Ultra-Orthodox member Shmuel Chaim Pappenheim was accepted to study at the Mandel Institute - a special institute for educational leadership studies in Israel.
""This is a project that only a few people are accepted into, after passing a series of tests," Pappenheim tells Haredim10. "The studies themselves take place three days a week, and the students are paid a very high salary so that they can sit and study.
""During the program, students are required to establish educational initiatives for the younger generation. My plan is to open an institute for the study of the cultural and legal discourse of the State of Israel, without political or religious ties to people from the Haredi sector.".
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""Of course, that's my desire now, but it could change several times during my studies.".
Pappenheim, 41, is a father of 15 and grandfather of five grandchildren, whose picture he carries on the bunch of keys attached to him.
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""I got through it. My goal is to promote and succeed in changing the culture and influencing the education of the future generation.".
The Mandel Institute for Leadership was founded in Jerusalem in 1990 by the Mandel Foundation, in collaboration with the Ministry of Education. The institute offers a variety of educational and social leadership development programs, aimed at contributing to the prosperity of the State of Israel and all its communities.
The founding idea of the Mandel Institute for Leadership is to cultivate visionary leaders who will be agents of change leading educational organizations and initiatives in Israel and in Jewish communities around the world.
Participants in the Mandel Institute for Leadership programs come with diverse professional backgrounds in the public sector, social entrepreneurship, non-profit organizations, and the IDF. The director of the institute since 2007 is Dr. Eli Gottlieb.
