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about a successful absorption of immigrants

Hamifal's dedicated supporters and friends have recently become acquainted with the organization's role in the absorption of new immigrants. During its 65 years of work, Hamifal has successfully brought about the successful absorption of many new immigrant children. Since Hamifal's establishment in 1943, its establisher, Mrs. Reha Frier z"l, has been sending here orphans - Holocaust survivors for agricultural training on Kibbutzim and agricultural settlements. Those children have been treated like children whose families have been living outside the kibbutz, and were absorbed in the Kibbutzim's children's quarters. During the fifties, Hamifal has absorbed many children from families who have immigrated from North African countries and were undergoing extreme socio-economic difficulties. During the eighties Hamifal has been integrating Ethiopian kids who have emigrated with their families from Ethiopia in the Moses' Sons operation. During the nineties, as the iron curtain went down and the wave of Russian Jews had arrived, Hamifal has managed to integrate some of its children in its frameworks.

Hamifal's success in this field has become an outcome of extensive experience, professional skills, and the work of its dedicated teams as well as thanks to its moral and financial support. There is not doubt that an out- of-home framework in general, and a family model, specifically had a tremendous impact on the absorption of immigrants, turning an intercultural process into a melting pot of children from different cultural backgrounds and internalizing Israeli values.