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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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News

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Apr 2026
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Mar 2026
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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Mar 2026

Testimonials

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Mechinat Hannaton (SV26)

Matanel Solidarity Vouchers

Shalom Rav

From everyone at Midreshet Hannaton and our mechina, Mechinat Hannaton, we would like to
thank you for your support during this difficult time.
Our Mehina participants have been busy non-stop since the 7th October: providing day care and
activities for families from Kibbutz Sa’ad who had been evacuated to a hotel by the Dead Sea, and
subsequently, volunteering with renovating bomb shelters in Haifa, with families who have been
evacuated to our campus from Sderot, volunteering in farms which are understaffed because of the
war; and hospitals in central Israel where injured people are recovering.
Many of our over 500 Mechina alumni are serving on the front line and many others are involved in
volunteering activities around the country.

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books

Daughters of the king

Federica Valabrega

Portraits of Ashkenazi and Sephardic women from Jerusalem, New York, Paris, and beyond that seek to illuminate the femininity that accompanies “every gesture and every moment of their daily lives as religious women.”

 

The Saying of Matanel

From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven. And when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, their streams of light flow together, and a single brighter light goes forth from their united being.

The Baal Shem Tov