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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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Testimonials

Erez Ezrachi

Testimonial 4th retreat - A thank you letter from SHEKEL

The 4th Matanel Retreat 2018

Dear Ami and Johanna,
​Kol Hakavod on Matanel’s Fourth Retreat in which we had the honor and privilege to participate last Thursday!

We were very impressed by the vast array of diverse programs advancing such original projects from all across Israel

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books

Le Livre

Neri Segrè

Les livres ne cessent de paraître et de se relayer sur les devantures des librairies et dans les supermarchés. Nous sommes débordés par eux, pris de vertige devant les piles qui s’amoncellent dans nos bibliothèques, désespérés d’en venir à bout. Nous assistons incontestablement à une mutation dans le rôle qu’a tenu le livre dans la civilisation, par trop livresque, qui a été la nôtre jusqu’à la grande révolution télématique.
Désormais, nous sommes poursuivis par le spectre de la disparition du livre-papier et protestons de notre irréductible tendresse pour ces bons vieux bouquins qui respirent l’arbre et l’encre. On ne renoncera pas à la relation sensuelle, quasi mystique, avec ceux-ci. Peut-être ne résistons-nous autant à la perspective de leur disparition que parce que nos décors sont toujours faits de livres et que nous sommes encore – provisoirement ? – condamnés à vivre dans un univers de lettres.

The Saying of Matanel

Remember: Things can go from the very worst to the very best… in just the blink of an eye.

Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav