Out for Change cares for young Jews who have left their ultra-Orthodox religious communities and then have to completely reorient themselves in society. They are called yotzim. Their situation is mainly characterized by the fact that most of them, about 96%, have not had a school education that would enable them to enter a profession, let alone an academic profession. In their youth, they went to religious Talmud school, and many of them know neither English nor advanced mathematics. In addition, they suffer from having been cast out of their previous communities, often their families, and from no longer being supported. About 3,000 young people now leave the Haredim, as the religiously Orthodox society is called, every year.  Out for Change addresses them in local communities and through individual educational support, including mentoring programs. This also includes individual scholarships, which they grant or arrange.

Itzik (26 years old) grew up in a large ultra-Orthodox Jewish family, the twelfth of 14 children. His path was actually predetermined. Diligent Torah learning was to make him a prominent rabbi of his generation. At the age of 14, his doubts brought him to an "out for change" decision for the first time. He no longer wanted to be a "Haredi" and had his side hair (payot) cut off. But he returned to the Haredi community two more times. Only when he volunteered for military service at the age of 20 did his journey into a new world finally begin. After a difficult struggle to enter a completely new and foreign environment, he studied psychology at the Herzliya Interdisciplinary Center in Tel Aviv with our support and has since graduated with a Bachelor's degree. Now he is working, at least temporarily, as an employee for Out for Change to help other yotzim. He is overjoyed to have successfully freed himself from the shackles of his past with his own strength and, in the end, also with our support.

Rephael went a similar way. For him, too, the decision to tear up his deferment certificate from the otherwise obligatory Israeli military service, which was granted to him as a kind of privilege because he belonged to a Haredi, was the key experience for setting out into a new world. He is now a legal trainee and wants to complete his master's degree in law, technology and business innovation at the Herzliya Interdisciplinary Center in Tel Aviv and then become a lawyer.