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Parents' Room It's an old and respected tradition at the Children's Home that each graduating group creates something durable to leave behind, that will serve the other boys and girls at the Home for many, many years. Continue...

The Children's Home Journal On February 1st, 2011 a short ceremony in the dining-hall before lunch launched the distribution of the Children's Home Journal – a 23-page news magazine, written and edited by the children. Continue...

A Good Word For many years now, there is a weekly ceremony at school called "A Good Word". Continue...

Helping out It's hard to believe, but nearly two years have gone by since the Children's Home moved to its new campus. Continue...

Music and Good People Along The Way The music therapy room at the Children's Home is a happy place, with something always going on – kids playing on guitars and the drums, choir practice in session, listening to discs and discussing the music ,creating melodies on the electric organ. Continue...

New Sappers Team The Jerusalem Police Sappers Unit is situated in the Old City of Jerusalem. Its members are mobilized to deal with suspicious objects and detonate demolition charges. Continue...

Jerusalem Hills Children's Home / About Us / Executive Board & JHTC Management / Mr. Shalom Doron

Mr. Shalom Doron z"l

Honorary President of the Executive Board

Shalom Doron, [1917-2011] was born in in Vienna and lived in Jerusalem with his wife, Carmela, most of his life. He is considered to be the "godfather" of the Children's Home, having been perhaps the most instrumental in bringing about the permanence and stability of this facility through his endless dedication and tireless efforts for over sixty years.

Shalom Doron convinced the B'nai B'rith Women organization at its 1950 convention in Washington, DC to pass a resolution committing them to support and develop the then-B'nai B'rith Children's Home in Jerusalem. He then led the efforts to locate a site for building a new facility for the Home, which was finally found in 1952 in the Bayit Vagan area of Jerusalem. The final land purchase was confirmed in 1955, following long negotiations with the Israel Land Registry and the Development Authority. Mr. Doron had enlisted the leaders of Israel B'nai B'rith to give their support and prestige, and brought about a government resolution allowing the sale of land to a foreign body.

In 1956, thanks to his ongoing efforts and bringing the weight of his expertise and leadership to bear, Shalom Doron succeeded in bringing about the opening of the new campus in Bayit Vagan and was the major force in hiring Chezzi Cohen as director of the Home, several years later.

Until 1996, Shalom Doron served as Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Children's Home, working unflaggingly for many decades to gain support for the quickly growing facility. In 1996, when the residential treatment center became a registered amutah, Shalom Doron was voted Honorary Chairman, a position he holds till today.

Shalom Doron is a former Director-General and President of ILDC (the Israel Land Development, Ltd.) who has also performed a range of leadership roles on a volunteer basis – in addition to the Children's Home - for B'nai B'rith World Center and the Hebrew University Hillel House.

He served for decades as a judge on the Labor Courts, and has won numerous volunteer awards, most notably the prestigious Yakir Yerushalyaim (Worthy Citizen of Jerusalem) prize from the Jerusalem Municipality.

The history of the JHTC runs parallel to and is inseparable from the personal life history of Shalom Doron, to whom this outstanding facility will forever be indebted.