The Galilee Society

What The Galilee Society does

The Galilee Society is an Israeli non-profit organization founded in 1981 and headquartered in Shafa 'amr in the Galilee region. According to its firmographic profile, it conducts applied research and runs community projects across three thematic areas: health, environment, and social development. The organization's stated beneficiaries are local communities, and its activities combine field-level project delivery with research output typical of a community-anchored applied research institute.

The organization operates with a small team of 11-50 employees and maintains a public web presence at gal-soc.org; however, the website was not accessible during data collection and returned only a verification/loading page, so no operational specifics — programmatic detail, project portfolio, publications, governance, leadership, funding sources, or partnership roster — could be verified from first-party material. No subsidiaries, investments, management team, regulatory actions, M&A activity, or restructuring events are recorded in the input data, and no technology stack, products, or pricing model is documented. The organization is classified as private and operates as a non-profit entity.

Evidence base for this profile is thin. Firmographic fields (name, founding year, location, sector, headcount band) are supported, but operational, financial, and strategic details are not available in the supplied data. Any investment-relevant inference about program scale, funding stability, governance quality, or growth direction cannot be grounded in the input and should be treated as a data gap rather than an assumption.

Name

The Galilee Society

Website

https://gal-soc.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1981

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

The Galilee Society is an Israeli non-profit founded in 1981 in Shafa 'amr that conducts applied research and community projects in health, environment, and social development, serving local communities in the Galilee region with a small 11-50 person team.

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akta.pro rank

Product category

Non-profit Research and Community Development

NAICS

Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities (54172), Civic and Social Organizations (813410), Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations (813)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300), Services-Commercial Physical & Biological Research (8731)

akta.pro primary industry

Global Health Research, Evidence & Technical Assistance Organizations (HLAJAKAN)

akta.pro secondary industries

Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH) (BPAGABAC), Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus & Resilience Programming (BPADAEAK), Maternal, Newborn, Child & Adolescent Health (MNCAH) NGOs (HLAJAKAG)

Keywords

• Applied social research
• Community development programs
• Public health research
• Environmental sustainability projects
• Civil society organization

Headquarters

HQ city

Shafa `amr

HQ country

Israel

HQ region

Middle East

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Others

Core offering

The Galilee Society is a non-profit organization that conducts applied research and implements community projects in the fields of health, environment, and social development. It serves as a regional research and civil-society body based in Shafa'amr, operating programs targeted at communities in the Galilee area of northern Israel. Its outputs include research findings and on-the-ground community development initiatives delivered by a small staff of researchers and project staff.

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Functional benefit

Products and services

• Applied Research in Health, Environment, and Social Development Applied research studies in the fields of public health, environmental sustainability, and social development, conducted for public-sector, donor, philanthropic, and academic partners and serving communities in the Galilee region of northern Israel.
• Community Development Projects Field-level community projects in health, environment, and social development, implemented in Arab and mixed communities of the Galilee region in partnership with public agencies, donors, and civil-society organizations.

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Technology focussed No

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Broad incumbents

• Shatil (New Israel Fund): Capacity-building and grants arm for Israeli civil society organizations. Comparable in supporting community development work and overlaps with The Galilee Society in target beneficiary base.
• Physicians for Human Rights – Israel: Israeli NGO combining health rights advocacy with applied research and direct services. Comparable in the health-research nexus but operates at significantly greater scale and scope.
• Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI): Israel's leading civil and human rights organization with broader national scope. Overlaps with The Galilee Society in advocacy and applied research on minority rights but at much larger scale.

Emerging players

• Bimkom – Planners for Planning Rights: Israeli non-profit using research and advocacy on planning rights for underserved communities — partial overlap with The Galilee Society's environment and social development applied research.

Regional players

• Arab Jewish Community Center: Israeli non-profit operating in the shared society space with applied community programming. Comparable mission and target community with smaller, more localized footprint.

Direct peers

• Givat Haviva: Israeli non-profit focused on Jewish-Arab understanding and shared society programs across Israel, with an applied/community programming structure analogous to The Galilee Society.
• Abraham Fund Initiatives: Bilateral Israeli non-profit running coexistence programming, research, and advocacy for Jewish-Arab equality in Israel. Comparable geographic focus, mission overlap, and NGO structure.
• Adva Center for Information on Equality and Social Policy: Israeli social policy research organization producing evidence on equality, social justice, and public policy — overlapping with The Galilee Society's applied research mandate in social development.
• Sikkuy: Israeli non-profit advancing equality and shared society between Jewish and Arab citizens through policy research and community projects. Highly comparable to The Galilee Society in its Israeli Arab-focused research-plus-implementation model.
• Negev Coexistence Forum for Civil Equality: Arab-Jewish NGO working on equality and shared society in Israel's periphery. Comparable mandate around minority community empowerment and applied social programming.

Market position

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Competitive moat3 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

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