This past weekend, trainees from the Nachshon team of one of the movement's districts participated in a training seminar at the Beit El High School yeshiva.
However, at the end of the Shabbat, at the end of the seminar, a number of sexually harassed trainees were reported to the movement's management and indecent acts were performed by an outside catering worker who worked at the place.
In Bnei Akiva, they hurried to update the parents of the injured trainees, and contacted all the parents of the trainees who attended the seminar, asking them to talk to their children and report to the movement's social worker if they were injured.
Bnei Akiva also notes that we immediately updated the yeshiva management on the employee's actions.
The movement's deputy secretary general and the movement's social worker arrived in the area on Saturday to conduct the event and provide girls who claimed injury with initial support and assistance. Some of them arrived at Beit El as early as Shabbat and began a therapeutic and emotional process in front of the apprentices in the field - a process that continued in one of the localities in a joint dialogue with professionals last night when the girls arrived at their home. "The movement works with the welfare authorities in the various localities, and after the coordination and consent of the apprentice parents, the movement is expected to file a complaint with the police against the employee." On Sunday at noon a complaint was indeed filed against the employee.
"The movement calls and encourages any trainee who was injured during the seminar to share and report whether they experienced any harassment during the Sabbath," another Bnei Akiva said.
"It should be noted that shortly before the trainees reported the cases, they went through a special workshop during the seminar on sexual protection - a fact that may have led to the girls' sharing and reporting afterwards." Bnei Akiva will continue to accompany and assist injured girls To act as much as you can so that every initiate will feel safe and protected wherever she is, "the youth movement clarified.
The catering company responded: "As soon as we received the message about the allegations, we suspended the employee. We trust the police to come and investigate the truth."
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