To curtail the high poverty and unemployment rates among Haredim, the Technion created a pre-university program that enables the ultra-orthofox to catch up on some of the core knowledge they may have missed in school.

There is a basic concept in circus art one cannot do without: Trust. If you are swinging from a trapeze or performing acrobatic tricks, you need to have total faith in your partner. This is precisely the idea that drives the Israel Circus School to create a peaceful space where Jewish and Arabic youth can start to get to know one another.