Migdal Ohr (, ''lit.'' Tower of Light) is one of Israel's largest NGO's. The main and additional two residential campuses along with 160 youth clubs provide educational frameworks and social guidance for over 10,000 children and teenagers from underprivileged and dysfunctional homes across Israel every day. Migdal Ohr also runs community social programs, adult education programs, prisoner rehabilitation programs and soup kitchens that prepare 15,000 meals a day.
Migdal Ohr has three residential campuses and 160 youth clubs.
Migdal Ohr was founded by
Israel Prize
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History
Prior to the Israel Prize, the most significant award in the arts was the Dizengoff Prize and in Israel ...
laureate Rabbi
Yitzchak Dovid Grossman in 1972. The school began with 18 students. Since then, over 15,000 youngsters have graduated from the Migdal Ohr, an institution that provides needy and
immigrant
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children with housing, schooling, medical and dental care, clothing, libraries, after school enrichment courses and vocational training.
Overview of Migdal Ohr - The Pride of Israel
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See also
* Education in Israel
Education in Israel encompasses compulsory education, which spans from kindergarten through 12th grade, and higher education, which is characterized by a public university system and significant government subsidies. The school education, which ...
* Youth village
A youth village () is a boarding school model first developed in Mandatory Palestine in the 1930s to care for groups of children and teenagers fleeing the Nazis. Henrietta Szold and Recha Freier were the pioneers in this sphere, known as youth ...
References
External links
Migdal Ohr Official website
Youth villages in Israel
Education in Israel
Words and phrases in Modern Hebrew
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