The Center’s Goals

The Mandel Center for Leadership in the Negev was established by the Mandel Foundation in cooperation with the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in 2004. The Center’s vision is to achieve a marked increase in the number of leaders in the Negev, who work according to a value-based vision and who can lead institutions and public systems towards the application of this vision.  

We aspire to contribute to the establishment of a entrepreneurial leadership that brings about change in the public sector and in the third sector, towards the sustenance of a strong civil society. 

We aspire to live in a prosperous Negev in which there are improved, dialogic relationships between the Jewish and Bedouin populations.