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Year and its beginnings: The Israelis who have opened a new page in life - and share their stories Israel today

2021-09-05T16:45:25.403Z


This is the time, this is the day, this is the moment • Carol immigrated from Brazil at the age of 34 and joined a cyber company • Shilat overcame her anxieties • Naftali was a street dweller and now a helper for others • Moriah mustered the courage to leave her abusive husband •


"There is a care here that is nowhere else"

Carol Hauser, immigrated from Brazil to the Israeli dream

After years of living in Brazil, Carol Hauser, 40, decided to make her dream come true and immigrate to Israel alone at the age of 34. "I grew up in Rio de Janeiro. All my life I was in Brazil and attended Jewish schools, and was a member of the Latin American Jewish Youth Movement. ", She says. "It was simply impossible to walk around the streets, and it pushed me out of my comfort zone. So I found myself immigrating on September 8, 2015 to an absorption center in Raanana, with two suitcases and that's it. As part of the aliyah, Gevahim helped me find a job. Netafim factory. "

Hauser reveals that “because I know English, Spanish and Portuguese, I was part of the American division and was in touch with people, from the US to Chile. It was a very happy job, and I was very happy to be part of such an innovative project with such a good product. In 2018 a Mexican company bought Netafim and transferred its management to Mexico. I stayed in the country and started looking for a job. In the meantime, I started writing a blog about the labor market in Israel versus the labor market in Brazil, and the blog also found me a job. A man named Assaf Luxemburg, who writes on the blog, contacted me and told me he was looking for a worker. I offered myself even though there was no job equivalent to my knowledge, but they found me a job.

"I must say that the Israeli guarantee, this willingness to turn to and help a person, this caring in the country is special and exciting. I have a good and optimistic outlook on life and it excites me the whole attitude in the country to people, how to help and not leave them alone. "At the Cyber ​​Checkmarks company. I am very happy in Israel, and I have a great desire to live and succeed here in my Jewish family," she concludes.

By: Assaf Golan

Carol Hauser, Coco

"Please treat people with special needs as equals - we are just like everyone else"

Despite the difficulties, Shilat Avisror Peretz is dreaming big

"I'm a little different, but I say I'm special. I'm dealing with an anxiety problem, and that's basically my background disease. But it's important to me that they treat us, the population with special needs, equally, and not discriminate against us in society. Attention and Attitude. "

Speaker: Shilat Avisror Peretz, a 24-year-old resident of Yavne, who is starting a new path and is now taking her steps in special training for integration into the labor market.

Shilat is actually integrated into employment programs run by the Ministry of Welfare and Social Security for people with special needs.

The firm operates working groups, including the "Returning Story" network of the "Everything is Good" group.

Shilat comes daily to the training center of a retelling story in her hometown, Yavne.

Rina Spiegel, Project Manager: "Returning Story is a social bookstore chain, which is an employment training center for people dealing with occupational barriers, through reuse of books. Rehabilitative vocational training in storytelling allows for experience in skills, learning, providing professional tools and an opportunity to re-adapt to the local job market ".

Shilat says she is the eldest daughter of Orit and Aharon, and has three younger brothers.

"I've been here for four months, and the center has contributed a lot to me. I fit in with the goal of entering the job market. I used to work in another training center, but there it was difficult and here I underwent a very significant change. I feel more active at work, doing more things. And helps. "

And what is the dream at the end of the training?

"My direction is to engage in the field of music. I love to sing and I am a member of a musical ensemble, and I would be happy if I could enter this field. This is my dream."

By: Shlomi Diaz

"I'm still adjusting to my new life, but I've become a proud Zionist"

Abigail Windberg, the lone soldier from China who fell in love with the country

Private Abigail Windberg, a recruiter at the Artillery Brigade in her tribe, is celebrating Rosh Hashanah for the first time as a female soldier. "They thought I was crazy," she says.

Windberg enlisted in the program for individual soldiers of "Nefesh Benefesh" and FIDF, and according to what has so far emerged from her experiences, this is exactly what she wants.

She currently lives in Jerusalem with her partner, and she also has an adoptive family here.

