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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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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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Desert Stars, Negev

The past month has been challenging at Desert Stars, as I imagine it is for everyone. However, in these difficult times our staff, but particularly students and program participants, have been displaying a huge commitment to their communities as young leaders – something that makes us immensely proud.

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Jérusalems

Shlomo Ben David

Jérusalems tente, comme l’indique le pluriel hébraïque de Yerushalaïm, d’accéder à cette unique pluralité du face à face biblique que porte au plus réel de son nom cette ville aux multiples facettes. Il est en cette cité une source que les pèlerins attentifs perçoivent au fond du cœur. Dialogue intarissable de génération en génération. Par-delà le vacarme du moi et ses guerres intestines, la parole féconde est accessible à celui qui veut entendre ! Ces poèmes sont l’écho de cet Orient-là.

The Saying of Matanel

It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.

Mother Teresa