30 Jan 2012
Our Centers are busy assisting out low-income clients across the country, from Safed in the North to Rahat in the South. The following are a few recent success stories
08 Jan 2012
YEDID launches a public campaign led by MK Isaac Herzog and supported by many Israeli celebs promoting a bill that will create a mandatory savings account for every child.
25 Dec 2011
The Knesset passes a YEDID initiated bill to abolish early redemption fines on mortgages of repossessed homes. The new law means that people forced to sell their homes will not be punished by further monetary losses.
25 Dec 2011
YEDID´s recent focus on employment law litigation sees us leading the fight against "disappearing" contract companies who neglect to pay salaries or compensation to employees. Earlier this month, three new immigrant workers won $13,000 in the Be´er Sheva Labor Court.
25 Dec 2011
Veteran Tel Aviv Citizen Rights Center volunteer, Varda Bar Lev, receives Tel Aviv Municipality´s Volunteer of the Year Award
25 Dec 2011
Meirav Amir brings years of empowerment experience to YEDID from Israel and abroad. She has been directing the Tel Mond Citizen Rights Center since its opening nearly two years ago.
25 Dec 2011
In 2011 YEDID has run successful employment empowerment programs in cities across Israel. Over 60% of participants find work or begin vocational training at the conclusion of their programs.
25 Dec 2011
Dr. Yosef Gotlieb is generously donating $2 to YEDID for every book purchased by a YEDID supporter. Rise, A Novel of Contemporary Israel, is set in today´s Israel, and deals with many of the social issues that YEDID faces on a daily basis.
30 Nov 2011
A group of single mothers have decided that it is time for a change in the Child Support Law. YEDID is accompanying them—supplying useful tools for social change as well as legal, political, and media aid.
30 Nov 2011
31 Ethiopian immigrant children started grade one with confidence this year, thanks to YEDID´s MILIM program.
06 Nov 2011
MK Eitan Cabel is to submit a bill drafted by YEDID urging the government to give realistic financial aid to persons eligible for public housing.
06 Nov 2011
YEDID Lawyer Shani Rabinowitz succeeded in establishing a precedent that the Repossession Authority cannot punish debtors with a monetary fine.
18 Sep 2011
As YEDID takes action in the broader struggle for social rights engulfing the country over the summer, we are continuing our daily work of ensuring our clients receive quality assistance in a wide range of areas.
18 Sep 2011
YEDID initiates coalition of social welfare organizations and demands that the Housing Ministry provide affordable housing to young couples and weaker sectors. An appeal to the Supreme Court is in the works.
18 Sep 2011
With the new partnership between YEDID and the Israeli Union of Environmental Defense (Adam Teva V´Din), YEDID clients can now seek solutions to health and environmental issues at YEDID Citizen Rights Centers
28 Aug 2011
“Only legislating a ‘Basic Law of Social Rights’ will prove to the Israeli public that the government it elected is serious about changing its social-economic policies,” insists YEDID Deputy Director, Ran Malamed.
28 Aug 2011
YEDID’s Sari Revkin joins 24 Israeli social investors at the 7th “Investors in a Good Society” meeting, a Shetufim Center for Philanthropy program, to discuss the burning issues on the new social-economic agenda that began with the protest six weeks ago.
28 Aug 2011
YEDID has requested permission in the Jerusalem Labor Court to file a 588 million shekel class action law suit against 20 home healthcare companies operating throughout the country. The suit demands that these companies pay their employees – especially their female workers – for time spent traveling from one client to the next.
21 Aug 2011
At the request of MK Ruchama Avraham and YEDID, the Knesset Center for Research and Information commissioned a public opinion survey in March 2010 about Israel´s middle class and its reaction to the economic situation. At the time, few paid much attention to clear findings of deep anger and frustration.
21 Aug 2011
Jerusalem Center volunteer’s compassion, determination, and out of the box thinking motivates the electric company and a Jerusalem electrician to give light and dignity to a woman in Jerusalem.
21 Aug 2011
YEDID Volunteers and lawyers offer information, advice and legal aid to tent protestors on Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv.
