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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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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

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Testimonial 4th retreat - A thank you letter from Avratech

The 4th Matanel Retreat 2018

Joëlle, Ami, Johanna, et toute la famille Matanel – Un grand merci pour l’occasion de vous connaitre mieux et sentir part d’une bonne volonté a nombreux cercles.
That’s how far I can get with my poor French…
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books

Es-Saouira de Mogador

Ami Bouganim

Essaouira-Mogador est située sur une presqu’île ceinturée de murailles. Les araucarias importés d’on ne sait où communiquent leur solennité aux décors et contiennent leur vertige océanique. Un envoûtement mystérieux insinue une douce griserie aux habitants autant qu’aux visiteurs. On succombe au tournis des vents, au manège des mouettes, aux assauts des vagues et… à l’indétermination des regards voilés. Dans la précipitation du soir, ameutées par le muezzin, les hirondelles résolvent en toute hâte les équations posées pendant le jour par les mouettes et les goélands. Les embruns épaississent l’obscure magie des lieux.
A travers une galerie de courts portraits qui ensemble restituent la poétique des lieux, ce livre se propose en carte de visite de cette ville côtière du Sud marocain.

The Saying of Matanel

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

Rainer Maria Rilke