The Heschel Center for Environmental Learning and Leadership

The Heschel Center was established to lead Israel to become a society based on renewal of the values of justice and caring for the future of the land and its inhabitants. The Heschel Center trains leading individuals from across the spectrum of Israeli society to become the social-environmental vanguard, implementing this innovative vision of an ecologically and socially sustainable future based on values we inherited from our forebears. Building on the inherent strengths and advantages underlying Israeli society and its traditions, while learning from successful forward-looking efforts here and around the world, the Heschel Center is creating a body of concrete examples of what needs to be done and how to achieve it: planning and design which encourage community vibrancy and strengthen sustainable local economies, agriculture which grows healthy food for all citizens while enhancing land and water quality; participatory democracy based on active and committed citizens and enlightened, transparent government, building carbon-free energy self-reliance, revitalizing urban areas.