Israeli culture

Education

• •Restoring investment in the national culture basket, to increase the exposure of children in the social and geographic periphery to culture and the arts
• •Encouraging arts studies and cultural-literacy education in the school system, and allocating resources to train arts teachers and for the infrastructure these studies need in schools

Regional Development & Periphery

• •Ensuring access to culture in the social and geographic periphery and a stage for a wide range of groups

Culture

A multi-year path to raising the culture budget, rebuilding cultural institutions hit by the war, a government support fund for artists, protecting the independence of the professional culture councils, and restoring the state's official prizes.

• •A multi-year path to raising the culture budget, aiming for what is customary in OECD countries, based on the principle that investing in culture has economic value, with mechanisms to make sure the added budget is also economically worthwhile
• •Budgets to rebuild the operating infrastructure of cultural institutions hit by the war and the Covid crisis, and ensuring access to culture in the social and geographic periphery and a stage for a wide range of groups
• •A holistic government commitment to advancing culture, led by the Ministry of Culture in transparent and fair processes, with more cooperation and coordination among the ministries
• •Promoting Israeli culture abroad and strengthening mechanisms for cultural cooperation with other countries, including examining a culture export institute and incentive tracks for foreign productions in Israel
• •A government support fund for artists and technical crews, to increase economic certainty for people in the sector and to help during crises when cultural institutions are shut down
• •Protecting the independent standing of the professional councils for culture (culture and the arts, film, museums and libraries) from political interference, and restoring the mechanisms for awarding the state's official prizes in culture and the arts
• •Restoring investment in the national culture basket, to increase the exposure of children in the social and geographic periphery to culture and the arts
• •Encouraging arts studies and cultural-literacy education in the school system, and allocating resources to train arts teachers and for the infrastructure these studies need in schools
• •Ensuring investment in original Israeli productions through incentive tracks, and regulating broadcasting and media to the international standard
• •A fund for innovation in art and culture, to develop digital culture and encourage cooperation among cultural institutions, innovation centers and academia
• •Examining a chief-scientist unit for culture, to set transparent measures for government investment in culture and analyze the impact of promoting Israeli culture abroad