The annual conference on the issue of coping with violence in Israeli society, is held by sponsorship of the partners of the national 'City without Violence' program: The Ministry of Public Security led by Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch, The Friendship Fund led by Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, together with Eilat municipality, which initiated the program and hosts the event, and in partnership with the government ministries who participate in the program.

The Eilat conference serves, as it has been every year since its foundations in 2005, as a platform for discussing the problem of violence in Israel society and the ways of coping with it; as it aims to create a social and professional gathering of all those who participate in this field, and to emphasize the idea that a partnership of all the participating factors is the condition for change.

The conference is held in the presence of public officials, ministers, Knesset members and the conferences' honorary president, former Supreme Court judge Meir Shamgar; and it provides a platform for the top specialists and professionals in the field of violence. During the conference (with the exception of general assembly days); the conference area hosts the Learning and Knowledge Fair, as well as presentations of the subject of violence, workshop, exhibitions and more.

The 5th Eilat conference, which took place between June 9-10, 2010; was the biggest conference to be held thus far. The conference drew about 1400 people including ministers, Knesset members, government ministries representatives, heads of authorities, officers of the police and the IPS, leading academic figures, representatives of organizations and associations, and media personas. The conference included 15 lecture panels dealing with "The complexity of the violence's phenomenon"; an elaborate knowledge fair and teenagers plays on the subject of violence.
List of lectures and the Conference Panels' videos (in Hebrew)

The 4th Eilat Conference took place between May 21-22, 2008, in the Herods Hotel in Eilat, and was attended by over 1, 100 people. The conference focused on the issue of "Violence in our everyday life", and included 12 lecture panels; a knowledge fair which exhibited over 35 various organizations, an art exhibition and plays on the subject of violence.