Lamerhav
myself. My best self
Lamerhav Association
Who We Are:
Lamerhav was founded in 2001 with the vision of bringing about
comprehensive social change through multidimensional, intensive,
and long-lasting intervention in the lives of young Israeli adults from
low socio-economic backgrounds who lack a family support
network, with a view of helping them break through the academic,
professional, and social glass ceilings they face, and ensure their
integration into Israeli society as active and independent citizens
who contribute to that society and themselves act as agents of social
change.
Stories From Our Graduates
This may sound as a cliché, and probably most of us, if not all, reply with the same simple word: “a home”. This is the place where the heart and mind can be brought as they are, without a sense of shame or fear of being judged.l
Lian Mishayev
Lamerhav to me is like winning the lottery. This is an opportunity not to be missed. Lamerhav is one big family that only knows how to give and give, embrace and love, support and guide, and most importantly, accepts you as you are! How did you get to Lamerhav and what is your first memory from the program? I think that I arrived to the program in 2004 or 2005, two years after I made Aliyah. My instructor from the “Naale” program heard about the program, and so I came to the sorting reviews. My first memory of Lamerhav,
Lena Shenmesh Rifkin
Lamerhav was a place where I could be at the center. A place where I felt that I could evolve in the direction I wanted to go, and yet, explore other possibilities in a containing environment. Lamerhav was a fun place, a place where I could just hang out on the lawn or on the couch, play the guitar and enter into philosophical discussions with the other counsellors and young adults around. Lamerhav was a place of discussions, and arguments and compromise and agreement, almost every emotion in the range of emotions came up at one time