Featuring Gesher Alumni: Raz Tamari and Yael Elimelech
Raz Tamari and Yael Elimelech met on a Gesher Leadership Institute course in 2014. Raz at the time was the director of the “Golden Care—Mediterranean” Medical Center for rehabilitation of chronic care and geriatric patients. Among other positions, Yael had served as a national training supervisor for Tzemech, an organization that promotes the employment of Haredi women.
It just so happened to be that while they were on the course, Raz was looking to fill a number of positions in his company and Yael was looking to find employment for some Haredi women. Raz and Yael decided to pool their areas of expertise and became the solutions to each other problems. They designed a program that successfully integrated 17 ultra-Orthodox women at the service and sales centers for the largest private health care provider in Israel! The shared work environment provided the employees an opportunity to relate to each other not as “Haredi” or “secular” but simply as co-workers. If it were not for the Gesher Leadership course, Raz and Yael would not have met and they would not have designed such a great program!