AKIM Success Stories

Meet 23 year old Shira Tsubari and her 19 year old brother Elkana. They completed a challenging and emotional year making the transition from living in an institution to community living in an AKIM apartment in Tel Aviv.

We met some wonderful people dealing with their harsh reality. In Akim’s apartment in Ashdod, we met Dina, who together with her friends divides her schedule into 45 seconds units, so that in every activity and situation, she will be able to make it to the shelter that is situated in the courtyard outside the building.

Miri Elyatim is the mother of nine-year-old Rom. Rom loves music, songs and dancing. He is a student in a special-education school. “Sometimes I get tired from the bureaucracy and from the daily need to fight on behalf of my son Rom. Thank God we have AKIM. When I...

Eti Weisbrot is the mother of twenty-three-year-old Yossi, an actor in “A Different Theater.” “Yossi had a dream. He wanted to act in the theater – he wanted to act on a big stage. One day we received a call from AKIM and were told about the establishment of the...

Taga Tazazu was born in Ethiopia in 1964 and emigrated to Israel in 1990 with Operation Solomon. Taga is a very modest person, who doesn’t talk much. His words are few but profound; he says “I paint with my heart.”Taga started to create art through classes offered by...

Gil Cataloni is a thirty-seven-year-old Special Olympic swimmer and worker at the Cellcom company.“I have been working at Cellcom in Netanya for seven years in the mail department. I stamp outgoing mail with an automatic stamp machine. The staff likes me and I take my...

When Haim Lavie was born, the prognosis was not good – the doctor told his mother that he would never walk or speak. 20 years later, Haim is a soldier in the Israel Defense Forces. “As his mother, seeing him wearing his uniform is a dream come true since it stands for...