" in the Efrat City Council. Towards the end of his participati <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">on in the older Bnei Akiva group, while still in the Yeshiva, Yonatan decided that he didn’t want to just learn so he started thinking about something he could do during his spare time. He wanted it to involve teens. Finally he came up with the idea of involving teenagers from different backgrounds to participate in something valuable and meaningful. The kids in this framework would create a show that only they would organize and be in charge of, without any help from adults. At first he thought it would be something small but after the success of the first play in 2006, he decided to continue. Today, 2011, he is in the process of preparing the sixth show of "The Project".

=<span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"> Background Research = <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"> <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span class="hpsatn" style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> //""When I got to the Gush Etzion Community Center, the auditorium was completely full. The show st// <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">//arted and in a comic, convincing and impressive way we were back in the time of the Macabbees. As someone who works in the field of productions and public relations, I was very skeptical about the level of the play and its content. But after watching it I was truly amazed. I'm sure it wasn’t easy at all to produce this play, definitely not in 4 months."// <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span class="hpsatn" style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> (Kobi Yerucham, reporter for "Al HaMakom", local Gush Etzion paper, 6/2/2006")

<span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span class="hpsatn" style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> Kobi interviewed Yonatan during the work on the first show of "The Project" in 2006. During this interview, Yonatan described how he thought up the ideas for the Project and what the goals are. //"Our goal wasn’t that people will come and see us, but that kids have things to keep them busy after school".// Says Yonatan in the interview. //"Thanks to the play they can be creative and also develop their talent. For example, one of the kids is very talen// <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">//ted with music but he never thought he could compose a sound track. While working on the show we also bring together all types of teenagers who ordinarily wouldn’t get together and it was very important to me to show than although they are very different they can still work together and enjoy it."//

<span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> // " // // The Project // // work // // is // // a welcome // // and creative // // activity // // . // // We watched // // the evening // // skits. // // We were thrilled // //, we laughed // // and enjoyed ourselves // // . // // The fact // // that teenagers // // of all ages // // and from all // // types of // // backgrounds // // perform // // their talents // // in a creative // // way // // makes us proud and we really appreciat // // e them. //// They deserve to be acknowledged //// ." // <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">These are the words of one of the visitors to last year's show of The Project. <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">This shows the appreciation for the final result of what the Project members worked on for months. So how do these young teenagers make this huge and successful show happen? What is the process these kids go through? In what ways to they work to achieve this goal? <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> A: In the beginning of the y <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">ear, all of the members of the project are divided to teams. Almost all of them have to do with raising money for the use of the project during the year. Every team does it in a different way. For example: one team is in charge of organizing a lottery, another team plans a fair to raise funds for the project.

<span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">B: Besides these teams who work on raising money for the pr <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">ojects activities, there is another special team- the newspaper team. The team works on publishing a few editions of the projects news paper per- year. Unlike most local news papers, the projects paper doesn’t include updates about what is happening in the area but gives an opportunity to adults and teenagers to express their feelings, opinions and ideas on the paper's topic. Until now, they have published four editions of the paper on different topics.

<span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">C: After a few months of working in these teams, Yonatan starts auditioning kids for acting roles. After every actor gets his part, they start scheduling rehearsals about twice a week. Every actor i <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">nterprets his character and gets advice from Yonatan about how to present the role. At the beginning, every skit rehearses separately and as the show approaches all of the skits are rehearsed together. A few days before the show, the actors rehearse in the auditorium with microphones.

<span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">D: The other members of the project who are not actors, do not do less important work towards the show. They are responsible for the costumes, the props and other technical things. They work hard collecting items such as clothes, jewelry, furniture, and art materials. In addition, they work hard on building the stage setting from scratch, reusing things from previous years.

<span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">E: A very significant addition to the show is the music. Some of it is well- known songs that people can relate to but a big part of the music is original pieces written, composed and performed by the talented music team. Every year the contribution of the musicians is very noticeable and impressive, but last year they outdid themselves and had a live band performing on stage during the show!

<span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">F: What would be the point of all of this effort if, in the end, people wouldn’t come to the show? That is why the Project has its publicity team. Their job is to make people want to come and be <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">a part of this wonderful experience. <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">A few weeks before the performance, the publicity team comes up with creative ideas to draw the public's attention. For example, they hung up ribbons in the Project's color, purple, all around the city. In addition they put up jokes on bulletin boards to arouse interest and attention. On the bottom of the flye <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">r they write: //"Coming Soon- The Project."// Thank to this team people come and enjoy the show every year.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">"Youth Takes Th <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">e Stage In The Project":

<span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">"For the fifth year in a row, <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">dozens of young people from Efrat and Gush Etzion took the stage in HaProyekt, the Project. Produced and directed by Yonatan Levy, the Proyekt gives teens a place to be creative, clever and have fun together in a positive activity. About 60 young people participate in each season's show, writing the script and music, making costumes an scenery, <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">performing and handling PR and <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">This year's writers …are very talented young people- their script which followed <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">real families through their daily routine <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">of going to work, school, the mall etc. was very clever. The performers were just delightful." <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">(Sharon Katz, editor, Voices Magazine, Vol. 14, Issue 06. 2010)﻿﻿  <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Yonatan Levy started this amazing organization six years ago. Thanks to him hundreds of teenagers in Efrat and the surrounding towns have had an opportunity to express themselves and their talents in a fun and friendly atmosphere. These kids are involved and busy with other kids that they ordinarily would never have met because they are from different schools and backgrounds.

