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The Galila foundation has partnered with the Matte Asher Regional Council in establishing the new Medical Center serving the community of two neighboring Kibbutzim, Masaryk and Ein Hamifratz as well as the Regional Schools located adjacent to this facility. This joint venture includes the Clalit Health Fund, the Matte Asher Regional Council as well as […]
During the past year, Rafi Bouganim, a Beren Fellow, worked to expand the values-orientated “Aharai” program to three groups of 30 high school students each in the Western Galilee region – Ma’alot, Shlomi and Kfar Veradim. In addition to their scheduled activities, the groups were also engaged in community programs and enrichment classes – all […]
New Library in Kiryat Bialik Galila Foundation is happy to announce on the completion of the renovation project of the Municipal library in Kiryat Bialik. The dedication ceremony for the renovated and refurbished Archie & Marjorie Sherman Municipal Library in Kiryat Bialik took place on October 24th. The Minister of Culture & Sports, Mrs. Limor […]
Docu Mail Project – Year II The Fifth Question Program This year the Docu mail program is a connection between Amirim Junior High school in Kfar Vradim and Hyman Brand Hebrew Academy in Kansas City. The prime objective of the program this year is to create a channel of communication that will facilitate dialog between the […]
The “fifth question” is a values-based, educational initiative dealing with Jewish identity and making the connection between Israeli nationalism and the Holocaust. This project enables the participants to formulate their memory and test their individual and group national identity and how the Holocaust impacts their lives living in ta Jewish, democratic State. This initiative is […]
The Galila foundation equips and supports enrichment activities in the centers for those children at-risk identified by the Mazra’a municipality welfare department. The kids come to the center every day after school for hot lunch, help with homework and enrichment activities. In 2008, this center for children was fully refurbished by the Clore Israel Foundation. […]
A new, pilot project, supporting a group of high-functioning autistic young adults, integrated into the community, has been launched by the “Avnei Derech”, Milestone Association. This project, in conjunction with the National Insurance Institute and is supported by the Zarrow family foundation through Galila. The group of young adults will live, work or study in […]
The idea of the “Reaching out” project began six months ago when I met with Eddie Dangoor who had recently lost his beloved wife Tova Rauchberger to cancer. We deliberated for months to find an apt way to memorialize Tova until the day I met up with Mika Webber, the programs director of the Kibbutz […]
Galila Association supported the second year course in professional makeup for teenage girls in Kiryat Bialik. The course is designed to give teenage girls professional knowledge as a base for professional integration in the beauty world. The course began in October 2013 and ended in April of 2014. Weekly sessions were held in the multipurpose […]
This is the third year in which Galila Foundation supports “Graduates tour the Galilee” The program is a social initiative of Dr. Nili Gal-Yam who participates in the Beren Fellows program of the Galila Foundation. The Graduates program enables the graduates of the gifted school, who finishes the activities for gifted students in the 9th […]
At these days a professional training course for women in the field of makeup and beauty at the “Erez College” has ended. The course is a specialized course that was built with the director of the welfare department of Shlomi. The course consisted of professional training in makeup, classes on the use of computers and […]
This December, in a very moving ceremony with dozens of children, teachers and other guests the Mini Pitch court in Galim School was dedicated. The ribbon was cut by the Head of Regional Council Mr. Yoram Israeli together with the school principle and a representative of the students. The new court was built for the […]
The Elderly Center in Shlomi is a key facility serving the needs of over 100 elderly Holocaust survivors who reside in the town. This day activities Center, under the management of Luda Haskelevitch, has evolved into a most vibrant club for the elderly who are transported to and from this Center every morning and late […]
The Galila Foundation is partner to the establishment of a center for volunteers serving the multiple needs of the diverse rural communities under the municipal umbrella of the Merom Hagalil Regional Council. Last summer, the Galila Foundation assisted in financing a summer camp for children with special needs from Merom Hagalil. The camp experience was […]
On Tuesday, May 12th 2015, the newly-renovated and refurbished youth center in the neighborhood of Tsur Shalom in Kiryat Bialik, was officially opened at a dedication ceremony that took place at the location in the presence of the donor – Dame Vivien Duffield and the trustees of the Clore Israel Foundation. This youth club is […]
