Rimon Institute for Knowing the Land

To manage, maintain, supervise, upkeep and operate all assets of the organization and assets transferred for operation by the Bnei Shim'on Regional Council (hereinafter: "the Council"). Establishing, founding, operating and managing educational frameworks, social activities and community activities in the Council's territory and for its residents. To initiate, encourage, promote, cultivate, plan, organize, conduct, maintain, finance, equip, sustain, develop, operate and manage domestic and foreign tourism in the region, including developing recreational opportunities in Lahav Forest Park, in nature, at archaeological sites, in the forests of the Jewish National Fund within the Council's territory. Organizing clubs, study days, projects and meetings between communities in the region and other areas relevant to the region. To conduct educational, cultural, artistic and sports activities within the Council's territory. To initiate, encourage, promote, cultivate, plan, found, establish, build, organize, conduct, maintain, finance, equip, sustain, develop, operate and manage a research institute for the study of the Negev and southern Shephelah regions (hereinafter - "the region"), including: initiating, encouraging, promoting, cultivating, planning, organizing, conducting, financing, sustaining and managing research, including excavations in the fields of geography, geology, fauna and flora, history, archaeology, ethnology, anthropology and folklore of the region and its inhabitants. Collecting, acquiring, receiving, borrowing, renting, centralizing and displaying findings and items. To initiate, plan, organize, finance, maintain, equip, sustain, operate and manage conferences, conventions, symposiums, lectures, seminars, expert conferences, delegations, clubs, exhibitions, museums, social projects in the fields of regional awareness. To publish, print, edit, distribute, produce and publicize books, journals, newspapers, research, works, films, computer software, works of art and print, as well as other publications relating to regional awareness. To cooperate with the Bnei Shim'on Regional Council, with other local authorities and with various bodies in any way that may promote, directly or indirectly, any purpose of the organization's objectives. The organization shall be competent for all rights, obligations and legal actions. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the organization shall be authorized to do, itself or through others, all those actions related to, arising from or involved in the organization's objectives, all or some, or capable of promoting, assisting, facilitating and serving or contributing in any way to achieving the organization's objectives, all or some, including operating and managing auxiliary actions and services of any kind capable of promoting, directly or indirectly, any purpose of the organization's objectives