The council comprises youth from the different sectors: religious, secular, Jewish, Arab, Druze and a Bedouin[broken anchor] representative.
The representatives mostly participate in committees dealing with youth-related issues such as: children's rights, violence, delinquency and youngsters at risk - cut off from mainstream youth.
This method ensures both fair representation at every level for students from every locale and background, and easy and swift communication and co-operation between the various councils.
In 2006 graduates of the Israel's national student and youth council founded an association named Bematana.
The association's mission is to promote young leaders who are elected as representatives in student and youth councils in Israel.
Right to vote in elections to the local authority - from age 17 Required to establish a municipal committee on advancing the status of the child.
Due to the National Council's involvement in the Knesset committees and in the Israeli public discourse, in 2000 it managed to bring forward the enactment of an Israeli Pupils' Rights Law (חוק זכויות התלמיד) for the approval of the Knesset, which prohibit discrimination of students for sectarian reasons in admission to or expulsion from an educational institution, in establishment of separate educational curricula or holding of separate classes in the same educational institution, and rights and obligations of pupils.
[3] This law has been enforced by the Supreme Court of Israel, prompting protests from Orthodox families who objected to sending their children to integrated schools.
[4] In addition, the Israeli Pupils' Rights Law required that every educational institution in Israel would establish a student council.
In 2002, the National student and youth council chairman Koby Tsoref was invited to light one of the Yom Ha'atzma'ut (Israel's Independence Day) twelve torches traditionally kindled in the annual national Yom Ha'atzma'ut ceremony, marking the organization's contribution to the Israeli youth and the organization's part in promoting their rights.
Among other things, the National Council initiated an amendment to the Municipalities Ordinance Act which lowered the age of the electors in the elections of the local authorities from 18 to 17.