• Introduction to tennis for children throughout Israel’s Arab community
  • New and refurbished courts open every year
  • Tennis schools in Nazareth, Sakhnin, Jisr El Zarka, Maghrar and Abu Gosh.
  • Jewish/Arab tennis programmes for more than 350 children each year
  • Nearly 1,000 children in our tennis programmes
  • Junior coexistence league teams triumph in tennis tournaments
  • Coaching and travel grants for outstandingly talented juniors
  • Grants to encourage more Arab coaches to teach tennis
  • Tennis programme for 80 disabled youngsters in Carmiel

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FREDDIE KRIVINE (1920 – 2005)

freddie krivineFreddie was, in 1972, one of the six Founder Trustees of the Israel Tennis Centers. He came to live in Israel, with his wife Shelagh, in 1984 and was immediately invited to become Director of Women’s Tennis. There isn’t a professional tennis player in Israel who does not credit some of the opportunities she had to the enthusiastic support and fund-raising abilities of Freddie. In 1992 he was elected President of the Israel Tennis Association; he was re-elected (uncontested) every other year until his death.

In 1998 he decided to focus on bringing many more Arab children into tennis and to create co-existence programmes for Jewish and Arab children. The charity he founded is now called the Freddie Krivine Foundation.

Each week, hundreds of Israeli Arab and Jewish youngsters are taught the game of tennis in a unique programme run by the Freddie Krivine Foundation.

Tennis School in Nazareth

Opening Day at the new Nazareth Tennis School (September 2006)

Created in 1998 to promote co-existence and equal opportunity through tennis, today the Foundation continues to encourage Arab children to play tennis in a variety of different programmes across the country, with new projects opening every year.

With grants from the Freddie Krivine Foundation, old courts are being refurbished and repainted. The newly resurfaced courts in Nazareth now make it the largest tennis school in the Israeli Arab community and one of four supported by the Freddie Krivine Foundation, the fifth will open in Sakhnine, home of Israel’s Premier League Arab-Jewish football team.

Each year the Foundation creates new co-existence programmes for Arab and Jewish children to train and play together. Coaching, social outings and sporting opportunities are part of a dynamic programme to build self-esteem, break down barriers and foster understanding. Mixed Arab and Jewish teams of talented players go on to more intensive coaching and play junior tournaments.

Jane Krivine

Jane Krivine, Director

Freddie’s daughter Jane is the director of the Foundation: “We work closely with the local councils in a number of Arab and Jewish communities. Our experienced trainers and coaches introduce young children to a new sport, and those with aptitude and enthusiasm are offered the chance to develop their skills. By the time they reach the age of 16, some of the youngsters will train for Assistant Coaching Certificates, returning to their community to teach a new generation of boys and girls in a sustainable educational cycle. We also give grants for kids to attend tennis camps and to train abroad. There is no shortage of real talent.”

Working with children, parents and educators, the Freddie Krivine Foundation enables
Israeli boys and girls of all backgrounds to train together and play together.


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FREDDIE KRIVINE FOUNDATION SCHOOLS

NAZARETH TENNIS SCHOOL has 150 children registered for year round coaching

JISR AL ZARKA TENNIS SCHOOL coaches 80 children

MAGHRAR TENNIS SCHOOL coaches 30 children

ABU GOSH TENNIS SCHOOL In Association with the Abu Gosh Community Centre, coaches 30 children

BEIT HANANYA currently coaches 50 Jewish and Arab children with plans to expand to 100 in 2010

OPENING SOON

SAKNIN, opening September 2009, will have 150 children registered

HAIFA, at the Christian Home Centre, will have 50 children registered

FREDDIE KRIVINE FOUNDATION
CO-EXISTENCE PROGRAMMES IN 2009
HAIFA REALI – OSSAFIA;  
CAESAREA – FARADEIS – JISSER EL ZARKA;    
ZICHRON YA’AKOV – FARADEIS;   MAGHRAR – CARMIEL;
ACRE; BEIT HANANYA – JISSER EL ZARKA – FARADEIS;
KEREM MAHARAL – FARADEIS;  
and starting late 2009
SDE BOKER – ABDE & ABU GOSH – MA’ALE HAHAMESHA   
HOW WE ENCOURAGE TALENTED PLAYERS
The Freddie Krivine Foundation supports an advanced programme with extra coaching for a group of exceptionally talented children at the Nazareth Tennis School. The Foundation also provides coaching and travel scholarships for exceptionally talented individual juniors.
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING & CERTIFIED ASSISTANT COACHES
The Foundation provides scholarships for professional tennis coach training at the Wingate Institute (the national sports training centre). In four years it has sponsored more than 25 players for professional and assistant coaching certificates.
SOCIAL TENNIS PROGRAMMES
CARMIEL RESIDENTIAL HOME FOR CHILDREN
Our Coaches

