- NAALE Program
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NAALE Program (Hebrew: נעל"ה) is a program sponsored by the Israeli Government and Sochnut (Jewish Agency for Israel) that allows Jewish teenagers from the diaspora to graduate high-schools in Israel and achieve high-school diploma (complete matriculation exams). During the period the project NAALE exists, over 10,000 teenagers that came to Israel without their parents graduated Israeli high-schools.
The word "NAALE" is a Hebrew acronym of "Teenagers Emigrating Before Parents" (Hebrew: נוער עולה לפני ההורים).
General information
During 1992-1993 the Ministry of Education began their work on establishment of the NAALE program with the initiative of the Israeli Government. The main reason for this action was numerous petitions from Jewish parents living in CIS asking the Israeli Government to allow their children to study in Israel.
In 1994-1995 the Israeli Government decided to pass the responsibility for this program to Sohnut and "Aliyat ha-Noar".
By the end of 1995, the Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, just few days before his death, transferred the responsibility for this program back to the authority of the Ministry of Education.
Nowadays, the program is carried out by the "Association of Promotion of Education in Israel" – a society established by the initiative of the Ministry of Education. The management of NAALE includes the following departments: Education and Distribution, Dept. of communication with countries abroad (Russia, Western Europe, Latin America, France, English–speaking countries), Dept. of medicine, Administration and Dept. responsible for integration of pupils. The management of NAALE is responsible for acceptance of the students and supports the schools, students and their parents. The advertisements and promotion for new participants are organized by Sohnut agents. The responsibility of Sochnut also includes the preparation of teenagers before their first visit to Israel, the arrival arrangements and the communication with the teenagers' families at the homeland.
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