Jude Yovel Recanati, NATAL's co-Founder and Chairperson, is a social activist who has devoted her life to strengthening and empowering Israeli society. Born in Tel Aviv and educated at the Herzylia Gymnasia, Jude was an active leader within the Israel Scouts movement, and served as a nursing officer within the Women's Corps of the Israel Defense Forces. At the end of her military service, Jude studied psychology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. During the Yom Kippur war she returned to...

Dr. Yossi Hadar z"l, NATAL's co-Founder, was born in Belgium in 1946 to parents who had survived the Holocaust. He and his family sailed for Israel on the ship Theodore Herzl, but were captured by the British and sent to a transit camp in Cyprus. They immigrated to Israel on November 29, 1947. During the country's formative years, Yossi and his family lived in the shacks of the Givat Shmuel transit camp and leter settled in Kiryat Israel. Yossi studied medicine at the Hebrew University in...