The Vision of
Pelech
The Tel Aviv District belongs to the Tel Aviv District family of schools located in Jerusalem, Kiryat Ekron, and Zichron Yaakov, and it shares with them the "Spirit of the District," which carries a common educational-values vision. In addition, each of the districts grows in a different geographical and human environment, hence the unique emphases and character of each institution. The Tel Aviv District vision stands on three central pillars:
The religious axis -
Commitment, freedom and pluralism
We strive to educate our students for a meaningful religious life through a combination of freedom and commitment. To this end, various religious models are present at the school and the doors of the Beit Midrash are opened to the students so that each one can find her own personal path in serving God. We believe that it is necessary and possible to create bridges between the Western worldview and the world of faith and commandments, and we encourage openness to the outside world alongside critical, filtering thinking, in the hope that the combination of the two will help build a stable and solid religious world in today's reality.
The human axis -
Teacher-student relationships
Every student and every teacher is a whole person. We strive to establish a personal and open relationship between teachers and students, to enable and invite constant dialogue and discourse, and to base relationships at school on respect, responsibility, and mutual trust. We strive to see the strengths inherent in every student, and to express this view in verbal assessments that replace numerical grades.
The pedagogical axis -
The learning experience
The lessons in the region seek to deviate from the conventional structure of teacher-blackboard-classroom, and to impart knowledge in a real and living way: computerized lessons, educational tours, guided learning in a group, research assignments, and more. In this way, the learning becomes meaningful and relevant and provides students with research and independent thinking skills, the ability to express themselves, teamwork, and other tools that prepare them for the world of tomorrow.
Annual Theme 2026
The "Pelch" school is far more than a place for acquiring knowledge; it is a school that partners in the moral, religious, and human growth of students from Tel Aviv and the central region.
Every year, our community is accompanied by a school motto that guides the discourse during school hours, at special events, and in preparation for the annual holidays. The motto is not just a slogan, it is an anchor and compass through which we are connected to the heart and beating pulse of Israeli society, and touch on the current, emotional, and religious issues that shape our identity.
This year, out of deep listening to the emotions of the times and the strong need for stability and strength of mind, we chose to center our work on the wonderful verse from the Book of Psalms (27): "Strengthen and strengthen your heart, and hope in the Lord." The choice of this verse stemmed from an aspiration to build true resilience and develop a deep ability to handle conflict. From this, we ask that the verse accompany us throughout the year on four central axes: *A look at past successes* - charting our growth path and relying on the experience we have gained. *Choosing value priorities* - focusing on choices that teach us about the values that lead us. *Gratitude* and deep contemplation and appreciation of what exists and what has passed. *Discovering inner strengths* - internalizing and driving the strengths hidden within each and every one of us.
Together, through a connection to the past, gratitude for the present, and faith in the future, we can understand the greatness of the word resilience.
The theme - for the year 2025
One of the greatest blessings that can be bestowed upon a person is taken from the verse in the Book of Proverbs and is recited daily as part of the order of the blessing on food - “And every good thing that is good in the sight of God is blood” (Proverbs 3:4).
This verse reflects an ideal of a harmonious life, in which emotion and intellect are intertwined. The “chen” represents virtues, simplicity, kindness, humanity, and warmth – qualities that appeal to the heart and create closeness; while the “shekel tov” expresses depth, judgment, and moral conduct that stems from the depths of reason and thought, and not just from momentary instinct. The combination of the two is what makes a person a “menetz” – not just wise or moral, but a complete person, living responsibly and pleasantly, and knowing how to maintain both reason and modesty. The Malbim calls this wonderful quality “the pouring out of the Spirit of God upon him.”
As is tradition in the Tel Aviv region, each year there is a leading saying, verse, motto, which is expressed both on a daily basis and at peak events. In preparing for 5750, we found that this blessing of good sense and finding favor in the eyes of God and man is the central voice that we seek to proclaim. We found that finding this simple, yet so huge, grace is needed precisely in times of trouble and distress, in the difficult period that we are going through together with the entire Jewish people.
It is not for nothing that the Torah says of Noah that he "found favor in the eyes of the Lord" and was thus saved from calamity. It turns out that the combination of finding favor in the eyes of both God and man is a complex and complicated combination, but it also contains a correction for the generation of the flood, a return to the basis of life, to simple humanity, and the basis for resurrection and hope.
The theme - for the year 2024
The poet Zelda Schneerson-Mischkowski, in her poem "Peace," beautifully described the delicate connection that exists between one person and another through the thread that connects them: "My peace is tied with a thread to your peace."
Thread is a fiber, a thin thread intended for ties and connections. The delicate threads that make up our lives, when woven with proper sewing, enable reality and creation. Already in the story of the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve sew fig leaves to cover themselves with. The beginning of human creation is in the connection between different parts, and despite the fracture and loss of the dream of the Garden of Eden, God helps Adam and Eve in this work of connection, and He even joins in, as it were, and sews them shirts. In the Book of Ecclesiastes, the same delicate thread is also presented as a source of strength and power, when it is woven into a third knot, "And a threefold thread is not quickly severed" (Ecclesiastes 4:12). This is what the wise man in man seeks to teach us - the wider the circle of connection, the stronger the bond, the thicker the connection, and the delicate thread also enables the hope of truth.
