The Jewish Agency for Israel has developed a breakthrough model for ensuring that services directly reach the people most in need. This model, piloted in the highly successful Youth Futures program, is being expanded to reach and impact vulnerable populations in the North.
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Tomer Weinberg was critically wounded in the Hizbullah attack that sparked the second Lebanon war. His fellow reservists, Elad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser were kidnapped and have not been heard from since. Tomer is one of the first grant recipients of the Jewish Agency's Fund for Victims of Terror, supported by a generous $15 million donation from the UJC's Israel Emergency Campaign. Read more

"Growing up in the periphery I felt that I had less of a chance to 'make it' in places like Tel Aviv and in leading high tech companies. Atidim is giving me a real chance to move forward, and closing social gaps between those of us who did not have the same opportunities as people our own age in the center of the country," says Assaf Dahan from Kiryat Shmona, who has been accepted to the Atidim program. Read more