Board of Directors

בן חיים רות

Ruth Ben Haim

MA in management and conflict resolution and mediator. Director of the pre-academic preparatory program at the Ashdod Academic College of Engineering. Has been involved in the Haredi Academy for 15 years. Volunteer with Orthodox women in the process of divorce.

 

מורית (1)

Dr. Maurit Beeri

Director General of ALYN Hospital Pediatric and Adolescent Rehabilitation Center in Jerusalem. She also heads the Multidisciplinary Clinic for Infants and Children with Feeding Disorders. Maurit graduated from medical school and trained as a pediatrician at Hebrew University Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem. She is involved in promoting the concept of Cultural Competency in Health, establishing Alyn Jerusalem as the first culturally competent hospital in Israel. She is also involved in various health and social initiatives to promote the care rights of children with special needs, including the Early Intervention Coalition, which represents over 60 organizations and associations for children with special needs. She holds a Masters Degree in Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University as a Wexner Israel Fellow. Maurit is married to Professor Ronen Beeri who heads the diagnostic cardiology unit at Hadassah and they share three boys, one daughter in law and a cat.

גורי

Dr. Guri Zilka

Economic and organizational consultant to public and governmental institutions, including government ministries, the Knesset, local authorities, universities and colleges. Served as Director of the Project Development Department at the Israel Discount Bank, Director General of the Council for Higher Education, Planning and Budgeting Committee and Budget Director of the Council for Higher Education. In business administration. Lecturer in Public Administration. Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Privatization in Higher Education at ALBANY SUNY. A graduate of the Hebrew University in economics and political science and a Fulbright-Hubert Humphrey graduate in public administration at the University of Pennsylvania.

 

צילום: יואל בן ארי
Photo by: Yoel Ben Ari

Talya Levanon

Talia holds an MSW in clinical social work from Bar Ilan University in addition to a degree in Integrative Psychotherapy from Hebrew University.
Since 2001 talia is the CEO of ITC: An inter-sector collaborative network of over forty organizations. The ITC develops and implements, together with partners from Israel and the world, programs for treatment during and after an emergency, and the training of professionals and volunteers from various fields.

יסכה אופנהיים

Yiska Oppenheim

Social entrepreneur and activist, strategic consultant with extensive experience in leading branding and strategy processes, specializes in building marketing identity and developing community communication networks. Founder and co-director of the Facebook community, “business-related religiosity”, manages the business club.

 

Audit Committee:

Shilo Plesser – ILEAD- Program Director, Business
Yael Buznach – Educator, former project coordinator Haverut, former IDF officer