From this request, and after a year that shook (and continues to shake) the earth beneath our feet, our annual theme was chosen to be "My well-being is tied with a thread to your well-being." The "Pelch" School in Tel Aviv, which is inherently located between the worlds of the sacred and the mundane, between tradition and innovation, between past, present and future, is a school of connections and hope. With the belief that a school is a public and community place, it is a living being, as part of a complete whole that includes first and foremost the parents' home, the family and the community. The school is not a bubble, but part of a living and existing fabric, and its role, as part of the educational journey that takes place there, is to weave threads from the inside to the outside, and to receive with open hands threads that are sent to it - from the outside to the inside.
The topic - for the year 2023
From observing the needs of the hour, we sought to focus on the world of the body and mind, which constitutes a significant and central part in the processes of growth, development, and maturation of the students and staff. The wonderful verse, "And you shall rejoice in all the good that the Lord your God has given you" (Deuteronomy 26:11), forms the axis for our thoughts.
Joy in all that is good was a point of view for us, which we wish to emphasize this year – the good that affects the body and soul will also affect the processes of consciousness and thought. From the perspective of girls – “And rejoice in all that is good.” This theme will accompany us in the education classes and also in the annual team training.
Have you done anything for anyone today?
The topic - for the year 2022
From observing the needs of the hour, we sought to focus on the world of the body and mind, which constitutes a significant and central part in the processes of growth, development and maturation of the students and staff. The wonderful verse "And you shall rejoice in all the good that the Lord your God has given you" (Deuteronomy 22:11) forms the axis for our thoughts. Joy in all the good, was a point of view for us, which we
We would like to emphasize this year – the good that affects the body and mind will also affect consciousness and thought processes.
From the perspective of girls – “And you rejoiced in all good things.” This theme will accompany us in the education classrooms and also in the annual team training.
The topic - for the year 2021
It is narrated in Tractate Eruvin (55b-55a) about Bruria, the wife of Rabbi Meir, when she visited the Beit Midrash (cited in the Steinsaltz translation): Bruria found one student who was studying in a whisper (and did not raise his voice in his study). She kicked him. She said to him: Isn't it written (2 Samuel 23:5) "prepared in all your limbs and preserved"? (meaning:) If the Torah is prepared in your two hundred and forty-eight limbs (meaning that you exert yourself in it with your body) - it is preserved, and if not - it is not preserved. Bruria opposes learning that is focused solely on the human mind. She claims that if we want the Torah to not only "pass through us" but to become a part of us, a significant component of our personality and identity, it must be learned through all the limbs of the body. Starting with the mouth: raising his voice in study, and ending with the feet - which she mentioned, ironically and painfully, by kicking. Bruria's rebuke, alongside the ravages of the coronavirus, prompted us to reexamine what exists and what is lacking in the region in broad contexts of the body and mind. Continuing this process, the motto we have chosen to accompany us in the upcoming school year is "Get out of the screen and bring all of yourself inside." In this call, we express the desire to shake off the isolation and social distancing imposed by ongoing distance learning.
Get off the screen and bring your whole self inside
To speak what is in the heart
The theme - for the year 2020
In this year, when the challenge of distance and isolation is upon us, we have decided to focus on developing interpersonal connections and the ability to communicate with ourselves, teachers and students alike. We will try to utilize the "golden time" of the school hours we will have with a minimum of technology and screens, and to incorporate into learning, as much as we can, playful and dynamic content and opportunities for teamwork and group discussion, which will help us build and deepen the connections between us. From this, the annual motto was chosen: "Speak what is in the heart."
In this call, we seek to encourage all of us to be able to transcribe and express feelings and pain, and to be partners in building a protected environment free from cynicism and judgment, which will allow for mistakes and growth, expressing and receiving criticism, and promoting discourse that touches on personal, emotional, and religious issues.
The topic - for the year 2019
This year, 2018, we have therefore chosen to add the level that is now required, which is precisely belonging to the whole, the consolidation of the details into a group, and marking the places where it is good and right to blur the differences between us in favor of finding a common denominator and a sense of belonging to a whole greater than the sum of its parts. The annual motto will be: "Being part of something big." I hope that this year we will succeed in establishing additional important values such as: concession, mutual guarantee, and belonging with the understanding that the plurality of voices
This can and should grow not only solo musicians, but also a choir and orchestra that knows how to play Aravot melodies. These things will be reflected in the education lessons, in the social-value activities of the entire school, in the discourse and collective preparation, and will even be taught in the framework of the community seminary led by Ms. Miriam Loinowitz and the halachah scholar Malka Piotrkowski, whose theme is: Between the individual and society.
To be part
Big desert
I found my place.
The topic - for the year 2018
2019 was the year the school was established as an independent institution. This year, we chose as our school-wide annual motto the slogan: "I found my place" and we engaged quite a bit - both as an organization and in dialogue with the students, in questions of self-definition and finding our uniqueness as a school, and of each one - in her own qualities, talents and desires. This was a conscious choice to speak in the language of multiple voices and a variety of possibilities, out of a humanistic approach in the spirit of the words of the Sages (Berachot Noach 2): "As their faces are different, so their opinions are different." Great emphasis is placed on seeing and accompanying each student, paying attention and finding a unique response to her and her needs, and providing availability and flexibility as school characteristics. It seems to me that all of these have had their effect and an atmosphere of discourse and dialogue has indeed been created at the school, and ample space has been given to the personal and unique. However, this approach cannot stand on its own, and in the absence of the right balance, it may lead to individualism and loneliness, and develop people who are incapable of responding to external dictates and who lack flexibility and social attention.