Bnei Brak Education Officials Tour Yisrael Perach's Community Rehabilitation Village in Rosh HaAyin

The tour included department heads, inspectors, coordinators, therapists, assistants and aides from the Education Department of the Bnei Brak Municipality, who came to get a close look at the work taking place at Perach Village, one of the network's most comprehensive and unique settings. The tour was accompanied and guided on behalf of the network by Rabbi Shabtay Eisenshtadt, who opened the visit with an extensive overview of Perach Yisrael's nationwide activity, which spans from north to south and includes educational, therapeutic and rehabilitation frameworks for children, students and adults with special needs.

The visit began in the village's briefing room, where the participants received an orderly presentation on Perach Yisrael as a national network, the scope of its activity, the therapeutic and educational continuum, and the various services provided in the network's frameworks. Later, the village director, Ms. Yafit Bergig, presented the unique activity of the community village in Rosh HaAyin, its organizational structure, its professional approach and the daily routine that takes place there for the residents.

The Perach Yisrael community village in Rosh HaAyin serves as a warm, professional and respectful home for residents who need a broad therapeutic and rehabilitative framework. Activity at the village combines housing, treatment, employment, leisure, medical support, para-medical services, emotional and social work, and the ongoing promotion of independence, functional abilities and quality of life. The residents live in pavilions and apartments adapted to their needs, with an individual framework built for each group and each resident according to their level of functioning, therapeutic needs and professional goals.

After the initial briefing, the participants went on a professional tour of the village led by Rabbi Yehuda, head of the village's treatment and medical unit. During the tour, the guests visited the rehabilitation and treatment departments, the clinic, the employment areas and the activity rooms, and saw up close the day-to-day work being done with the residents. The participants saw the places where the residents receive treatments, take part in activities, work, advance and acquire life skills, all under the close guidance of professional and dedicated staff.

The tour allowed the participants to get an immediate impression of the village's unique model, a combination of a protected and containing residential framework with a professional therapeutic system, rehabilitation activity, adapted employment and community life. The guests observed up close the village's internal division into pavilions and different frameworks, the personal adaptation provided to each resident, and the way a respectful, stable and progressive daily routine is built for them.

At the end of the tour, the participants returned to the briefing room, where a professional summary of the visit was held. During the summary, representatives of the Bnei Brak Municipality expressed their deep impression of the scope of the activity, the professionalism of the teams, the respectful atmosphere in the village, and Perach Yisrael's ability to provide residents with a broad framework that sees the whole person, not only their therapeutic needs, but also their wishes, abilities, dignity and daily life.

During the visit, the long-standing cooperation between the Bnei Brak Municipality and the Perach Yisrael network was also highlighted. For more than a decade, Perach Yisrael has operated for the municipality a broad system of afternoon programs and summer camps in Bnei Brak, serving about 5,000 children in hundreds of frameworks. The activity takes place both in regular educational institutions and in special education settings, and reflects an ongoing professional relationship based on trust, accumulated experience and deep familiarity with the needs of the city's education system.

The director general of the Perach Yisrael network, Rabbi Moshe Stein, spoke about the great responsibility borne by those involved in education, especially in early childhood and the first years of life. Rabbi Stein emphasized that professional, sensitive and appropriate investment in a child at an early stage is not limited to a specific response to an educational or therapeutic need, but may affect the entire course of the child's life. According to him, דווקא at a young age, when the soul is still being formed and abilities are developing, every personal approach, every correct diagnosis, every adapted treatment and every strengthening given at the right time can open new doors for the child and give them strength that will accompany them for years.

The director general also praised the education staff of the Bnei Brak Municipality, who work with young souls and with the sensitivity required to see each child, their needs, strengths and uniqueness. He noted that Perach Yisrael's broad activity, spread across a variety of frameworks throughout the country, is built on the same approach, not to wait for difficulties to deepen, but to provide early responses, invest in young ages, build a professional framework and give every child the tools to progress, grow and, with God's help, reach the best place for them.

Participating on behalf of the Bnei Brak Municipality were Rabbi Moshe Rosenthal, head of the Education Administration, Rabbi Shmuel Dadon, head of the Licensing Department, Rabbi Aharon Zlats, head of the Afternoons and Early Childhood Department, Rabbi Yehuda Levy, deputy head of the Education Administration and head of the Special Education Department, Rabbi Shimon Kashash, head of the Elementary, High School and 360 Department, Rabbi Eldad Ashuri, head of the Youth Department, and Rabbi Yosef Stahl, deputy head of the Education Department and head of the Kindergartens Department.

Perach Yisrael said the tour was meaningful and beneficial, and that it strengthened the professional familiarity between the two sides. According to the organizers, the participants left the visit with important insights both into Perach Yisrael's nationwide activity and into the unique model of the community village in Rosh HaAyin, which combines professionalism, sensitivity, dedication and a broad understanding of residents' needs.