October 7th has been very personal to all of us at ELEM. We have lost four incredible volunteers:
Yasmin Bira of Kibbutz Be’eri has been mentoring a young woman as part of our Young Mothers at Risk program. After a few days of uncertainty, we’ve learned that Yasmin and her family have been murdered by Hamas on October 7th.
Yonatan Richter, Lior Hadad, and Sigal Levy were all volunteers with ELEM’s Good People program. As part of the program, we send our vans with teams to mass gatherings and rave parties to provide immediate mental support to distressed youth in real-time, due to substance use, violence, and more.
ELEM sent nine volunteers to the Nova Music Festival, but only 6 returned. We’ve lost Yonatan, Lior, and Sigal, who were all incredible people who helped others until the last minute. Sigal was also a former employee of ELEM.