he ceremony took place on May 28, 2015 with the graduate students of this program at the historic home in the coastal town of Nahariya of the region’s leading philanthropist and activist, Raya Strauss. At this event, all of the graduate students, residents of the Western Galilee, chose to improve their lives by developing careers […]
Located in a pastoral beachside setting adjacent to the northern Israel coastal town of Akko, the “Nirim” Youth village is a last resort for at-risk teens before their potential deterioration into a life of crime, drugs and exclusion from the normative society. In 2014, a pilot project at the village called “Shirat Hayam” (“song of […]
The ‘Nature Accessible To All’ (NATA) Project As part of the partnership between the Galila Foundation and the ‘Orot Hagalil’ (Galilee Lights), a new initiative aimed at the special needs community entitled ‘Nature Accessible To All’ will be launched in the Fall of 2015. This breakthrough program will target a group of 40 men and […]
We’ve just finished the first two-week session of our summer tennis camp. 34 kids, aged 6-15 in four different levels, joined us. The quality of the camp was enhanced by our staff of four coaches, a camp coordinator, our groundskeeper and Shaul Zohar the director. The camp operated 5 days a week, from 8 a.m. […]
Recently, 20 girls of Ma’ale Yosef Regional Council completed a course of Nail building. The course was held at the Erez College and was taught by an instructor of the Sigal Tadmor professional makeup school. The purpose of the course was to provide girls participating in the project ‘girls contribute to the community’, a project […]
These days we are summarizing the end of year’s activity in the groups of ‘Acharia!’. 3 groups were active during the year directed by Rafi Buganim. Teenagers from Shlomi, Ma’alot and Kfar Vradim, worked on social and educational activities in order to produce young leadership and encourage social involvement. As a finale, they left for […]
Simcha Layeled Association accompanies children with chronic illnesses or disabilities and their families and includes activities in various areas – Big Brother/Sister program The flagship project of the association is to accompany and assist sick children and children with special needs throughout the year. The project provides sick children a social supporting framework and accompanies […]
Galila foundation has complied for its second year to assist Marom Hagalil community center in funding the wings summer camp. This is the second year that the community center is holding a summer camp for special needs to enable them to go out to an educational framework which is fun, different and liberating, as well […]
This is its 7th year that Galila Foundation is proud to participate in this special gesture, and give out gift cards to Holocaust survivors for Rosh Hashana. It is our way to say ‘thank you’ to these special people who gave so much to our nation. We thank our past in order to look forward to our future. Although many are needy, […]
“Galim” school is a regional school in the Western Galilee for children with special needs ages 6 – 12. Many of the students who finish their studies at “Galim” school return and integrate as part of the mainstream education, an integration that would not have been possible without the unique studies of “Galim”. With an […]
In a moving ceremony in the presence of the President of the Beren Sea Foundation, the leadership of “HaShomer HaHadash”, representatives of the Galila Foundation and of course the apprenticeship of young leadership in the Ein Kamunim, inaugurated the new residential and classroom donated by the Galila Foundation by a designated gift from the Beren […]
Tzur Shalom neighborhood in Kiryat Bialik is a hard life one, which concentrates the recent waves of immigration from Ethiopia. Throughout the year, the welfare and education departments of the municipality work to address the many needs of the community, needs which grow significantly during the summer in which many teens return from boarding schools […]
“Tabor” Club house is a warm home which acts as a replacement of a home to 15 children aged 6-12. The children all come from families which dysfunction, that can’t provide the children with a safe, secure and normative home. The children come to the club right after school, get a loving hug from the […]
They came off the bus one by one very slowly, looking around the beautiful scenery of the sea and entering the inviting hall that was prepared beautifully at the Sea life hotel at Nahariya. 150 holocaust survivors from Acre, Nahariya, Safed and Ma’alot arrived at noon on Monday, 04.04.2016 to celebrate the beginning of spring […]
The eve of Passover the wonderful people of Simcha Layeled organized activities for children in a hospital in Nahariya. Galila Foundation supports the activities of simcha Layeled at the Nahariya Hospital for the benefit of children and their families in the northern as part of the goals to improve the quality of life for residents […]
