Emergency Response · Since October 7
When war broke everything, we kept children moving Movement creates resilience. Resilience creates hope.
Stronger
than life
15,000+
Children & youth reached since the beginning of the war
Hundreds
of Families in weekly emergency programs
35
Municipalities served nationwide
who we are
Sport as a tool
for healing.
Haredim LaKetzev is an Israeli nonprofit using sports, movement, and martial arts as tools for resilience, emotional healing, education, and community empowerment.
Founded and led by Miki Chayat — European Capoeira Champion — the organization operates culturally adapted programs for children, youth at risk, women, families, and diverse communities across Israel, with a special focus on the Haredi sector.
Since October 7, the organization significantly expanded its emergency response, creating trauma-informed resilience programs for children and families affected by war, displacement, fear, and ongoing insecurity.
"Therapy disguised as training."
Our core model
Emergency Initiative
"Stronger Than Life"
Following October 7 and the ongoing war, we launched a nationwide emergency initiative. Our core belief is simple:
movement creates resilience.
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Online National Emergency Programs
During intense security periods, we launched nationwide Zoom programming: movement & fitness for children, breathing & Pilates for women, fitness for seniors, and stress-reduction sessions.
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Evacuee Hotel Programs
Resilience activities inside evacuation hotels for displaced families and children — structured sports, emotional support, parent-child workshops, and full recreational resilience days.
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Children & Youth Resilience
Capoeira and martial arts activities, trauma-informed sports sessions, emotional regulation through movement, group resilience circles, confidence building — including activities near shelters during sirens.
Beit Shemesh
Jerusalem
Bnei Brak
Haifa
Rehovot
Petah Tikva
Ofakim
Sderot
Be'er Sheva
₪50,000 / mo
Evacuation Hotel Program
~350 participants across 4 hotels
Our Reach
Across
israel
Programs delivered both in-person and online via Zoom during emergency restrictions reaching communities from Sderot to Haifa, from Ofakim to Jerusalem.
Make a Difference
Help a child
breathe again.
Your donation funds instructors, social workers, equipment, transportation, and emergency trauma-informed activities for children and families in crisis.
Creating spaces
where children can
smile again.
Haredim LaKetzev is not only teaching sports. It is creating safe spaces where children can breathe again, move again, smile again — and slowly rebuild trust, confidence, and resilience in the shadow of war.
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