The Jerusalem Foundation has launched the Julia Koschitzky Youth Leadership Prize for Good Citizenship for 2025. Youth movements and groups in the city who have run a unique or innovative project showing commitment to their local community are invited to nominate projects that they run on the subject of “Good Citizenship”.
Prizes awarded are up to 15,000 NIS per project.
The project must demonstrate good citizenship, social leadership, uniqueness and innovation, and commitment to the Jerusalem Community and the various populations of the city.
Former winners include:
- Israel Scouts in Jerusalem for its innovative Shared Living Social Action Group, combining religious and secular youth in a community service program where participants reside and volunteer together at Hadassah Hospital by teaching hospitalized chronically or terminally ill children in the hospital school and summer camp and conduct educational activities for Jerusalem youth movement members from diverse sectors on social action and shared living. The program is run by 5 high school graduate service gap year participants, who guided/instructed 230 youth movement participants and 350 10th graders throughout the year, conducted summer camp activities for about 700 children and created and facilitated educational activities for some 3,500 participants across the city.
- The Shlavim organization and Yachdav Youth Movement for its innovative environmental preservation and education program, conducted with 50 grades 6 and 7 pupils from a Haredi middle school involving the programming and use of robots to collect litter and alert users of sources of pollution, teaching about reusable resources.
- Youth Movements and Hartman High School for their ‘My Senior’ project providing vital weekly social interaction and the packing and delivery of Sabbath and holiday meals to isolated elderly in the community throughout the year. This peer-initiated and led youth activity will expand in 2023.
There is a Jury that chooses the prize winners that includes, JF President, Arik Grabelsky, JF Director General, Imry Ben Ami and board members from JF, as well as leading educators in Jerusalem and a member of the Koschitzky Family.
Submissions are due by April 5, 2025, and full details can be found on the Jerusalem Foundations website.