The Raz-Ram Foundation is a unique artistic organization whose aims are to develop, and promote values in the fields of culture, art, and heritage throughout Israel, amongst orphaned children and youth.

The Raz-Ram Foundation is a unique artistic organization whose aims are to encourage, develop, and promote values in the fields of culture, art, and heritage throughout the population of Israel, and especially amongst orphaned children and youth. The Foundation runs projects that entail creativity and tutoring, as well as activities aimed at conciliation and "joining hearts" across Jewish, Arab, Druse, and Beduin sectors through the medium of art. The Foundation was conceived and initiated by the brothers Aviv and Arik Livnat, musicians and sons of the late Israeli Air Force pilot Arnon Livnat who was killed in the Six Day War. The various activities of the Foundation are intended to grant orphans an artistic training either within an individual framework or a "Seeds of Creation" group, together with a personal relationship with a tutor in a mutual field of art. Psychologists believe that art-based activities help to mold the grief process: Subtle Mourning. We are interested in enabling this process and putting it into practice among the orphaned children and youth who have experienced trauma and loss. The Foundation initiates and operates two principal frameworks of activity; within the context of the "creativity project" the Foundation operates a nationwide complex of individual tutoring in a wide variety of artistic fields. The Foundation keeps track of the creativity pairs and awards them a "creativity grant" for a year of joint activities. Within the context of the other field of activities as part of the "Seeds of Creation" series, the Foundation integrates creativity groups for artistic and community work throughout the country. The Foundation wishes through its work with orphaned children and youth to generate a flourishing creative communal fabric which will enrich and strengthen the cultural and artistic life of the community. In addition to this activity, the Foundation wishes to encourage, to foster, and to support young creators and original Israeli works dealing with aspects of commemoration and personal as well as collective remembrance in all artistic fields; it does this by giving artistic and professional counseling, and by supporting original productions, etc. In May, 2002, the Raz-Ram Foundation was chosen to represent the State of Israel in the "Children's Summit" organized by the UN General Assembly in New York. Representatives of the Foundation participated in the various sessions and unfolded the organization's activities which aroused great interest among many international organizations and bodies. International cooperation has been intensified and new enterprises have been initiated, including an international conference planned for the Galilee under the heading "The Galilee - a Culture of Remembrance and Peace." The conference will inaugurate the "Garden of the Spring" project which the Foundation is activating this year, and during which a memorial and heritage garden is being planned and fashioned in the Galilee. The Raz-Ram Foundation is a registered non-profit association and operates as such. Contributions and assistance from government and municipal bodies, as well as the help offered by volunteers, enable the Foundation to carry out its activities . The association is a public institution licensed to receive contributions under Section 46.