13 Aug 2011
YEDID intern Joshua Schaffer visits English Online, YEDID´s afterschool program in Ofakim
06 Aug 2011
39% support barring foreign ownership in city center if apartment remains empty most of year
01 Aug 2011
The Government announced it will subsidize up to 70% of the cost of youth trips to Poland. And the remaining 30%? YEDID and our Ashkelon Citizens Organizing for Change initiated the campaign and now call upon the Minister of Education to adopt a plan to allow students to work in exchange for the rest of the cost of the trip.
01 Aug 2011
A determined struggle led by Irena Luria, Director of YEDID´s Mobile Health and Rights Center, secured a significant reimbursement from the National Insurance Institute for a YEDID client. Only because of YEDID´s model of holistic assistance was Maria able to receive all the rights and benefits due her by law
23 Jul 2011
The Ministry of Welfare and the Rashi Foundation accept YEDID and MK Ruchama Avraham’s initiative for a pilot program to provide hot lunches during school vacation for children of low-income families.
23 Jul 2011
YEDID´s Petach Tikvah Citizen´s Rights Center recently implemented a Financial Management Training course for Ethiopian immigrants
23 Jul 2011
"I heartily recommend to anyone wishing to volunteer, or anyone who needs help, to come to the warm, dedicated and professional people at YEDID in Tel Mond."
29 Jun 2011
11 May 2011
In honor of the upcoming Seder night, YEDID in Hatzor Haglilit was able to close a couple´s ten-year debt. Result: a happy holiday.
From The Press
30 Jan 2012
In Israel’s jump from socialism to capitalism over the past decade, the safety net has frayed, leaving some 1.7 million Israelis below the poverty line
08 Jan 2012
“How long are we going to stay?” asked Sari. “Till we win,” replied her father
20 Dec 2011
מאות אלפי שוכרים ומשכירי דירות מגורים יסכימו כנראה רק על דבר אחד - התערבות הממשלה בענף הפרוץ היא מינימלית; חוק חדש, הפעם לטובת המשכירים, מוכיח עד כמה הסדרת הענף היא דבר לא פשוט
26 Oct 2011
Social NGOs and politicians cooperate to move social protests "from the tents to the Knesset" with bills complimenting Trajtenberg proposals.
26 Oct 2011
The Public Utilities Authority approved a further 4.7% increase in electricity rates, following a rise of close to 10% in August.
08 Oct 2011
Examples are rife today of people who silence the voice of their conscience and justify a misdeed by arguing that ´it´s all legal.´ Such acts, not necessarily physical in nature, may not be illicit but they are patently immoral.
18 Sep 2011
July 14, the day the battle began for the right to a roof over one’s head, will be recorded as a landmark date in Israel’s history.
06 Sep 2011
The Social Protest in Israel is at a crossroads
28 Aug 2011
Israel’s tent protest movement, which less than three weeks ago could rally hundreds of thousands of protestors and force the government to address their demands, seems to be waning as the summer draws to a close.
20 Aug 2011
According to a survey conducted earlier this year, 55% of all Israelis have an extremely difficult time paying their mortgages.
15 Aug 2011
54,000 of 1.5 million mortgages are in arrears, and 1,500 homes a foreclosed a year
14 Aug 2011
The protest that started out with an upper-middle class seeing itself as a persecuted minority has truly become universal.
13 Aug 2011
YEDID” means “friend” in Hebrew, explained Sari Revkin, the founder and executive director of Israel’s primary non-profit providing social and legal assistance to low-income citizens, empowering them to break the cycle of poverty
06 Aug 2011
Tents and guitars at a campsite can be a lot of fun, but if you want those nights to be leveraged into a successful protest, you´ve got to know what you´re talking about.
An abridged guide to those lost in the real estate market (in other words, all of us)
01 Aug 2011
Demonstrators Reject Netanyahu´s Plan as Inadequate
25 Jun 2011
As deputy director of YEDID, a non¬profit organization lobbying for social and economic empowerment, Ran Melamed is no stranger to speaking out for social empowerment. He has worked for more than 25 years in marketing communications, public relations and event management. He is also a musician and photographer
25 Jun 2011
The Minister of Industry, Trade and Labor endorses the model developed by YEDID´s Ashkelon Citizens Organizing for Change group. According to the plan, students will work during their summer vacation in return for a stipend for a trip to Poland with their classmates
25 Jun 2011
In honor of Israeli Independence Day, Safed Center Director Sharli Shriki is named one of the most important social leaders in northern Israel
