Bishvilech opens a third location in the south.

Bishvilech is the home's day program for girls ages ten to sixteen from divorced families. Like Beyachad, it is not residential - the girls go home at the end of the day. Unlike the residential programs, Bishvilech runs in the late afternoon and early evening, on the assumption that the hardest part of a girl's day in a divorced household is not the morning. It is the four hours between when school ends and when one of her parents gets home from work.

The first Bishvilech location opened in Jerusalem in 2022. The second opened in Bnei Brak in 2024. The third opened in Be'er Sheva on January 12, 2026.

We chose Be'er Sheva for three reasons. First, the divorce rate in the south has been climbing for a decade and is now higher than the national average. Second, there are fewer existing after-school programs in Be'er Sheva than in Jerusalem or Bnei Brak - meaning more girls who fall through. Third, a former graduate of the home, who now lives in Be'er Sheva, walked into our office last summer with a folder of letters from sixty mothers in her neighborhood. The letters all said the same thing in different words: my daughter needs somewhere to go.

The Be'er Sheva location enrolled forty girls in its first month. The waitlist is at sixty. We expect to add a fourth Bishvilech location in 2027 - likely in Ashdod, where the same pattern is emerging.

Every Bishvilech location is built around the same five-hour structure: snack, homework, a one-hour skills block (cooking, sewing, financial literacy, depending on age), a one-hour mentor session, and dinner. Girls who attend Bishvilech five days a week for a full year show, on average, a one-and-a-half grade-level improvement in school. That is not the metric we are most proud of. The metric we are most proud of is that 94% of the girls in the first cohort are still enrolled three years later.

- Rabbi Rosenfeld