What's happening inside the home, in the words of the people who work there. We publish updates from each of the four programs, milestones the home has reached, and notes from the founder's grandson.
Once a year we write to the whole home - every family, every monthly donor - about the year behind us: the girls who arrived, the ones who graduated, and the things we did not get right.
Forty-two boys finished the full twelve months of Beyachad - the home's first day program for boys from divorced families. The retention number is the one we keep looking at.
When my grandfather opened the door in 1949, he opened it for twenty-four girls. We now serve more than eight hundred children. The question I am asked most often is whether the home has lost something on the way.
Purim and Shushan Purim fell on consecutive days this year, which meant the home celebrated twice. The kitchen produced 1,400 mishloach manos. Three girls who had never asked for a costume asked for one.
The Israeli Ministry of Welfare licensed seventeen new social workers in the February 2026 cohort. Every one of them is a former resident of Bayit Lepleitot or Nivcheret. We do not think this is a coincidence.
After two years of operating out of Jerusalem and Bnei Brak, Bishvilech has opened its third location - in Be'er Sheva. Forty girls enrolled in the first month. The waitlist is already at sixty.
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