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| Homepage |  | Crime Prevention | | Case Studies | | Hisdai Eliezer, head of the Alfei Menashe Local Council: “Metzila's activities ... have contributed to the improvement of the quality of life in Alfei Menashe.” |
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| Hisdai Eliezer, head of the Alfei Menashe Local Council: “Metzila's activities ... have contributed to the improvement of the quality of life in Alfei Menashe.” |
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| 01/01/07 |
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“Metsila's activities for the prevention of violence have contributed to the improvement of the quality of life in Alfei Menashe,” Hisdai Eliezer, Head of the Alfei Menashe Local Council, said during a visit that Brigadier General (res.) Ya'akov Go'az, Director of the Ministry of Public Security's Community and Crime Prevention Division, Metsila, recently paid to that community. Go'az was accompanied on his visit by Commander Asher Ben Baruch, the division's deputy director, and members of Metsila's headquarters.
The visit to Alfei Menashe's Metsila branch started at the bureau of council head Eliezer, where Go'az was given a survey of Metsila's activities in the community by Eliezer and the local Metsila coordinator, Gadi Manheim. The meeting was also attended by Zvika Elad, deputy council head; Etti Mederer, head of Alfei Menashe's social service department; Ornit Abramovich, chairperson of Metsila volunteers in the community; and Danny Peleg, director of the local education department and the Alfei Menashe community center.
Among the projects mentioned in the survey were a dog-training workshop and a music workshop for at-risk youths, a Parents' Patrol, and workshops for the empowerment of parental authority.
Addressing the participants in this meeting, Eliezer stressed Metsila's significant contribution in its six years of activities in Alfei Menashe toward the reduction of violence and vandalism in the community. “I really believe in this body, Metsila, and in its ability to save and amend society,” he stated.
The main portion of the visit was devoted to a tour of the two local schools, Tzofeh Sharon and Hatzav, where the HAREL program is being run. The program is being conducted with the collaboration of the local council and Metsila, which have linked themselves up with the educational project being operated by Professor Amos Rolider of the Emek Yizre'el (Jezreel Valley) College.
HAREL (Hebrew acronym for Attention, Restraint, Self-Control, Sensitivity, Self-Containment, Love and Learning) is a systemic-educational project that mobilizes local communities and, in particular, their school system in activities designed to prevent violence, improve scholastic performance and the climate in local schools, and reinforce self-confidence.
The HAREL program has brought about a significant improvement in the climate of Alfei Menashe's schools. In the last measurement conducted in Alfei Menashe, it was discovered that, over a three-year period, verbal harassment among students declined by 34 percent in the Hatzav Junior High School and by 38 percent in the Tzofeh Sharon elementary school. The percentage of students who believed that “on most days I enjoy going to school” rose during this period by 12 percent at Hatzav and 25 percent at Tzofeh Sharon.
In the course of the tour of the two schools, the principals, Rivka Mendel and Shula Ronen, admitted that HAREL had reduced sources of friction in the schoolyard and had diminished violence; had improved the work of the educational team; had resulted in the proper, systematic management of classroom lessons; had upgraded the atmosphere in their schools; and had enhanced the level of the students' scholastic performance.
A., a grade 4 pupil at Tzofeh Sharon: “The HAREL program has made me more responsible, and I now make sure to always bring all the required materials to school and to keep my desk clean.”
Council head Eliezer: “The HAREL program has had a positive effect on overall behavior in the community and has made us a healthier society.”
Summing up the visit, Go'az emphasized the importance of the program being conducted in Alfei Menashe for reducing violence. He called for continued, fruitful cooperation between the local council and Metsila in the implementation of the HAREL project.
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| During the Visit to Alfei Menashe's Metsila branch |
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