Danny Meder is the Project Manager of the Freddie Krivine Foundation. He coached with the Israel Tennis Centres for thirteen years and in 1999 he joined Haifa University as a tennis pro. That same year Freddie invited him to coach the first co-existence programme Caesarea-Jisr El Zarka/Faradeis. He still coaches at Haifa University, and the co-existence class of 1999 is still playing tennis together.

Fredddie Krivine Foundation coaches

  • Nachum Aksanov
  • Sayeed Amash
  • Tu’ama Amash
  • Radu’an Amash
  • Hisham Amury
  • Stefan Anconina
  • Alexander Baron
  • Basel Abu Djamam
  • Eran Dunk
  • Suleiman Hamed
    (Director: Nazareth Tennis School)
  • Samiha Hamed
  • Aya Itzhaki
  • Soubhi Jorban
  • Etti Levy
  • Duncan Orde
  • Shachar Perkiss
  • Mohammed Rash’wan
  • Stevie Rosenberg
  • Ron Steele, (Consultant: Nazareth Advanced Programme)
  • Motti Vodevos
  • Bracha Weisman
  • Hala Zahar
Blue Star
Nadine
Caesarea
Ruan Zubidate playing
national junior tournament
Nadine Fahoum former
Israel junior No. 1 (under 16)
The fledgling Caesarea-Jisr El Zarka/Faradeis co-existence group
(taken in 2000)

The Freddie Krivine Foundation targets are:

  • to create many more Arab-Jewish co-existence groups
  • to increase the number of Arab children currently
    playing in junior leagues each year
  • to enable more Arab children to represent their country
    on the international junior circuit
  • to create new tennis schools in the Arab community
  • to encourage more Arab tennis coaches into the programme

Nadine Fahoum and Freddie

Nadine Fahoum and Freddie Krivine
nadine plays
zubidate
 coexistence
Nadine Fahoum
Ruan Zubidate
Caesarea coexistence group
Emil Libis

Talented five year old Emil Libis at the Nazareth Tennis School (2007)

Tax-exempt contributions from the United States, Canada and Great Britain can be made through the New Israel Fund, with offices in Washington, Toronto and London.

Any cheques should be made payable to “New Israel Fund”, with a cover note to explain it is destined for the Freddie Krivine Foundation and marked as donor-advised.

The Freddie Krivine Foundation charity (“amuta”) is registered in Israel, No. 580429009

$65,000 will build a brand new two court tennis facility in an Arab community in Israel.

The Foundation built its first tennis court in the coastal village of Jisr El Zarka in 2002 and in 2006 it funded a complete refurbishment of the courts at the Nazareth Tennis School.

Sakhnin, the home of Premier League mixed Jewish-Arab football team, is the site of the most recent tennis facility, with two courts and three designated mini-tennis courts

$21,000 is the cost of maintaining a three year co-existence programme for 24 children. Coaching twice a week during the academic year, with social events, family picnics and outings.

Zubidate

Ruan Zubidate from the Bedouin village of Bizmat Tiv’on, ends her match on a warm note.

$7,500 is the cost of refurbishing an old unused sports court in order to create a single court tennis facility in an Israel Arab town or village. .

$5,000 are the matching funds, with contributions from the parents, to send five children to join children from all over the country for an annual tennis summer camp abroad.

$5,000 is required for a junior player to compete in five tournaments abroad, covering the cost of air fare, a travel coach and expenses

$1,500 is the cost of a tutor ball machine

$100 is the cost of 60 tennis balls or a new mini-tennis kit or a new racket or two pairs of tennis shoes or four new kits

Whether your contribution is to build a new court or to buy new tennis balls, all donations are received with gratitude.

 

Working with children, parents and educators, the Freddie Krivine Foundation enables
Israeli boys and girls of all backgrounds to train together and play together.

 

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Jane Krivine janekrivine@yahoo.co.uk

Mobile telephone from abroad 00972.547-405-047
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Jane Krivine
Freddie Krivine Foundation
34a HaShahar
Binyamina 30500
ISRAEL