Azrieli Foundation announces new award designed for diverse workforce

The Azrieli Foundation is offering a $100,000 prize for Canadian businesses that employ people who are neurodivergent, Naomi Azrieli, CEO of the foundation, announced at a press conference March 22. The competitive award, called the INfinity Prize, is intended to help both non-profit and for-profit businesses that are already employing neurodivergent employees expand or become […]
Azrieli Foundation paired Holocaust survivors with volunteer writers to ensure their life stories are preserved

Yvette Newman had always told her children and grandchildren about her idyllic childhood in Slovakia, as well as life during the Holocaust when her family was ultimately deported to the concentration camps. But there was no written record preserving her story for future generations, until an innovative program developed by the Azrieli Foundation matched her […]
Azrieli Foundation’s latest donation will greatly expand autism research in Israel

The Azrieli Foundation will donate $15.6 million to further autism research at two Israeli institutions, it announced Oct. 29. The funds will go to the National Autism Research Centre of Israel, a collaboration between scientists from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and clinicians from Soroka University Medical Center, both based in Be’er Sheva. In honour […]
Beloved Yiddish actor Pinchas Blitt is toasted on his 90th birthday (and memoir launch)

“On the stage, I am a different person. I lose my shyness and inhibitions; I become the character.”