The Technion
The founder of the Sakta-Rashi Foundation, Gustav Laban, and the director of the foundation, Eli Alalof, today inaugurated the laboratories of the Kerso Youth Wing at the Center for Pre-Academic Education at the Technion, which were equipped by the foundation. The president of the Technion, Professor Yitzhak Apluig, noted the extensive activities of the foundation during the last war, in which it delivered hundreds of thousands of hot meals and food rations to the residents of the north who were staying in shelters, sent 1,500 young people from the north to scientific summer camps in the south of the country and organized vacations in the south for more than 9,000 parents and children from the north. "The activities of the pre-academic center at the Technion, which are designed to promote and bring young people closer to science and university education, are in line with the spirit of the Sakta-Rashi Foundation, its goals and vision," said Professor Apluig.
The director of the Center for Pre-Academic Education at the Technion, Professor Shimon Gapstein, said that 60% of the youth who participate in it are accepted at the end of the process to the Technion.
The Chairman of the Association of Technion Applicants in Israel, Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Amos Horev, said that his friend Eli Alalof put the foundation in the center of education, giving and support in Israel. "Education is a long but rewarding process," he said. "At the end of it, if he succeeds, he will achieve social justice and closing gaps in Israeli society."
Eli Alalof said that the Technion proved that excellence is not related to the elite, and this is a huge achievement of his. "You proved that everyone can express their abilities. Excellence must not be associated only with the elites."
The Sakta-Rashi Foundation is the central and leading foundation in Israel in the field of education, working with at-risk youth, supporting vulnerable populations and closing gaps in Israeli society.
