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Intergenerational Activities at Reuth’s Subsidized Community Housing – Perach Zahav Matanel

Aging can be a painful process as seniors contend with retirement, loss of friends and loved ones, a decline in functional ability, and more. As a result, many experience debilitating loneliness, and subsequently, a dramatic decline in their mental and physical health. The vision of the project is to improve the quality of life of underprivileged seniors who are living in Reuth’s subsidized community housing.

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Congratulations to Petra Straga, winner of the prestigious  LIYSF prize sponsored by the Matanel Foundation with her Project : “Multilingual Minds, Delayed Neurological Decline ” Price remitted by Lionel Mamane, Matanel Foundation's advisor the 14th of March during the 55th National Jonk Fuerscher Contest in Luxembourg. Originally, this award was intended to offer the winner a summer internship at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel—one of the world’s leading centers for scientific research. So today, we would like to offer a sincere prayer for peace as an absolute necessity. For science, like music, is one of the few things that brings us together as human beings, across borders, languages, and conflicts. It knows no passport. And we hope that this prize will one day regain its special significance—and that these young people will, in a more peaceful world, be able to discover Israel.  
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Orit Lefler & Yaniv Bocian

Matanel Educational farm - Bein Hatlamim - Pessah 2025

Bein Hatlamim farm – Matanel Educational Farm

As we prepare to celebrate Passover – a holiday of freedom, renewal, and hope – we wanted to take a moment to thank you for being part of our journey

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Contes des miroirs brisés

Haviva Pedaya

Les Contes des miroirs brisés, avec leur cortège de doubles, d’alter ego et de reflets, nous invitent à lire les rapports que l’homme entretient avec les êtres aimés à l’aune des forces et passions qui se trament, invisibles à l’œil nu, entre les murs de la demeure en péril. Les personnages de Haviva Pedaya – hommes et femmes à la croisée des chemins, automates amoureux, anges-marionnettistes, Adam et Eve primordiaux ou éternellement répétés – réapparaissent d’un conte à l’autre, tissant une magistrale allégorie de l’existence humaine, entre l’implacabilité du destin et la force du libre arbitre. Dans ces contes métaphysiques qui évoquent les figures mythiques de Narcisse ou de Pygmalion, puisent leurs thèmes et leurs structures dans le hassidisme et la kabbale, mêlent le souffle poétique biblique à l’interrogation talmudique et allient l’écho des Mille et unes nuits à la tradition de la littérature fantastique, l’auteur sonde les contrées désolées où l’homme, dans la solitude de la conscience, attend le réconfort d’un geste d’amour.

The Saying of Matanel

If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am only for myself, who am I? If not now, when?

Ethics of the Fathers, 1:14