INVENTORY
The inventory is a record of Israel's intangible cultural heritage and the cultural practices associated with its communities. The inventory helps us better understand the communities of Israel and identify specific cultural resources within communities. Intangible cultural heritage includes the performing arts, oral traditions, social practices, religious traditions, knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe, and craftsmanship and its history. Through the documentation of Intangible Cultural Heritage, we can identify various cultural elements and compile a comprehensive inventory of intangible cultural heritage elements. This includes exploring traditional craftsmanship and its history, which helps to better understand social practices, rituals, festive events, and traditional knowledge of nature. The cultural inventory is a starting point for cultural planning. This inventory process helps us better understand communities and cultural resources. Developing the cultural inventory can be a community tool, a way to get to know community members, to identify their special skills and talents, and to bring them into closer connection with programs and services in the heart of the community.
Traditional craftsmanship is about the living tradition and the skills passed from person to person over generations. This includes clothing, pottery, musical instruments, and religious items.
The performing arts range from traditional vocal and instrumental music to folk dance and theatre. This includes musical instruments, masks, costumes, and other body decorations.
This includes traditional ecological and environmental knowledge, know-how, skills, practices, and representations that communities develop through their interaction with nature.
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Social practices include festive events, religious traditions, religious festivals, culinary traditions, official holidays, rituals, weddings, funerals, traditional games, and Sports.
Communities are groups of practitioners who create, maintain, and transmit living traditions, oral expressions, social practices, and traditional craftsmanship from generation to generation
Individuals, groups, and communities in Israel are invited to contribute to the research and provide information to the database. Just fill in the form on the Inventory page and send it via the application for Registration / Recognition. Community members are encouraged to contribute to the database by submitting the recognition form below.​