AVI CHAI’s “flagship” enterprise in promoting mutual understanding among Israeli Jews, representing a multi-faceted effort staffed by the Foundation. Tzav Pius (in Hebrew: an order for reconciliation) initiates and supports a wide variety of educational and community-related projects, including schools that bring together children from religious and non-religious families, religious-secular youth soccer teams, joint social activism for youth and communities, and dialogue groups for university students. Tzav Pius also sponsors large-scale programs intended to engage thousands of participants in shared experiences such as “Meeting Together on the Israel Trail,” which for the past five years has entailed hikes along the Israel Trail, attracting to date over 25,000 participants of diverse backgrounds who come to hike, study, and become acquainted with one another. Tzav Pius‘ most visible initiatives encompass a variety of media activities that promote messages of understanding, respect, and solidarity among Jews of different approaches to Jewish tradition. These include Internet-based initiatives, which bring together writers of different world views to discuss contemporary concerns, and Yesh Dibbur, a weekly radio program on a Haredi radio station. Since 2009, Tzav Pius has devoted increasing attention to fostering a network of mixed communities, where religious, traditional, and secular families live together based on values of solidarity and mutual respect.  With the help of the above activities and additional initiatives, Tzav Pius hopes to develop an expanding community of partners interested in promoting dialogue and understanding among different segments of Israeli society.

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