About Us

Reviv grew out of Lehem Zeh, a community initiative founded in Yeruham in 2021 around a simple belief: food and the kitchen have a unique power to bring people together.

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What began with baking, community and culture gradually led us to a larger question:

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What can happen when we intentionally use the kitchen as a tool for health and social change?

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From our work on the ground emerged a model connecting physical and mental health, education, community and opportunity.

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Reviv was established as an independent nonprofit to develop that model and take it beyond a single kitchen.

Today, Reviv operates two Teaching Kitchens in the Negev, delivers programs for children and youth, creates supportive employment opportunities, trains professionals, and is developing a major community-health initiative with Bedouin communities.

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Our Vision

We envision kitchens not only as places where food is prepared, but as powerful settings for health, learning, connection and empowerment - particularly for underserved communities in the geographic and social periphery of Israel.

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Our goal is to build evidence-informed, accessible and culturally grounded models that can be integrated into schools, communities and health systems, extending the power of the kitchen across the Negev and beyond.