=<span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;">Personal Connection =

<span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">I was asked to write about how I feel about Israel, my country. At first I thought, "Great! This should be easy!" However, I guess it's more difficult than I thought because being an Israeli is difficult, it's complicated.

<span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Every day I live my normal life, like all my friends and almost like all teenagers in the world. I have to go to school, do homework, study for tests, go to dance class, talk to my friends, almost like everyone. But in reality, this is more to that. As an Israeli, I feel like I'm carrying some kind of burden. Yes, we have a lovely country. The people are nice, the views are amazing…but there is something different.

<span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">As a girl who grew up in the years of the "Intifada", I have mixed feelings about BEING an Israeli. I feel terrified of driving into Jerusalem. I feel like justice "skipped" Israel in the past few years. During memorial ceremonies for fallen soldiers and terror victims, I feel anger towards so many different people in the country. However, despite all that, I feel happy I'm here, at home, and I feel proud to be part of this country.

<span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">All of this is just too confusing. I have no idea what I should feel, what I want to feel or what I already do feel. Sometimes I get crazy with all of these feelings. But lately I found something that helps me. It doesn’t make all this go away, but it keeps me calm, hopeful.

<span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">I recently learned a song which truly expresses how I feel. It's a song in castellan (Argentinean Spanish) sung by a group called "Teen Angels". I translated it into English: <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: left; text-indent: 36pt; unicode-bidi: embed;"> <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: 36pt; unicode-bidi: embed;">__Resist-__

After a great pain I feel like I'm dying. If I hurt what I love- I get lost. I can't continue anymore I don’t have time. I want to see you in my memories.

Resist- I'm coming Resist- I see yo Resist- I'm here Resist- I can feel you

They can empty you out, they can break you Take my hand and hold on tight They can surround you, they can kill you And leave you all alone Resist After what happened Nothing is the same as before. My heart talks to me

Resist- I'm coming Resist- I see you Resist- I'm here Resist- I can feel you

With bombs, with traps With fear and weapons They can steal your mind and invent a different story And not let you think on you own

They can empty you out, they can break you Take my hand and hold on tight They can surround you, they can kill you And leave you all alone Resist <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">(By Cris Morena and Leandro Calderone) <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">This song is my song. I didn’t write it, but I feel like it was written for me. I found this is the only way for me to confront the complications of being an Israeli. By RESISTING. Resisting the darkness, the violence, the war.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">I just participated (as a dancer) in a ceremony in which the policemen of Israel got citations for their contribution to the state. I stood there and thought "This is what being an Israeli really means. We mourn our losses, but then we move on, proudly."

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">So they can empty us, they can break us, they can surround us, and they can kill us, but they will never take our hope away. Because we all, in one way or another, resist.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">I guess that is what makes me an Israeli, I have hope, and faith. I RESIST. I still have lots of mixed feelings about being an Israeli but I am certain about one thing- the only way we Israelis can survive is by resisting.

<span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">The original song in castellan: <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Despues de un gran dolor <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Siento que muero. <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Si da ño lo que amo-  <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">voy perdiendo. <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">No puedo seguir mas <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">No tengo tiempo  <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Te quiero ver a vos  <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">en mis recuerdos. <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Resiste- ya voy <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Resiste- te veo  <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Resiste- yo estoy  <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Resiste- te siento <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Pueden vaciarte, pueden quebrarte, <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Toma mi mano para aferrarte  <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Pueden rodearte, pueden matarte  <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Y dejarte a un lado del mas  <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Resiste. <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"> <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Despues de lo que fue <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Nada es lo mismo  <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Me habla el Corazon  <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Y sigo vivo <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Resiste- ya voy <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Resiste- te veo  <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Resiste- yo estoy  <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Resiste- te siento <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Con bombas, con trampas, <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Con miedo, con armas,  <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Pueden robarte la memoria hasta inventar,  <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Que hay otra historia escrita para no pensar. <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Pueden vaciarte, pueden quebrarte, <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Toma mi mano para aferrarte  <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Pueden rodearte, pueden matarte  <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Y dejarte a un lado del mas  <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Resiste =<span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">Reflection =

<span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">When I set out to do this project, I hoped to learn more about something I basically knew about. I had been exposed to the "Project" since the age of eleven and followed my brother's activities as closely as I could. I was a little bit aware of how much was involved in the "Project's" work and I had gone to all of the productions. However, the interview I did with Yonatan and the additional research I did really showed me much more. I learned what Yonatan's true goals are and how much planning and thought he puts into every aspect of what he does. I enjoyed learning about the different details and getting a clearer picture. He totally fits the descriptions of an Israeli that is contributing to the society he lives in.

<span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">The most successful part for me was the Personal Connection section. Here I had the opportunity to connect issues which are very important to me. I could identify with the question "What do you feel about being an Israeli" through a song of my favorite singing group. Translating the song and tying it in to life in Israel was very meaningful. The message of the song and the purpose of the Project are different but for me they are both important sides of living in this country. =<span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"> Work Cited =

<span class="hpsatn" style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Koby Yerucham, "Al HaMakom" newspaper, Pesach edition, April 2006, february 23

<span class="hpsatn" style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Sharon Katz, "Voices" Magazine, vol. 14, issue 06, february 28

<span class="hpsatn" style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Neomi HaCohen, " //The Project work is a welcome and creative activity...." -// I got some information from Naomi who has helped The Project and her son was a part of The Project