Neve Hanna Children’s Home

Changing Children’s Lives

Since 1974, Neve Hanna Children’s Home in Kiryat Gat, Israel, has provided a loving and nurturing home for children from distressed and dysfunctional family circumstances. The children come from diverse backgrounds, including Russian, Ethiopian, and Middle Eastern immigrant families, as well as native-born Israelis.

Many of these children have experienced poverty, abuse, parental neglect, mental illness, and drug or alcohol addiction within the home. At Neve Hanna, their physical, emotional, educational, and spiritual needs are addressed within a caring and therapeutic environment.

Affiliated with the Masorti Movement as a Kehillah — the only one of its kind in Israel — Neve Hanna provides individual therapy, remedial instruction, and extensive enrichment and recreational programs that help children heal, grow, and thrive.

Neve Hanna offers these at-risk youth the opportunity to move beyond the circumstances into which they were born and build brighter futures as confident, responsible, and contributing members of society.

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WELCOME

When you enter Neve Hanna, it is impossible not to fall in love with this magical children’s home located in Kiryat Gat, Israel. Visitors to Neve Hanna often note the care and attention given to each child, the recognition of individual needs and challenges, and the abundance of smiling faces.

Therapeutic Programs

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Neve Hanna Children’s Home strives to meet all the physical, emotional, mental, and educational needs of its children by enriching them with a wide variety of individualized therapeutic programs, projects, and extracurricular activities. The staff consists of trained educators, social workers, psychologists, and psychiatrists, as well as experts in therapeutic fields.

Miriam Beatrice Rich
Mitzvah Project

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Miriam Beatrice Rich will be called to the Torah as a Bat Mitzvah on June 13, Parshat Sh’lach at Temple Beth Tzedek in Williamsville, NY.  Miriam has chosen Neve Hanna Children’s Home as her Mitzvah Project. She feels very connected to the mission and is moved to help support the work at Neve Hanna. 

Learn more about Miriam and help support her Mitzvah Project! Mazal Tov, Miriam, on your upcoming Bat Mitzvah!

Current News from Neve Hanna

Read the full 2023 Crisis Report. You can help by making a donation to the Emergency Needs Shelter Fund.

American Friends of Neve Hanna stands with Israel and the IDF as they protect their citizens. We keep the children and staff of Neve Hanna Children’s Home, as well as all of Israel, in our hearts, thoughts, and prayers. We pray that we will be delivered from this time of war and enter a time of peace.  As supporters of the State of Israel and our People, let us come together as a community.

Yeladudes Bakery School

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Yeladudes Bakery School gives our children the opportunity to explore the professional world of baking while discovering new possibilities for their future. The Yeladudes Bakery School provides our teens with deeper insight into the products, ingredients, nutritional details, and production process by teaching them to repeat processes precisely.

Learn more about the Yeladudes Bakery School and how you can help support it.

Anna Ullmann Hip-Hop Program

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The Hip-Hop program combines education, culture, therapy, and creativity through activities such as rapping, dancing, and beatboxing. It promotes well-being, encourages self-expression, and provides a powerful creative outlet for young people.

Learn more about the Anna Ullmann Hip-Hop Program and how you can help support it.

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Become a friend!

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Thanks to the generosity of supporters, Neve Hanna has been able to expand its outreach to at-risk youth facing great difficulty. The support of our friends allows the American Friends of Neve Hanna to increase its assistance and meet critical needs. Together, we can fulfill the promise of providing our boys and girls the opportunity to grow into happy, healthy, and successful young adults.

Neve Hanna is a magic jewel that converts sadness into joy, weeping into laughter, tragic destinies into hopeful futures.

~ Rabbi Benjamin Kreitman z”l,
Founding President, AFNH

Care and attention given to each individual and unique child at Neve Hanna gives each child hope and opportunity for growth and living a healthy, happy and productive life.

~ Rabbi Ellen Wolintz-Fields, Director of Women’s League for Conservative Judaism

Library Program

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The Library fosters a love of reading, provides additional vocational training, builds interpersonal skills, and inspires the pursuit of higher education. The library serves as an educational project and a self-supporting project. Our professional librarian supervises and educates the children and offers on-the-job training for our teens, giving them the education, experience, and job skills to pursue a career in Library Science.

Ziv Neurim

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Ziv Neurim, the Path of the Sea program, works with 30 teenage boys and girls needing intensive support in their teen development. Professionally guided group activities on the beach and in the sea are offered through topics such as perseverance, mastering challenges, and personal willpower. The youngsters discover new worlds by swimming and rowing, surfing and sailing.

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Mitzvah Projects

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Is your religious school, synagogue, sisterhood, or men’s club looking for a new and meaningful social action project? Partner with Neve Hanna Children’s Home for your next Tikkun Olam Mitzvah project.

Learn more about how you can get involved and choose a mitzvah project in support of the Neve Hanna community in Kiryat Gat, Israel.

Join Young Leadership

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Become a Goodwill Ambassador for American Friends of Neve Hanna. Be part of Young Leadership, a dynamic group of volunteers, change-makers, and a network strong enough to impact positive change in the lives of children.

Neve Hanna
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American Friends of Neve Hanna
PO Box 640685
Oakland Gardens, NY 11364-0685
(347) 836-8118
info@afnevehanna.org

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