Orot Bamidbar Projects

Eilat is known at the city of "sin" and many youngsters come down to the city in order to unwind and break free of their regular framework.  For many years, we have been working with these youngsters and getting them into supportive and appropriate programs. 

Jewish Youth are the strength of the Jewish people.  For more than twenty years, we have been working with the youth in Eilat, in conjunction with El Ami, in both formal and extra-curricular educational projects. 

With assistance from the Pratt Foundation, we have set up an interesting model in which youth work to help needy people in Eilat.  They give both one-off and regular help in renovating and painting apartments of the needy and elderly population of the city. 

We thank Mr. Pete Adler, the Israel representative of the Pratt Foundation for his assistance in this project.

The Family Center has been in operation for the past four years since the death of our beloved student Noam Meirson hy"d in the Second Lebanon War.  Thanks to funding from the Toronto Friends of the Yeshiva, we are expanding our projects at the Center.7

The main focus of the Noam Meirson Family Center has been on preparing couples for their wedding and on family education.

 Thanks to funding from the Friedburg Fund – The Toronto Friends of the Yeshiva, we are expanding to include several new projects:

• We will train a number of counselors to specialize in marriage guidance.  They will study for a degree in social work and will then specialize in this field.  The students will be mentored by an expert in the field who will come to Eilat on a monthly basis to supervise them.
• Single Mothers – we plan to help these mothers with several new projects:
  • Help their children with homework
  • Parenting workshops focusing specifically on single mothers.
  • Help them find employment and enroll their children in after-school programs 

 We are grateful to our dear friends Dov and Nancy Friedberg for their unwavering, long-standing support.

For the past few years there has been a strong connection forged between the Eilat campus of the Ben Gurion University and the Yeshiva.

 This year we will be starting regular evening learning sessions with university students on campus.  This project is being jointly run with the "Jewish Soul" organization.  Yeshiva students will be on campus every evening and students who participate regularly in the learning sessions will receive an annual stipend.  Every few weeks, we will hold weekend seminars at one of the local hotels for university students who show serious interest in this program.  Once a week, a guest lecturer will come to give an interactive session to students.

 We are grateful to Rabbi Ilani, the director of "Jewish Soul" for the cooperation with the Yeshiva.