WIZO News

Every year WIZO youth villages host more and more students from the Na'ale Program: unaccompanied young Jewish students from around the world seeking a top-tier, Israeli high school education, with the goal of making Aliyah and serving in the IDF.

The recent 2017 MOR, the annual gathering of WIZO's international leaders, was a week of review, planning, bonding and first-hand encounters with the work the organization does across Israel.

Every year, WIZO provides Bar & Bat Mitzvah celebrations to thousands of Jewish children in Israel who might not otherwise be able to have one because of financial difficulties and complicated family situations.

Milestones for the Youth Village and its Students are Celebrated Back to Back

The 96-year-old organization, a champion of rights, ethics and equality in Israeli society, will now have its own written code of ethical behavior 

Racheli Mangoli, Chairperson of WIZO Pardes Katz, is available around the clock to the neediest people of her adopted community, one of Israel's weakest.

While the students of WIZO Achuzat Yeladim Boarding School and Residential Home were unhurt, the campus, the only safe home for many of them, incurred serious damage and will need to be rebuilt as soon as possible.

For the 2016 International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, WIZO brings attention to its year-round work and calling on the public and government to invest in prevention of abuse as the best form of treatment.

To mark the 2016 International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women on the November 25th, WIZO produced a video focusing on the subject of prevention. In the video WIZO is calling on the government of Israel to devote resources not only to treating abused women AFTER the abuse, but to preventing the abuse form happening at all.

In Vancouver, New York and New Jersey, Esther Mor met with volunteers, baked challah bread, and delivered the WIZO message to important federation events.