NEWS ANNOUNCEMENTS

Nazareth Open October 23 - 30, 2010

October sees a new $10,000 ITF women's tournament. In memory of Freddie Krivine the matches will be played in the attractive setting of Nazareth's tennis school in the grounds of the YMCA. This will be the first international professional sports event to be held in the historic city of Nazareth. For more information Nazareth Open 2010

Israel Lottery Grant awarded to the Foundation

The Freddie Krivine Foundation now has its own base; two superbly refurbished courts at the Jewish community of Beit Hananya with a clear view of the Arab town of Jisr El Zarka only a couple of kilometers away. This will be the home of a permanent coexistence programme between the two communities. Funded in part by a generous Lottery grant of more than $30,000, the project is in association with the local council of Beit Hananya.

Two tennis charities collaborate across the seas

The long awaited link between probably the world's largest and most exciting tennis programme for disadvantaged youth, Tenacity, and the Freddie Krivine Foundation takes place this summer. Three of our coaches, Mohamad Rashwan and Said Amash from Jisr El Zarka and Basil Abu Janeb from Maghrar are among 250 volunteer coaches on a summer tennis & education programme in Boston Mass. They travelled to Boston with a grant from the Freddie Krivine Foundation and return mid August.

FREDDIE KRIVINE (1920 – 2005)

In 1972 Freddie was one of the six Founder Trustees of the Israel Tennis Centers. He came to live in Israel with his wife Shelagh in 1984 when he was invited to become Director of Women’s Tennis.

All Israel's top women players over the past 20 years acknowledge the huge role Freddie played in helping them achieve their success.

In 1992 Freddie was elected President of the Israel Tennis Association.

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. In 2005, the charity he founded was renamed the Freddie Krivine Foundation.

Tennis Schools & Coexistence Programmes

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 refurbished and repainted. The newly resurfaced courts in Nazareth now make it the largest tennis school in the Israeli Arab community and one of eight created by the Freddie Krivine Foundation.

Every year the Foundation runs inter-school tennis 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, Director

Freddie’s daughter Jane is 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".

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TENNIS SCHOOLS

Overlooking the sea, north of Caesarea, the JISR AL ZARKA TENNIS SCHOOL was built in 2002 thanks to a donation from the Robert Gavron Charitable Trust. The one court facility with hitting wall holds classes four times a week for a total of 80 children.

ABU GOSH TENNIS SCHOOL In Association with the Abu Gosh Community Centre, coaches 30 children, also on a one court facility refurbished by the Foundation in 2005.

MAGHRAR TENNIS SCHOOL opened in 2006, in memory of the late Alan Weissman, currently with a regular group of 30 children on a one-court facility.

NAZARETH TENNIS SCHOOL was refurbished 2006 with funds from the Freddie Krivine Foundation and a UK based charitable foundation. In 2008 three more courts were added, thanks to a donation from the late Irwin Green, of Baco Raton, Florida. The school has 180 children subscribed.

Football-mad SAKHNIN now has a TENNIS SCHOOL built and equipped by the Foundation in the spring of 2009. A two-court facility with three marked out mini-tennis courts, plans are for at least 100 children in 2010. The project was carried out with matching funds from the Municipality of Sakhnin.

The two courts at the Moshav of BEIT HANANYA were refurbished and equipped by the Foundation in November 2009, with a grant of $32,500 from the Israel Lottery. Currently with 50 Jewish and Arab children & plans to expand to 100 children in 2010; this project is a partnership with the Moshav of Beit Hananya.

The one court facility at Haifa, at the Christian Community Centre, opened in November 2009 for 50 children; this was in partnership with the Christian Community Centre and the Haifa Municipality.

OPENING SOON

Two courts at KFAR YEFIYA, adjacent to NAZARETH, opened in 2009 with equipment from the Freddie Krivine Foundation, the school is fully operational and the courts will be resurfaced in the course of 2011.

Plans are in place for the tenth Freddie Krivine Foundation tennis school to open soon in the famous Druze village of Daliat HaCarmel, this is in association with a private donor and the Municipality of Daliet HaCarmel.

CO-EXISTENCE PROGRAMMES

Annual coexistence programmes for 4th grade (9/10) held March/April

HAIFA REALI – OSSAFIA

ZICHRON YA'AKOV - FARADEIS

MAGHRAR - CARMIEL

KEREM MAHARAL - FARADEIS

Year round coexistence programmes

CAESAREA – FARADEIS – JISSER EL ZARKA

BEIT HANANYA – JISSER EL ZARKA – FARADEIS;

Future programmes

SDE BOKER – ABDE (Negev)

TALENT SPOTTING

All year round the Freddie Krivine Foundation supports exceptionally talented juniors with grants for extra coaching, equipment and travel grants.

TENNIS TRAINING FOR COACHES AND PLAYERS

The Freddie Krivine Foundation provides scholarships for professional tennis coach training and junior players are offered grants to take Assistant Coaching Courses offered by the Israel Tennis Association.

Since 2006, the Freddie Krivine Foundation has provided grants for more than 20 teenagers to gain Assistant Coached Certificates and 10 adults have receivd grants to earn professional tennis coaching certificates at the national sports centre, the Wingate Institute.

Brother and sister Fahoum and Nadine Fahoum are currently studying in at a college in Virginia, US, on tennis scholarships; both received ongoing support for their coaching and travel from the age of 15, and are a great credit to the Foundation.

The next youngster to be coached in a US college is Dunja Al Sous, a Palestian from Ramallah, now 17, she received support from the Foundation from the age of 11. We wish her much luck at her college in California.

SOCIAL TENNIS PROGRAMMES

Since 1999 the Freddie Krivine Foundation has funded weekly tennis lessons for a class of disabled children resident at the CARMIEL INSTITUTE.

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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. Coaches are either engaged ddirectly by the Foundation, or by the individual tennis programmes

Sayeed Amash
Radu’an Amash
Hisham Amury
Basel Abu Djamam
Eran Dunk
Suleiman Hamed (Director: Nazareth Tennis School)
Samiha Hamed
Aya Itzhaki
Etti Levy
Shachar Perkiss
Mohammed Rash’wan
Stevie Rosenberg
Ron Steele (Consultant)


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 Krivine


Nadine Fahoum	Ruan Zubidate	Caesarea/Jisser El Zarka team

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.

$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.

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.

SEE US IN ACTION!

an 8 minute introduction to the work
of the Freddie Krivine Foundation

Send us an email

Jane Krivine janekrivine@yahoo.co.uk

Mobile telephone from abroad 00972.547-405-047
Land line from abroad 00972.775-503-348

or write to:

Jane Krivine
Freddie Krivine Foundation
34a HaShahar Street
Binyamina 30500
ISRAEL