New spirit for the whole community
Groundbreaking project
Help us help them
Help us
help them
Belev Raanana is building a home in the community for low-functioning young adults with severe intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Belev Raanana’s vision is rooted in the recognition that these young adults have the right to live a full life, near their families, within their home communities. This follows the philosophy of community and inclusive living. While this philosophy applies to everyone, it has unfortunately not yet been applied to this vulnerable sector of society.
Today, with a building permit in hand, Belev Raanana is preparing for the construction stage.
From vision to implementation:
Living within the community
The building of the home reflects a change in Israeli society’s approach to this vulnerable sector of society
The home will be built on land allocated by the Raanana Municipality at 9 HaPrachim St.
The home we are building is one of the first of its kind to be built in Israel – a home within the community – specifically for people with severe disabilities.
The initiative for the home arose from the lack of suitable residential solutions for young adults with severe disabilities. Refusing to accept the solutions available, we decided to take action!
No more institutions!
No more exclusion!
A home in the heart of the community
The city of Raanana commends the initiative of Belev Raanana - establishing a residential complex for low-functioning young adults with intellectual disabilities. It is a great privilege to take part in this important project. The City Council has allocated public land for the construction of the complex, which will provide its residents with a caring home and optimal quality of life for the rest of their lives. The complex will be built in a residential neighborhood in west Raanana at 9 HaPrachim st. as part of the concept of inclusion of people with special needs in the community. We believe that in addition to its great significance for the residents and their families, the project will add an important dimension to the fundamental values of our entire community.
The project was enabled by a longstanding partnership with several professional organizations
If they could speak, they would say…
About love and responsibility
New spirit for the community
A social and ethical change
We invite you to partner with us at Belev Raanana.
Together we will fulfill their dream: Building the first home of its kind in Israel, in the community, for low-functioning young adults.
About Us
Belev Raanana – Living together in the Raanana community
No more institutions! No more exclusion!
A home in the heart of the community
Belev Raanana is a registered nonprofit organization (No. 580490605) established with the aim of building a home in the community for young adults with severe intellectual and developmental disabilities.
The project was undertaken after extensive research found that no suitable community-living options exist in Israel for people with severe disabilities. Refusing to accept this, we decided to take action!
Thanks to our initiative, these young people will finally have a home, accessible and adapted to their specific needs, where they can live a full and dignified life within their home community.
With a building permit in hand, and after laying the cornerstone, Belev Raanana is looking forward starting the construction.
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"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." Albert Einstein
For many years my family and I struggled with the difficult and complex challenge of raising a child with special needs in our home. We gave him all our love and devotion, which were always able to overcome the hardships. But thinking of the future, I found it hard to imagine my son living in some faraway institution. I wanted him, as he reached adulthood, to continue living in the community, in a supportive and dignified home - just like the home of his childhood. And that is how the idea was born:
Israela Ringham-Levi
Project Initiator and Director
Yuval Kedar – chairman
Lorre Goldberg
Tal Inbar-Altman
Doron Marom
Alex Daulby
Yossi Monin
Nadine Zar
Tali Tzor
Dr. Miki Seiffe
David Tzor
Yarden Ringham
German Lioverski
Pinahas Dov Goldberger
Kobi Maimon
Galit Dabby Meretz
Hartman Dalia
Inbal Shuvali
Gideon Arieli
Oren Tassa
Shaul Dabby
Attorney Eli Braude – Legal advisor
Leonard Friedman CPA (ISR.) FCA – Auditor
The Building
Previously sent to faraway institutions, these young adults will now be able to live in their own loving, supportive home community
The home being built by Belev Raanana is among the first of its kind in Israel:
Apartments in the community for young adults with severe disabilities.
Young adults with severe disabilities, and/or in need of nursing care, who in the past would have been excluded from the community and sent to faraway institutions, will now be able to live their whole lives with dignity within their home community.
The entire plan of the residential complex is based on the most advanced professional approaches regarding housing solutions for special populations within the community. It will include three residential units, and each unit will be run independently, providing its residents with a sense of home, support and security.
Based on the highest standards of construction, the building will be fully accessible to people with disabilities. It will include three stories: a ground floor with two apartments, an upper floor with one apartment, and a lower ground floor with public areas and storerooms.
9 Haprachim St. Raanana
Approximately 900 m2
Young adults with moderate to severe intellectual disabilities and/or in need of nursing care
6 per unit, 18 residents in all
Project Cost
We call upon the community to continue contributing to this vital project:
building a home in the community for young adults with severe disabilities.
