Safe Harbor is an academic, training, documentary and research organization, whose purpose is to provide information, training and support for the therapists and other professionals who are in professional contact with the families of the missing, the kidnapped, the hostages, and those who have returned from captivity, and the additional circles of harm that include a close community and those close to them.

 

Safe Harbor was established as a professional home for treatment and training in the field of missing persons, abductees, hostages, returnees from captivity and their families, at the Mifrasim Institute, which deals with the training of professionals in the spirit of integration in psychotherapy, in the School of Behavioral Sciences at the Tel Aviv-Yafo Academic College. The establishment of Safe Harbor It was made possible thanks to a generous donation from the Jewish Federation of San Francisco, which took on the task of raising the resources to deal with this difficult and complex issue. in the area, including women, men, elderly, teenage boys and girls, children, girls, toddlers and babies.

 

Galit Itzhaki Draizin and Prof. Karen Shalev joined together with an international circle of experts to create an immediate organizational framework that would allow for a therapeutic emotional response, both urgent and long-term, on the subject of the dim loss in its various circles. Dr. Sharon Ziv Bayman from the Mifrasim Institute was mobilized together with the faculty of the institute and the college to promote the development of the center.