Part of the foundation’s vision is making higher education a reality for all our alumni. The foundation provides scholarships in order to help its alumni with living costs and tuition during college.
Scholarships are worth 10,000 shekels and require 130 annual hours of volunteer service.
For more details, contact us.
Throughout its years of activity, the foundation has created a vast network of alumni that spans among a rich variety of ecosystems. In order to achieve this network’s full potential, a project was initiated to connect alumni and foster business connections in order to find job searching solutions for newly released soldiers.
If you’re interested in acting as a mentor, or if you’re looking for a job, contact us via Facebook or email.
By far the foundation’s most important project, volunteers build and maintain meaningful relationships with war-bereaved families, accompanying them to events that memorialize fallen soldiers, and providing them with support during the hardest of times.
Would you like to offer your time to a family? Contact us.
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The Tail Wind Project was founded to help the unit’s lone soldiers adjust to life in Israel. Working with Benji’s House, the Benji Hillman Foundation, this endeavor holds events and mentors soldiers during and after their military service.
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Throughout its years of activity, the foundation has created a vast network of alumni that spans among a rich variety of ecosystems. In order to achieve this network’s full potential, a project was initiated to connect alumni and foster business connections in order to find job searching solutions for newly released soldiers.
If you’re interested in acting as a mentor, or if you’re looking for a job, contact us via Facebook or email.
This is a social initiative designed to serve the wider Israeli community through volunteering, with the intention to reach both soldiers and civilians. The Yahalom Foundation aims to establish the framework and infrastructure for a large foundation-run volunteering project, in addition to running several smaller projects that target a diverse range of social initiatives.
If you’re interested in participating in one of these projects or want to launch one yourself, click on the link to sign up.
As a part of the effort to alleviate the transition into civilian life, the foundation assembled a group of alumni experts. These experts are individuals who have a wide range of skills and knowledge, and this networking service is available to all newly released soldiers. Its purpose is to act as a sounding board, a safe space to ask any questions they might have regarding civilian life, finding a job, getting into college, and any other concerns.
All the consultants are alumni who have already had the experience of dealing with the trials of this transition, and their principal role is to serve as a mentor for these soon-to-be civilians.
We carefully match each soldier with the most suitable alumni. Reach out to us via email if you’re interested.
The foundation prides itself on supporting all of the unit’s veterans and alumni. Many of the unit’s soldiers choose to continue their service as officers or non-commissioned officers (NCOs) and are not exposed to the array of support that the foundation provides for veterans and recently released soldiers. In order to bridge this gap, the foundation runs a series of informative lectures for officers and NCOs on a bi-yearly basis.
In conjunction with the foundation’s endeavour to provide every member of the unit with full support, workshops are held for soldiers who are entering into the last few months of their mandatory service. These workshops include panels, guest lecturers, and guided personal preparation for the upcoming transition to civilian life.
This transition is of particular importance to the Yahalom Foundation. Since the majority of the foundation’s efforts are aimed at alumni of the Yahalom Unit, and not soldiers in active duty, the impending transition from military service to civilian life is the ideal moment to strengthen the connection between soon-to-be released soldiers and the foundation, providing an introduction to the activities and services that are and will be available to them. This period presents a unique opportunity to provide these soldiers with a strong and reliable support network as they enter the next chapter of their lives.
These are events that bring veterans together through reunions. The goal is to expose them to the current work of the unit, as well as the work of the Yahalom Foundation.
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