Zoharim Youth Village
Zoharim Youth Village is a boarding school and a pioneer in this sphere, as it accepts Orthodox youth.
The Zoharim Youth Village provides a safe home and stable environment for at-risk Orthodox boys who dropped out of the Orthodox educational system and were abandoned by their family and community. Students at the Zoharim Youth Village receive education, a warm environment and emotional support, and they learn practical professions such as carpentry, agriculture and therapeutic horseback riding.
Foster Family Programme
One of the most important projects to be incorporated at our centre is the Foster Family Programme. In this project, every foster family looks after twelve children and teenagers.
They all live together, where the foster carers provide practical and emotional support to those children in order to help them thrive and build the skills that they would require for adulthood. The uniqueness of this programme is that the care-givers live together with all twelve children and young adults, rather than placing them in a boarding school.
Migdal Ohr Educational Institutions
Migdal Ohr serves as an important educational institution for 6,000 children, who came from troubled and disadvantaged families.
Migdal Ohr provides these children help and support through professional staff, such as specialised therapists, teachers and social workers. Since this institution serves as a home for those children, our staff are entirely devoted to those children needs at all times, seven days a week.
Cooking up a Future
"Cooking Up a Future" provides Migdal Ohr’s students with the outstanding opportunity to train for a profession which is currently in high demand by the tourism industry in Israel. Furthermore, considering Migdal Ohr's strong connection with the IDF, students graduating from the project will have the opportunity to enlist in the IDF as chefs.
The programme has received approval from the Ministries of Education and of Industry and Trade, therefore allowing participants to take the matriculation examination in the field of tourism and hotel management, as well as receiving a certificate as a "Level 1 Chef" from the Ministry of Industry and Trade.
The programme is now hosted on the Migdal Ohr campus at Migdal ha'Emek in the newly built recreation complex. Facilities at the complex include two workshops (one meat and one dairy), with twelve workstations in each. Each workstation has an oven, electric stove-top, work surface, sink and utensils (an assortment of knives, bowls, ladles, pots etc.). The workstations are designed to serve two students at a time. The centre has refrigeration and storage units. In addition to culinary training, the students are being introduced to the intricacies of the dining room, completing their training in the field of hosting. This segment is also recognized by the Ministry of Education for purposes of matriculation exam grading.
Machshavah School
The school was established to provide an educational framework for new immigrants in order to help them integrate into Israeli society.
The Machshava School is a unique elementary school for a student body comprised primarily of children who immigrated to Israel themselves or whose parents did so shortly before they were born. Most come from the former Soviet Union. The school provides a highly advanced academic programme focusing on science and math, with an additional arts curriculum focusing on music expression, complete with a choir and dance troupe. Machshava also recently added a very special music programme called “Sulamot” (musical scales), in partnership with the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra.
Day Care & Kindergarten Centres
A warm and caring environment for thousands of toddlers. Teams of committed, professional and trained kindergarten teachers care for them with dedication and lots of love.
The toddlers enjoy an educational framework which provides them with valuable life skills which allow each toddler to realize their full potential.
The work of Migdal Ohr’s network of kindergartens is based on the belief that education and the instilling of values at an early age is the foundation for Israel’s next generation. Children at our kindergartens enjoy educational programmes and games that provide them with much care, love and individual attention.
Elementary schools
Elementary schools provide their students with a framework of academic and vocational studies in the form of day and boarding schools.
The school’s students enjoy education for Jewish and national values, enrichment in music, computers, carpentry and other trends.
High schools
High schools provide a high level of moral, Jewish and secular education.
The students receive a supportive educational framework and many activities such as music, yoga, art, gymnastics, drama and more.
“Sulamot” Project
Sulamot, a joint project of the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO) and Migdal Ohr, focuses on teaching approximately 40 students each year how to play classical wind instruments and perform in the school’s orchestra. Founded in 2010, by American Friends of Migdal Ohr Board Member, Jerry Seligsohn, Sulamot was created to bring music education to
Israel’s neediest children and enhance their artistic development. At the IPO and Migdal Ohr, music is seen as a way of promoting change by encouraging such values as team work, responsibility, mutual respect, cooperation, tolerance, and strengthening self-confidence.
Made up of 5th and 6th graders from the Machshava Elementary School, students who participate in this unique programme practice daily and have lessons taught both privately and in small groups throughout the week. The orchestra consists of flutes, clarinets, oboes, alto and tenor saxophones, trumpets, trombones, tubas, French and baritone horns, as well as various percussion instruments.
Each year, children participating in the Sulamot Ohr Channa Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra Project perform in front of a live audience as part of the school’s end of the year performance. They also get to perform in a unique concert in Tel Aviv that is dedicated to schools participating in similar programmes. In 2013, three girls from the 6th grade competed in the first ever Ruth Lewis International Clarinet Competition in Tel Aviv and took home the 3rd prize!
Chag Saveah for Children Campaign
The “Chag Saveah for Children” is a nationwide campaign for the distribution of food parcels to the needy which takes place every year before the Jewish New Year and at Passover. It began in 2003 by students from the Migdal Ohr school in Migdal ha’Emek who learned that when you receive something, you have to be able to give something back to society. Over the years, this local initiative that began with the distribution of 500 food packages to families in financial need has expanded into an essential, national campaign that now provides over 40,000 food parcels every year, led by students from Migdal Ohr with thousands volunteers taking part from all over the Israeli spectrum. The spirit of giving and love of Rabbi Grossman unites all around him with the joy of doing and helping others. Israel Prize laureate Rabbi Yitzhak Dovid Grossman, founder and president of Migdal Ohr, said: “Every year, I am excited to see the spirit of volunteerism, giving and love within Israeli society, which helps out so that we will can provide food packages to those people who need them so much. It is moving to see the Knesset employees help pack the food baskets so that we will be able to reach more families and children who have nothing to eat during the holiday. This is an example of the unmatched spirit of giving within Israeli society.”
Bridal Fund
The programme was established in 2007 to help alumni couples in Israel who do not have the means for even a modest wedding. Covering these expenses helps to alleviate some of the burdens imposed on these young brides-to-be, and our young couples can begin a new life without the additional stress of struggling to pay their bills. Instead, they can focus on secondary education and the marital relationship – the means to a solid future.