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Chaim Peri (born September 10, 1941) is an Israeli educator, thinker and social activist, founder of the ‎Village Way Educational Initiatives project and head of Yemin Orde Youth Village for almost three ‎decades. Chaim Peri, who has created the Village Way educational methodology, was honored in 2005 ‎with lighting a ceremonial torch on Israel’s Independence Day. ‎

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‎Personal life and public service

‎Honors and awards

‎Books written

‎External links

‎References

Personal life and public service‎

Chaim Peri was born in Tel Aviv in 1941 to Nathan and Zina Pariser, who had immigrated to pre-State ‎Israel from German. Chaim was raised in Akko, and in his youth studied at the Kfar HaRoeh Yeshiva. ‎After his mandatory military service, he married Shulamith Weinberg, a public health nurse, and the ‎couple moved to the town of Netivot (then A’zata) to engage in educating new immigrants.‎ His work in the field of education began in the early 1960’s, as member of a commune of educators ‎established in Sderot by the revered Jerusalemite educator, the late Shimon Ben Pazi. During those ‎years, Peri began to crystalize an educational methodology that focuses on the distinct emotional ‎needs of immigrant children and youth. In 1976, he was sent to the United States on behalf of the ‎Jewish Agency as a consultant on Jewish education. At the same time, he served as pedagogical ‎consultant for the Schechter Day School Network. During those years, Peri completed his doctorate ‎studies in education at The Jewish Theological Seminary.‎ Before 1979, his educational roles included running Chazon Ovadia elementary school in Beersheba, ‎serving as the educational and administrational head of the Shafir Regional Council’s junior high ‎school, teaching and educating at the Bnei Akiva Or Etzion Yeshiva, and running the Givat Washington ‎high school.‎ In 1979 he began his term as head of Yemin Orde Youth Village, where he developed the Village Way ‎educational philosophy and methodology. The Village Way regards adolescence as a brief window of ‎opportunity, in which skillful and deliberate educational intervention can stabilize the lives of youth ‎from chaotic backgrounds. The Village Way uses a unique educational terminology, which serves as a ‎tool to counteract difficult social realities, characterized by conflicting signals. ‎ In 1981, Peri was one of the founders of the community settlement Hoshaya in the Lower Galilee.‎ In 1992 he co-founded, with Rabbi Menachem Waldman, the Shvut Am Institute at Yemin Orde, ‎addressing the identity conflicts of adolescent immigrants.‎ In 2000, together with Eyal Eldar, he established the Yemin Orde Mechina, a young leadership ‎program for immigrant youth based in the Upper Galilee town of Hatzor.‎ In 2006 he resigned from running Yemin Orde, and with peers from the village and beyond launched ‎the Village Way Educational Initiatives project, which strives to improve realities in educational settings ‎throughout Israel, spreading the Village Way method. Chaim Peri is active within this framework to ‎this day.‎ Chaim and Shulamith have five sons.‎

‎Honors and awards

‎1998 and 2014: recipient of the World of Children Award ‎2013 – receives an honorary doctorate of Humane Letters from Brandeis University ‎ ‎2007 – receives the Exemplary Educator Award from Levinsky College of Education, Tel Aviv and ‎Lifshitz College of Education, Jerusalem. ‎ ‎2005 – lights a ceremonial torch on Israel’s Independence Day, in recognition of his committed work in ‎the field of immigrant absorption, advancing the social integration of immigrant youth.‎ ‎1996 – receives Prime Minister Shimon Peres' "Guardian of the Child" Award.‎

‎Books written ‎

Teenagers Educated the Village Way - 2011, Publisher: This World group

External links https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%97%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9D_%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%99

www.yeminorde.org

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd6Z9DAQZoc&t=30s

References