Oz Va'Ruach

Introducing Oz Va'Ruach

The Oz Va’Ruach (Bravery and Spirit) program has been founded to provide injured service members with the most comprehensive professional and personal support framework on their path to meaningful integration into the Israeli employment sphere.

The program offers injured veterans of high personal and professional potential, specially tailored adjustment frame to accommodate training and integration as outstanding employees in the Israeli industry. Oz Va’Ruach bridges participants’ broad capabilities with the country’s leading industries’ requirements. The first cohort is focused on the high-tech sector, to be followed by further cycles, across a range of diverse industries.

Spanning up to one year, the program pre-identifies job placements in partnership with committed employers, who then integrate program graduates into pre-defined roles. Participants are selected through a rigorous screening process from among injured veterans with relevant educational backgrounds and the potential to succeed in the roles offered by employers.

Participants receive targeted, role-specific professional training, followed by a paid On the Job Training period with their employer. Each participant is paired with a personal mentor from among the employees of the company, who provides individual support, professional guidance, and connection to the organizational culture. Additionally, participants take part in a peers’ group — a regular shared space for mutual support and emotional accompaniment, that also provides tools for navigating day-to-day challenges.

An Echoing Impact

100%

Commitment to employment integration in quality jobs predefined in collaboration

15+

Employers lead in advanced dialogue for integration into the program

1:1

Support from a personal mentor from the staff at the employing companies

First cycle

For integration in high-tech, starting Q2 2026

Employers

Why Oz Va’Ruach?

The Recommended Path to Employment Integration

Returning to work after injury is a complex challenge that demands a unique working model. Oz Va’Ruach is a long-term course directly aimed at employment integration that addresses the distinct circumstances of its participants, harnessing resources that enable strengthening participants’ ability to build stable careers while delivering meaningful value to everyone involved:

For participants rebuilding their lives, the program offers a closely guided route to return to working life and a sense of meaningful purpose by integrating into central roles in the economy — strengthening self-confidence, motivation, and self-worth as an integral part of the healing and professional growth process.

For employers, the program provides access to high-quality, skilled, and dedicated human capital — individuals who bring exceptional personal resilience and a uniquely high level of commitment. Successful integration contributes to social cohesion, belonging, and pride across the entire organization, creating an involved work ecology, unified around a shared purpose. Furthermore, accompanying participants with best-in-class professional tools gives employers’ managers the opportunity to improve their inclusive leadership skills and develop high-level interpersonal communication skills across their teams — capabilities that are essential leadership tools in today’s workplace.

The principles of the winning model:

• Commitment-based recruitment — Oz Va’Ruach provides security to both sides: employers are brought on board in advance and commit to specific positions. This allows participants to focus on learning and development, knowing that a real employment opportunity awaits them at the finish line — without compromising the professional standards defined for each role.

• Workforce integration as part of the rehabilitation process — The program is grounded in the principle that professional engagement and job-placement are a central pillar of rehabilitation and healing. Through hands-on experience, participants practice workplace functioning skills and experience ongoing meaning. In doing so, self-confidence and the ability to realize one’s full personal and professional potential are gradually restored.

• The strength of community and partnership — The power of Oz Va’Ruach lies in human connection. The shared learning experience of injured veterans creates a supportive and motivating environment, where a common background becomes a springboard for both personal and professional growth.

The injury is part of each fighter’s story — but it does not define their future. In Oz Va’Ruach, that future is built together with Israel’s leading employers.

What Graduates, Employers & Community Members Are Saying

In Israel of 2026, integrating IDF and security forces wounded veterans into employment is a profound expression of national resilience and the Israeli spirit of perseverance. This is Zionism 2026.
The Oz Va'Ruach program transforms the vision of rehabilitation into a reality of growth — creating an outcome where employers gain high-quality, professional human capital characterized by dedication, resilience, and an uncompromising commitment to their organization's goals. This is a national commitment and a civic responsibility that provides wounded veterans with a framework of healing and empowerment, and demonstrates that their meaningful integration into the workforce is a key to every veteran's personal reclamation — and to the flourishing of Israeli society as a whole. In Israel of 2026, integrating IDF and security forces wounded veterans into employment is a profound expression of national resilience and the Israeli spirit of perseverance. This is Zionism 2026. The Oz Va'Ruach program transforms the vision of rehabilitation into a reality of growth — creating an outcome where employers gain high-quality, professional human capital characterized by dedication, resilience, and an uncompromising commitment to their organization's goals. This is a national commitment and a civic responsibility that provides wounded veterans with a framework of healing and empowerment, and demonstrates that their meaningful integration into the workforce is a key to every veteran's personal reclamation — and to the flourishing of Israeli society as a whole.

Yoav "Poli" Mordechai

Maj. Gen. (Ret.)