Featured Program

Derech Hamelech - King's Way

This program serves to assist teens to return to a normative lifestyle through occupational training and work placement. The program helps to raise self-esteem, develop and improve life skills, develop creativity, independent thinking and initiatives among its participants.

The teens have the opportunity to work at one of the "Spagetim" restaurants which has 15 locations nationwide. There are also a number of teens that work at the Volcani Institute near Ramle. They work alongside scientists from the Institute, growing organic vegetables and selling them to the employees and local residents of the community.

The "Derech Hamelech" project often works in conjunction with "Life Coaches"-- a joint project of ELEM and the Youth Probation Service. The objective is to find a volunteer mentor (similar to the "Big Brothers/Big Sisters" Program) for each juvenile delinquent who acts as a role model. Last year there were 65 mentors in the program in Tel Aviv, Netanya, Rehovot, Migdal Ha’emek, Jerusalem, Kfar Saba and Beersheva.