Shalvi Weissman

Yad Eliezer’s Big Brother Program: An Interview With Eli Yakobi

By Shalvi Weissman

A young man told me he wants to be a big brother. I asked how he heard of us, and he asked me whether I recognized him. Ten years earlier, as the son of divorced impoverished parents, he was suffering socially and academically, and had received a mentor from Yad Eliezer.