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Cultural Diversity – Cultural Integration ? Presenters Dr. Naomi Jaffe, National Superintendent for Art Theatre Studies, Ministry of Education Culture Sport, State of Israel Dr. Yael Shai, National Superintendent for Music Education, Ministry of Education Culture Sport, State of Israel ? ? Since many centuries Jews immigrated to the Land of Israel. This trend increased considerable in the second part of the 20th Century when groups from all over the world, West and East settled in Israel. Each of these ethnic groups carried a rich cultural inheritance that includes the arts, which appeared in everyday life. The result is a diversity and rich mosaic of cultures, including art, music, theatre, film and dance. One of the questions to be discussed in this presentation is, how the educational system in Israel deals with the fascinating encounter between the cultural and artistic capacity that the student brought from home, including the exposure to the mass media and between the subjects studied in the schools formal curricula. Another question is what and even whether there is a cultural outcome that crystallizes among the students who are the future generation. The answers to these questions will be given through the various art domains and mainly music and art. These answers attribute also to the understanding of the local culture that inevitably is developing in the school system. The classes in Israeli schools are generally heterorganic and represent the diversity society in Israel. The curricula in the mandatory subject matters try to give proper answers to national and international standards. Among the optional subject matters the arts play an important role and examples will be presented in this paper, mainly from the domain of art and music. ? Art An artwork is one of the human communication forms that are performed through a structure of visual signs and images organized in a composition on a surface. The display of the artworks in museums galleries by