Our Team

Officers of the Amuta
Dr. Jeremiah Lubasch, Founding Director: Born in Argentina, Dr. Jeremiah Lubasch studied medicine at the University of Buenos Aires. In 1977 he came on Aliyah and today lives in Haifa with his wife and 6 children. Dr. Lubasch served in the navy and was promoted to rank of "rav seren". In 1989 he established the Haifa Center for Children with Learning Disabilities and remains the Founding Director on a voluntary basis, in between running his medical practice. Dr. Lubasch is involved in community service including serving on the Haifa Civic Society and working in conjunction with the Haifa Boston Connection.
Rabbi Shimon Una, Treasurer
Rabbi Daniel Hofner, Secretary
Rabbi Moshe Kanner
Rabbi Yerucham Spiegel
Mrs. Leah Reizman
Mrs. Rachel Gotesdiner
Nathan Cohen
Shmuel Edelstein

Staff
Pnina Berkowitz – Educational Director, BA Special Education; a partner in the vision of establishing the Haifa Center and has run the Center since its inception. Married with four children, she lives in Haifa.
Alex Weiss –- Administrative Director
Yael Keidar - Clinical Director - Expressive Arts Therapist and Psychotherapist, Doctoral Candidate – Psychology.
Riki Moadav – PR & Resource Development Director
Ruth Kaniel – Grantwriter
Hindi Cooperman – Health Services Liaison
Naomi Adler – Bookkeeping
Ita Shulman – Office Manager

Remedial Teachers:
Tamar Halvitz, Leah Avritcher, Na'ama Attia, Liron Hilsberg, Yehudit Amsalem

Expressive Therapists:
Gail Suskin – Movement Therapist specializing in Snoezelen Room and Trauma Treatment,
Micki Schwartz – Animal Assisted Therapist, Anat Geiger – Art Therapist, Mila Feinberg – Drama Therapist, Orly Aluffi – Movement Therapist, Orit Beni – Cognitive Behavioral Therapist, Psychotherapist, Mira Zeltzer - Movement and Snoezelen Room Therapist, Hilit Nachmias - Movement Therapist specializing in Dyadic Treatment, Rivka Nir-Shafrir- Bibliotherapist.

Psychiatrist:
Sonia Suskin

Didactic Assessments:
Idit Korkus

Speech Therapists:
Tanya Blusarsky, Luda Verozoshchev, Efrat Dagan

Occupational Therapists:
Nirit Itzchaki, Orit Gaspar, Revital Givon,Orit Tiferet

ECR Center Staff:
Mirit Levy – Head of Special Education Kindergarten, Revital Atzur – Head of Side-by-Side Nursery, Malki Ya'akobowitz – Head of Language Intensive Kindergarten, Shevi Blau – Language Teacher, Adina Gratch – Ma'on Shachar Coordinator (framework for severely handicapped children)