Last week, a new state-of-the-art day care center in Tel Aviv was inaugurated, giving hundreds of Israeli families cause for celebration. WIZO (Women’s International Zionist Organization) opened the Younes and Soraya Nazarian Day Care and Early Childhood Education Center after receiving funding from the Los Angeles-based Younes and Soraya Nazarian Family Foundation. Currently, WIZO operates 183 daycare centers throughout Israel, caring for 14,000 children between three months and three years of age. The new Nazarian Center will have four classes caring for more than 100 children.
The partnership between the Nazarian Foundation and WIZO dates to Israel’s earliest days in the 1950’s, when the Nazarian family matriarch, Goldbahar Aviva Chachami Nazarian–known to everyone as Ima (“mother” in Hebrew) – volunteered at WIZO facilities after making aliya Israel from Iran.
