{"id":6851,"date":"2025-12-08T12:13:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T10:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colab.org.il\/member\/benny-fisher\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T11:18:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T09:18:17","slug":"benny-fisher","status":"publish","type":"member","link":"https:\/\/staging.colab.org.il\/en\/member\/benny-fisher\/","title":{"rendered":"Benny Fisher"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Benny Fisher, Deputy CEO of the Da\u2019at Education Network, leads the organization\u2019s education and treatment programs. The network operates educational and therapeutic institutions in Israel\u2019s social periphery. Previously, he served as Director of the Administration of Rural Education and Youth Aliyah at the Ministry of Education; CEO of Yemin Orde Youth Village, which primarily serves immigrant youth; and founder and director of the Melkisho\u2019a Therapeutic Community for youth struggling with drug addiction. In addition, he lectured on addictions in the Department of Criminology at Western Galilee College, and served as a supervisor of youth-at-risk residential facilities in the Northern District of the Ministry of Welfare. <br\/>He holds a bachelor\u2019s degree in Education from the Jerusalem College; a master\u2019s degree in Educational Administration from the University of Derby; and a PhD in Education from E\u00f6tv\u00f6s Lor\u00e1nd University (ELTE) in Budapest, Hungary, where his dissertation focused on the therapeutic community as a tool for rehabilitating at-risk adolescents. <br\/>He lives in Kibbutz Meirav on Mount Gilboa, is married to Esther, and is the father of five. Throughout his educational career, Benny has been guided by the Talmudic teaching, \u201cBeware of the children of the poor, for from them Torah will emerge.\u201d He has sought to learn from the wisdom and resilience found in the \u201cbackyards\u201d of society and to bring about positive change within them. Since October 7, he has felt an even deeper responsibility to work with partners in every possible way to help shape a better society.     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy CEO for Education and Therapeutic Services<br \/>&#8220;Daat&#8221; Education Network<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6719,"template":"","categories":[],"tags":[],"period":[70],"class_list":["post-6851","member","type-member","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","period---10-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.colab.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/member\/6851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.colab.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/member"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.colab.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/member"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.colab.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.colab.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.colab.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.colab.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6851"},{"taxonomy":"period","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.colab.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/period?post=6851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}