“Being remembered by the laughter of children” – The Geula Kindergarten was recently dedicated in memory of Geula Rabinovitz, former First Lady of Tel Aviv-Yafo and kindergarten teacher who once worked in the very same building that now carries her name. The kindergarten was donated by her son and daughter-in-law, Joseph and Mirit Rabinovitz, who traveled from Los Angeles for the ceremony.
At the ceremony, the kindergarten’s parent representative, Erez Navon (pictured below), son of former President of Israel Yitzchak Navon, shared an extraordinary story. Decades ago, Geula Rabinovitz and her husband, Yehoshua (former Mayor of Tel Aviv and Israeli government minister) sent President Navon a letter of congratulations on the birth of his son, Erez. It was the very same Erez who stood with his daughter, a child in the kindergarten, before the family of Geula Rabinovitz, who dedicated the kindergarten, to close the circle.
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The Tel Aviv Foundation Look At 2024
16 January 2024Click here to read about the Tek Aviv Foundation Look at 2024 and a look back to 2023 https://mailchi.mp/telavivfoundation.org/2024?e=[UNIQID]
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The Tel Aviv Foundation is the 2022 Liberal Magazine Impact Award recipient
14 March 2023In a ceremony held during the annual Liberal Social Impact Conference, The Tel Aviv Foundation received the 2022 Impact Award in the Public Sector, for the initiative to reduce elderly loneliness in partnership with SFI via Social Impact Bonds. The program to reduce elderly loneliness provides an array of tech tools, specifically designed for senior […]
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The Tel Aviv Foundation Opens the Stanley Gold Spacebook Library at Ironi Hey High School
15 December 2021On December 15, 2021 A new student-focused collaborative study space opened, with the generous support of Stanley Gold, who joined via Zoom. Designed for the information age, designed to encourage interactive and collaborative learning in a relaxed and fun way, was built and will operate on three basic principles. 1. Designed and managed by students […]
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The Shapiro Foundation expands its support for children of asylum-seekers
02 February 2021Having seen the life-changing impact of after-school programs for children of asylum-seekers, Ed and Barbara Shapiro of the Shapiro Foundation from Boston decided to increase their generous support for after-school programs for children of asylum-seekers. They are now supporting a total of nine programs, providing over 300 children with essential educational and social support. These […]
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Local shopkeepers in Jaffa celebrating digital coin campaign success
02 February 2021Local businesses on Jerusalem Boulevard in Jaffa were, until a month ago, facing financial ruin in the wake of total street closures due to the light rail construction. However, the digital currency campaign initiated by the Tel Aviv Foundation in partnership with the Municipality of Tel Aviv-Yafo and Colu, has injected some $600,000 into the local […]
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Students Housing Scholarships Distributed
02 February 2021Just in time for Passover, Housing Scholarships were distributed as follows: Tel Aviv University – 89, Kibbutzim College – 2, Academic College – 45, Nissan Nativ Acting Studio – 10, The Yoram Levinstein’s Performing Arts Studio – 10