Before immigrating, she studied computer science in the United States but did not finish, in part because she wanted to come to Israel. She says she came to Israel a few years ago, and after joining the place, she decided to study at a seminary.

Abigail Windberg, IDF Spokesman

"It's a long story. My family is from the Jewish community in China. I came to Israel a few years ago as a kibbutz volunteer, and then I became increasingly interested in the Land of Israel, so I went and enrolled in a seminary. That was part of what made me immigrate to Israel. "

She soon implemented it.

"I immigrated a year ago in September, and enlisted in May. It was a significant change in my life. I'm still trying to adjust to my new life. I do not have much free time, the language is new and very different for me, and sometimes we stay a few weeks at base."

Abigail has agreed to sign an additional six months of service to fulfill her role.

And she has no regrets, although she will probably not get to spend the upcoming holiday with her partner in an apartment in Jerusalem.

She has not seen her family since enlisting, and has one blessing: "May the plague be behind us."

By: Erez Lin

"I am the proof that it is possible otherwise"

Naftali Yavetz helps populations in need

Naftali Yavetz, 33, is the fourth child out of six from an ultra-Orthodox family from Jerusalem.

"At the age of 11 I started to 'spoil', deviate from the usual ultra-Orthodox way, and was appointed an activist who took me to five foster families, all in ultra-Orthodox society and not really supervised. One was a single man who sexually abused me. At 15 I decided to go out and become a street child.

Naftali started selling drugs on the streets at the age of 16 and a half, and after a year was arrested with 14 criminal cases.

From there he rolled into a year-long detention.

When he was released with nothing, no education, family and money, returning to the same lifestyle was the easiest solution, but "Naf Street Boy" - a nickname given to him in his youth on the streets of Jerusalem - decided otherwise.

After two years of self-searching in Tel Aviv and Eilat, he went to Sderot.

"I started studying for all the matriculations and went on to study social work at Sapir College." And even there not everything went smoothly. Because of his criminal record he could not get the permit to work in the profession. He also overcame this, and with the help of the then President Shimon Peres, he received the pardon and the criminal case was deleted. Prime Minister's Office (for the development of an administrative reserve for government ministries), and for the past four years he has served as Chief of Staff of the Courts and Correctional Administration at the Ministry of Welfare and Social Security.

"It was clear to me that I actually wanted the Ministry of Welfare. I wanted to get to a place that deals with these populations, the extreme populations," the same low place where he was himself.

"This policy affects small street children who are still there. Knowing that even if it is very dark today - there is another way. My job is to bring to the decision-makers' table the opinion they do not usually hear."

Today, Naftali is happily married, returned to contact with his biological parents and even celebrated two weddings, one according to the custom among the ultra-Orthodox and another for friends from his life.

By: Ilya Yagurov

Naftali Yavetz, Yossi Zeliger

"Begins life in a healthy way, without fear and violence"

Moriah smiles after years of abuse

It's hard not to shed a tear from the story of Moriah (47), a mother of three children (10, 16, 22) from the center of the country. "I waited until September 1 for the children to enter the frames and not see the policemen handcuffing their father," she says. "For three weeks I planned, together with the social worker in the social services department, the transition to the Ministry of Welfare's violence for women victims of violence. During this time I carried a recording device on my body that would record the economic, verbal, physical and sexual violence. "With the recording, I went to the police station, and from there the journey to freedom began."

Moriah and her husband met during military service, and after a year and a half were married.

"He was very creative on the level of cruelty. If it's a lighter fight to my body and threatening to burn me, passing a knife on my body and threatening that if I leave him he will cut me all over my body. Threats and deeds. When I first shared a girlfriend in my marriage, she immediately connected "Soon to the local authority's social services department."

Moriah,

Moriah left with her children the shelter for battered women where they had stayed for about three months, and set out for independence and a new path.

Moriah is doing this exciting process as part of the "New Page" program, a program initiated and led by the Ministry of Welfare and Social Security, and operated by the "Self" organization.

"A 'new page' for me is a back. Beyond the close support I get from the social worker who accompanies me, I received help with the furniture of the apartment I moved into with my children, help with building my business, equipment and enrichment courses. This help allows me and my children to start a new page In a healthy way, without fear and without violence. "

Source: israelhayom

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