Students from the Pesifas Special Education School joined the " Gedolim Be’Madim " program and served in the Kfir Unit as part of a significant volunteer effort to contribute to the country.
Last week, seven students of the Pesifas Special Education School: Noam Ben Eli, Itay Levena, Liel Levy, Hila Or Cohen, Eyal Yehuda, Tamir Dor and Itay Yedid Goldman, joined the circle of volunteers for the IDF. In this way, they too, regardless of their limitations and diagnoses, they will contribute to the national effort like all students of the city, known for its high recruitment rates to the IDF.
The project, which was carried out for the first time with the school, is led by the " Gedolim Be’Madim " association with the support of the municipality and in cooperation with Nesher cement factory, which adopted the children into a new unit, the Nesher Unit.
In an exciting ceremony held at the Kfir Unit at the Maccabim Checkpoint, the opening of the Nesher Unit was inaugurated, with the participation of the Mayor Haim Bibas, and the CEO of the Nesher Idan Zo-Eretz factory. The students received their uniforms and thus became an integral part of the IDF system.
The students will spend their service in the Kfir Unit with ongoing daily tasks that assist the unit, such as folding uniforms, arranging and sorting supplies, and more.
At the ceremony, Mayor Haim Bibas told the excited students and families: "We are here to share together a significant moment of deep faith in the ability of every person to contribute, influence, and be part of our society. The "Gedolim beMadim" program is an excellent example of how the right partnership creates opportunity and real meaning for special girls and teenagers. I have no doubt that your enlistment in the IDF in the Gedolim beMadim program gives you a lot of strength and a great sense of belonging - but know that the IDF receives much more from your contribution."
Principal of Pesifas School, Ella Mor: "You, our dear students, have within you a love of the country, commitment and mutual responsibility, and you take a significant part in the work. Here, each person is measured by their abilities, spirit and contribution, not by external diagnosis or definitions. Integrating young people with special needs into the IDF is not only a social correction, but also a model for a healthy society, for mutual responsibility, for the duty and right of every person to give of themselves to others."
