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. Though Shira and Elkana will not elaborate with...
Last Monday, together with Ms. Sigal Peretz Yahalomi, AKIM ISRAEL’s General Director and Mr. Avi Masfin, AKIM ISRAEL’s spokesperson, we visited our civil front in Ashdod and Ashkelon. We met some wonderful people dealing with their harsh reality. In Akim’s...
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...
