About Us

The Social Economic Academy (SEA) is a non-profit organization, which conducts open-to-the-public lectures, courses and events, overviewing various economic, social and environmental issues and problems. These activities are designed to promote public debate on those subjects and to encourage community leadership. Our activities target the public at large and social activists in particular.

SEA offers its students both theoretical and practical tools needed to promote social-economic change. Our activities give our students an opportunity to engage in dialogue and to encounter different and unfamiliar sides of the Israeli society. Furthermore, SEA encourages its students to become involved in social leadership and take actions that will bring significant transformations in decision-making and economic reality.

Over the last 6 years since its inception, SEA has directly reached more than 35,000 people of all ages, from all ethnicities and from all walks of life through our activities all over Israel. In addition, SEA reaches hundreds of thousands of people annually through it s lectures and articles that are published weekly on popular internet sites; as well as other media related activities.

SEA holds activities in four branches across Israel: Beer Sheva, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa. In addition SEA held classes in different locations in the periphery such as the Arab Village of Arara (2006), the Bedouin city Rahat, the city of Beit-Shemesh and many more. In addition to the courses held in our branched in the currant academic year we hold courses as well in Rehovot, Revadim, Kiryat Shmona, Carmiel, the city of Sderot and more. All of the teachers (now more then 470) – are among the leading lecturers in Israel such as Prof. Dani Gutwine, Prof. Moshe Zukerman, Prof. Ariel Rubinstein, Prof. Avner De-Shalit, Prof. Yosi Yona and many others - donate their time. The symbolic tuition is used to cover rental expenses of the classrooms. SEA is part of a network and cooperation with different organizations and institutions dealing with shared concerns.

Our activities focus around three areas:

Knowledge – we offer short and full semester series of courses providing theoretical information and practical tools.

Agents of Change – we offer courses to activists in organizations for social change such as Community Advocacy, Ahoti, the Scout Youth Movement, Hashomer Hatza’ir, Hanoar Ha’Oved, the Ma’ase Center, and the Training School for Social Services’ Workers.

Public Debate - the Social Economic Academy uses different public platform to spread its message: major internet media outlets such as YNet and Walla, critical economic public debates in different political cross points, A Movie and Lecture series in major cities’ Cinematheque.