Help us to help them
Donor recognition
“מֵאֵת כָּל אִישׁ אֲשֶׁר יִדְּבֶנּוּ לִבּו”
פרשת תרומה, שמות כה, ב
Your donation is so much more than a financial contribution.
The building of the home reflects a change in Israeli society’s approach to this vulnerable sector of society:
From isolation and exclusion in an institution
to a caring home in the heart of the community
Every donation will be recognized and will help building the home.
Naming opportunities:
A donation of 4,000,000 NIS : the entire complex will be named for the donor and/or according to his or her specifications.
A donation of 2,000,000 NIS : one of the 3 residential units will be named for the donor and/or according to his or her specifications.
Different areas around the home will be named after our donors and/or their loved ones in the following order:
Founders – 1,000,000 NIS
A living room in the apartment including a kitchen and dining room, or the residents’ club at the lower entrance level
Partners – 500,000 NIS
Balcony on the first floor or patio in the lower entrance level or living room
Friends – 350,000 NIS
Double living room
Ambassadors – 200,000 NIS
Single living room or office or lobby
Wall of Love
Donations of 5,000 – 100,000 NIS will be recognized in different-sized plaques on the Wall of Love in the social room, where guests will participate in the Home’s activities.
• Each donor will receive a certificate of appreciation (click here).
About Love & Responsibility
When our child is born,
we learn about love.
Becoming parents, we understand the meaning of responsibility.
When our child is born, we learn about love.
Becoming parents, we understand the meaning of responsibility.
The mission of parenthood is always challenging and complex.
For parents of children with special needs, it is immensely more so.
These young adults were raised by loving families, within a supportive, embracing community.
The current professional approach strives to put an end to their exclusion from the community and allow them to live their whole lives in the communities where they grew up. No more institutions and hostels based on an outdated approach.
YES to living in the community for adults with severe disabilities
YES to inclusion in society and continued contact with the loving families.
My task as a mother is to help my children fulfill their potential. If my son wants to be a physicist, I will help him attain his goals. And if Sarah’s potential is to laugh, I will encourage her and enable her to be happy.
Tomi is an endearing blue-eyed boy, who loves to swim, play and listen to music. We have raised him with great love in our home, and his complete helplessness has bound us to him with the strongest bonds of both affection and obligation.
I want to tell you about Nimrod:
Our dear son Nimrod passed away recently. My dearly beloved firstborn son was a friendly boy with a smile on his face. Being his father made me much more open and sensitive as a man, and taught me a great deal about parenthood and about myself.
Raising and cherishing our beloved Atar, we grow with her, always rising up to the challenge, with heartache, worry and determination as our constant companions. Every morning we begin again! With endless optimism, a smile, and most of all – so much love for our delightful, lovely Atar. With her amazing cheerfulness, she gives us the strength to go on!
Note: All applicants will be screened by objective placement committees, as required by Israel’s Ministry of Social Services.
Donations for Belev Raanana
Bank Transfer
Account Name: Belev Raanana
Bank Mizrahi Tefahot (20)
Branch 423, Ahuza Raanana
Account No. 613696
International Transfer
IBAN: IL78 020 423 0000000 613696
SWIFT Code: MIZBILIT
Belev Raanana is a registered NPO (ID 580490605) with Appropriate Management certification.
Donations to Belev Raanana are tax deductible according to section 46 of Israeli tax code.
Israela Ringham-Levi
+972-54-6420186
[email protected]
Yuval Kedar
972-54-2179110+
[email protected]
Tal Inbar Altman
+972-52-6868097
[email protected]
Belev Raanana Registered nonprofit 580490605 Donations are tax deductible (Clause 46A)
*התמונות באתר להמחשה בלבד
עמותת בל”ב רעננה
עמותה רשומה 580490605
אישור מס לענייני תרומות (46א’)
ישראלה רינגהאם-לוי
054-6420186
[email protected]
טל ענבר אלטמן
052-6868097
[email protected]
דורון מרום
050-7274132
[email protected]
נדין זר
052-8909417
[email protected]
:In the USA, tax-deductible donations can be sent (and must be made payable to)
P.E.F Israel Endowment Funds
630 Third Avenue, 15th floor
NY, NY 10017
Contributions sent to PEF must include a recommendation for Belev Ra’anana with our amuta number: 58-0490605
