The citizen's association Youth Educational Forum (YEF) is a non governmental, non political and non profit organization which was established in June 1999.Several centers throughout the country operate as part of YEF, which conduct activities from the main programs of YEF: Debate, Street Law and Student's program, as well as separate projects covering topics such as youth and education, human rights and their protection, brain drain etc. YEFs' mission is to offer the students, high-school students, their teachers and parents, opportunities for active and argumentative participation in public discussion for issues of their individual as well as community interest. This way they can contribute towards establishment of an open and democratic society.