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PNIMA strives to develop Israeli solutions that enable social resilience, a common vision, and shared values

PNIMA locates strategic core issues for the future of Israel that can reduce polarization and offer a shared vision and values. Alongside research and in-depth learning of the issues, PNIMA specializes in building broad and diverse partnerships that jointly develop applicable solutions with a broad consensus. PNIMA promotes the solutions together with the government and the Knesset and adapts them to the Israeli reality. The state is responsible for implementing the solution and budgeting for it. Through the Israeli Workshop, PNIMA focuses on establishing a strong ideological center, in addition to being a ‘House of Solutions’. Through men and women of spirit and action who represent Israel’s society as a whole, this house of ideas and thoughts assumes an orderly ideological agenda.

PNIMA’s Working Model

New Israeli Contract

In light of a deepening polarization crisis and the face of a collapse of public trust in government systems and state institutions, PNIMA is writing a new Israeli vision and contract: a redefinition of the relationship between the state, the local government, the community, and the individual. We develop solutions for a wide range of strategic core issues: public education, a new service model, personal security, decentralization of powers based on local democracy, immigration, national identity in Arab society, holy places, and more.

Pnima's Solutions

PNIMA identifies core issues in four key areas: governance, society and economy, Judaism and state, and identity and communities. Each core issue is accompanied from the solution development phase with a diverse partnership, through policy promotion to implementation and assimilation by the state. Here is a breakdown of our solutions – the first chapters of the ‘New Israeli Contract’:

The regional arena has many advantages. Municipalities are known for their close relations with citizens and a thorough understanding of their identities and cultures. This enables a quick and accurate response to the changing needs of residents. PNIMA’s solution strengthens the process of decentralization of powers from the national government to the local government while establishing a local democratic culture that recognizes local communities as a strategic factor that promotes cohesion and social resilience. State governance changes from highly centralized to participative, local governments transform from executive into leading local governments, and communities develop local identities and shared values.

The solution was created to end the recruitment crisis that has plagued the IDF for decades. This innovative model provides meaningful service to every young man and woman in Israel in a culturally and communally appropriate manner. “Service for All” promotes social leadership, belonging, and meaning, as well as shared responsibility, Israeli values, and Israeli ethos.

The Sabbath is a significant national asset for Israel, but in recent decades it has been a source of social controversy. In PNIMA’s solution, Shabbat becomes a valuable and unifying symbol that highlights each community’s unique identity. Halacha, Jewish nationalism, and personal freedom are at the center of this celebration of diverse Israeli culture. The Ministry of Culture approved PNIMA’s solution and budgeted more than NIS 40 million each year to open free cultural institutions throughout the country tailored to cater to everyone, including religious and ultra-Orthodox groups. There are more than 100 authorities participating in Israeli Shabbat, including ultra-orthodox and Arab authorities.

Solution development

The ethos of public education is eroding. Having no educational core indicates a decline in the state’s education responsibilities. In order to define the role and responsibilities of the government, the authority, the community, and the individual in education, PNIMA operates a steering committee, a forum of ministers of education (with all former ministers of education participating), a think tank under the “Israeli Workshop”, a research team and a policy group. PNIMA will promote the solution to be implemented by the government following the development phase.
In 2021, PNIMA established a work team to address issues of identity and belonging among Arab society in Israel, particularly the delicate relations between Arab society and the State of Israel. This team operates on several axes: an internal policy team, a working group, and a senior steering committee. The work products will include policy recommendations for the government, local authorities, and civil society, to promote an innovative concept of “uniqueness and togetherness”.

One of PNIMA’s solutions to citizenship and immigration is the “Waiting to Return” solution, which addresses one of the most painful issues for Israelis of Ethiopian origin – the treatment of their relatives who remain in Ethiopia from the “seed of Israel.” With the formulated solution, all the different parties will be able to agree to some extent without creating a precedent that will bind them in the future. After many years, the Waiting to Return solution brought an end to the painful affair and allowed 3,000 families to be reunited. In recognition of our efforts, PNIMA was awarded the “Harel Award” for bringing Jews to Israel in 2022.

Currently, we are working on an immigration policy that will provide comprehensive and coherent answers to immigration questions.

Violence is on the rise in Israeli society. Personal security is lacking across sectors and borders. Personal and public use of force has become a legitimate and profitable course of action. Israeli citizens are harmed by violence, and our shared spaces are threatened. With the focus on the perception of how the police function, moving from enforcement to prevention and their public image in society, PNIMA proposes solutions while examining the responsibility of the state. PNIMA looks at the role of local authorities as well as the community in dealing with violent norms that have taken hold.

The solutions offered by PNIMA are not short-term compromises, but long-term solutions combining inspiration and applicability. They are essential for paving the Israeli Golden Path and strengthening social-national resilience in the spirit of the Declaration of Independence.

Impact - 2023

Solution development

200 partners from all parts of Israeli society took part in formulating 4 joint Israeli solutions to core issues

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ministers, Knesset members, and mayors
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civil society officials and community leaders
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private individuals, entrepreneurs, and businesspersons

Policy-Making

PNIMA’s solutions were adopted and budgeted by the state with an investment of hundreds of millions of dollars.

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Ministry of Defense
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a joint venture with the Prime Minister's Office and the Rashi Foundation
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Ministry of Economy
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Ministry of Culture and Sports
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Ministry of Immigration and Absorption

Implementation

The State of Israel implements PNIMA’s solutions and creates a broad and long-term social impact

Service for All
Israeli Sabbath
Immigration
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participants in PNIMA's service model
A joint venture

to build and standardize the new model

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authorities participate
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museums and heritage sites are open on Shabbat and are accessible to all sections of society
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Jews immigrated from Ethiopia to Israel under the terms of PNIMA's proposed solution

Public Activity

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Publications in the media​
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Media publications (print and digital) ​
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Interviews on radio and television​
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Books published by Beit Yotzer Israeli​

80% of PNIMA's investors are Israelis

Media

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Pnima sees great importance in creating applicable policy solutions with the participation of all parts of society in Israel. We would be happy to hear a variety of opinions and we promise to carefully read your reference.

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