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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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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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The 4th Matanel Retreat - A thank you letter from Kaima Hukuk farm

The 4th Matanel Retreat 2018

Dear Joelle, Gad and Ami.
It was and honor to finally meet you and to participate in the Matanel inspiring conference.

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Matanel 4th retreat 2018

The Matanel Foundation supports Israeli and worldwide projects.
The Foundation organizes regularly a Retreat in Israel, where its administrators, counsellors, and partners meet each other.

This year, the 4th Retreat took place on Thursday, June 21st 2018

University professors, intellectuals, rabbis and social actors were present in a warm atmosphere of exchange and free thinking.

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