First Quarterly Report - mapping the Jewish Peoplehood field in Israel

We are proud to present the first quarterly report for 2022 of the mapping system for the professional field of peoplehood in Israel. The bulk of data presented in the report is from January-March 2022, alongside the current status as of the publication of the report (April 2022). The mapping system, whose development commenced in the summer of 2021, is intended to serve leaders of organizations and activists in the field of Israeli-Diaspora relations.

Although the system is merely in its infancy, we have already experienced significant progress in the sharing of information between organizations and in the ability to produce a common understanding of the development processes in the professional field of peoplehood in Israel. It is our hope that the current report and subsequent reports will assist the leaders with guiding important processes for the advancement of peoplehood in Israel, through a deeper acquaintance with the professional field.

The system is the product of joint mapping activity involving members of the Jewish Peoplehood Coalition and led by the following organizations: Reut Group, Enter, AMI - the National Alliance strengthening Israelis' connection to World Jewry, the World Zionist Organization, and Our Common Destiny.

All the data collected as part of the mapping process appear in the full mapping report written by Dr. Ezra Koplowitz and Dr. Shlomi Ravid. The mapping report in conjunction with the dashboard developed by ‘Know Your Data’ concludes a first-of-its-kind process of mapping civic activity in a social field, presenting the myriad of data collected and enabling a broad and in-depth view of various and diverse aspects at the level of programs, leadership and organizations.

The purpose of the system is to provide an in-depth look at the professional field, to obtain an up-to-date status, and to enable advanced analyses in order to decipher trends and processes in the field of peoplehood in Israel. Furthermore, we hope that the system will help encourage collaborations and pool resources, encourage the expansion of peoplehood content into new fields, reduce knowledge and information gaps and prevent operational "blind spots", as well as support informed and empirical resolutions based on data and not just intuition.

The goal of the report is to create a tool that can demonstrate the changes and trends in the Peoplehood field, in order to present an up-to-date picture to all stakeholders and decision-makers. While this is an initial product, reflecting the capabilities of the system in its current version, it can still point out many processes in the field. The system is still in development and will offer more extensive capabilities over the coming year.

We are committed to implementing the system in the field of peoplehood, in order to be able to track and highlight profound processes of change in various areas such as: education, non-formal education, leadership and training programs, delegations and educational tourism, civil society, philanthropy, public perception, academia, culture and more.

Q1 report focuses on two parts - data developments as seen in the system; and analysis of selected data from the report.