ELEM is a Non Profit Organisation for runaway, homeless and neglected Israeli and Arab youth in distress.
Spearheaded by an Israeli Family Court Judge in 1982, a small group of professional and lay people got together in America with two main interests – Israel and children. They began to learn about the problems of youth in distress in Israel. The statistics were staggering. Over 25,000 Israeli youth neither worked nor went to school and over 10,000 youth went through the Juvenile Court each year for delinquencies. These youth represented 10% of all Israeli youth between the ages of 14-18 and their problems were unknown and ignored by large sectors of the Israeli population. These youth had no advocates and there were few facilities or funds available to help them. |
