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Shelter for Victims of Domestic Violence near Tel-Aviv
New Housing Project in Israel – design by Amos Goldreich Architecture
14 May 2019
The Ada and Tamar House
Design: Amos Goldreich Architecture
Location: near Tel-Aviv, Israel
The Ada and Tamar House

Designed by London-based practice, Amos Goldreich Architecture, alongside local firm, Jacobs-Yaniv Architects, this shelter is one of only a handful in the world which has been designed and built in consultation with the staff who will occupy and run it. Led by pioneering human rights activist, Ruth Rasnic, for international charity ?No To Violence?, the facility will provide a much-needed refuge for distressed and abused women and children from all localities and backgrounds.
According to World Health Organisation data up to 45% of women in Israel, like most countries in the west, will be victims of domestic violence at some stage in their lives and recent statistics indicate that 45% of children in Israel are subjected to violence. This is a worldwide epidemic.

?My family wanted to create something worthwhile in memory of my late grandmother Ada, a feminist who was involved in many charities in Israel,? says Amos Goldreich, Director of Amos Goldreich Architecture. ?They approached Ruth Rasnic, a childhood friend of my late mother, who founded the charity ‘No To Violence’ in 1977, in order to raise pu...