Meet our graduates Moshe and his wife Rachel, and their two children, Talia and Shalev Daniel and Moshe Szanders recall their adolescent years in Yiftach, and their accomplishment in returning to their family and community, to fulfill their potential. “We grew up in an ultra-Orthodox household of American Ba’alei Teshuvah – returnees—who made …
Here is a program Every year, Neve Sraya Youth Village in the Jordan Valley welcomes adolescents who have fallen outside the traditional education and societal structures. These young individuals arrive at Neve Sraya before their situations escalate into dangerous paths of crime and violence. Unable to adapt to conventional high schools and Yeshivas, …
Meet a Director Rami Cohen with staff members from Machol Rami Cohen is the leader of the Machol residential program for young adolescent women in Timora. The program is based in the Jordan Valley. It has achieved outstanding results that give hope and opportunity to young women who have suffered many traumas, the most severe …
Meet Timora’s Visionary Founder Ariel Sokoloff Ariel Sokoloff grew up in a national religious community. He says that in third grade he knew that he wanted to be an educator. Motivated and determined, Ariel served in the IDF’s world-renowned Search and Rescue Air Force Unit, and then received his degree in education from The …
The Idealistic Young Man Behind the New Culinary Entrepreneurship Program Elad Schreier Elad grew up in a religious-Zionist home in Kiryat Shmona, a city on the Lebanese border. After IDF service as an officer in an elite combat unit, Elad received his undergraduate degree in psychology from the Open University. “I was a social …
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Building a New Home for Yiftach’s Students New dormitories at Yiftach – architectural rendering Yiftach’s students live in run-down dormitories built over 40 years ago (in what remains of an abandoned military encampment on the Israel-Jordan border). For them, and for future students, we are determined to create a modern, efficient facility that enables …
At Timora’s Neve Sraya Youth Village, the staff focused on teaching about healthy sexuality and coping with the challenges of adolescence, along with the challenges of studying for midterm matriculation exams. There was a performance of “Maayan Haim – a Presentation of Protection and Sexuality” by Yedidya Ankari, who summed up the meeting, “I thought …
There is nothing like reading what Yiftach students are writing in order to understand the high quality of Yiftach’s Residential School. In these trying times the effort that Yiftach’s staff makes to create a normal routine and make professional solutions in the shadow of the Corona is proving itself. We can surely relate to the …
Our staff training program for educational therapists, for which we seek your kind support, seeks to enhance Timora’s professional and stable staff to be able to cope with the grind that instructive therapy for youth at risk entails over a long timeframe. We must instill in our educational therapists the confidence to obtain theoretical and …
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Yiftach is a refuge from the past and a new beginning for at-risk adolescent Orthodox boys who dropped out of religious secondary schools. Lacking a supportive framework and educational alternatives and feeling alienated from the community, many of them end up on the street. Yiftach’s supportive framework includes personalized education, an individual and social growth …
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