Design: Noa Olchovsky
ACRI and the Bat Yam City Council invite you to the conference:
A Social City under Test: Planning, Housing, and Human Rights
Tuesday, 3 January 2012, from 2:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Eshkol Ha’Payis, Ha’Dekel Street 3, Bat Yam
Entrance is free
Translation to English will be provided
Hosted by: Aviv Lavie (journalist)
15:30
Opening words:
Hagai El-Ad, Executive Director of ACRI
Shlomo Lahiany, Mayor of Bat Yam
1+1: Two people in an open conversation in front of an audience:
Conversation #1
15:30-16:15
How does urban planning create social exclusion? Can it promote integration?
Dr. Yishai Blank – Assistant Dean of the Tel Aviv University Law School and Chairperson of Bimkom – Planners for Planning Rights
Mr. Ofir Greenberg – CEO of Azorim Construction Company
Conversation #2
16:15-17:00
How can urban development be channeled for the creation of a “social city”?
Dr. Emily Silverman – Senior Research Fellow at the Samuel Neaman Institute for National Policy Research and the Center for Research of the City and the Area at the Technion; served as the chairperson of the advising team to the social protest regarding housing and transportation
Mr. Shlomo Lahiany – Mayor of Bat Yam
17:30-19:00
Panel discussion
Activists for social justice in planning:
Gideon Ambay – An activist for the housing rights of Ethiopian immigrants in Ramle (Shatil)
Hana Amouri – A social justice activist for the Palestinian population in Jaffa, was active in Jaffa’s social protest tent
Yechiel Fleishman – Columnist at Ynet and Yedioth Aharonoth, writes about the treatment he receives, as an ultra-Orthodox Jew, from secular Jews
Meirav Teller – Runs a home for people with disabilities in Kiryat Hayim
Moshe Cohen – A social activist from Bat Yam, was active in Bat Yam’s social protest tent
Amalia Siton – A social justice activist from south Tel Aviv, working to promote housing solutions for the local residents
