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Dear Mrs. Weiss,
I was saddened and pained to receive the news that Dr. Branco Weiss is no longer with us.
Dr. Branco Weiss, of blessed memory, bound his fate to the land of Israel and worked devotedly to advance education in Israel in his own way, full of love for the Jewish people.
Please accept my participation in your deep mourning and my heartfelt condolences.
May his memory be a blessing.
Gideon Sa’ar
Minister of Education
Dear Niva,
We all received the news of Branco Weiss’s death with pain and tears. We know that Branco served as a visionary for many of you—a spiritual father, a warm and loving man always at your side. You stood behind him in your enterprise and he, in turn, gave you love and support. It was hard for us to think that we have no one to console for his death.
He was a dear man who saw the common good, particularly those Israeli pupils who have difficulties in school, and he left his mark on the field with vast empathy in an area that many philanthropists never touch. Moreover, Branco was a true partner in your work to realize his vision.
To be with and work in the presence of this great man was a blessing and a privilege.
Perhaps in another fifty years, our grandchildren who major in education will study the approach, outlook, and vision of Branco Weiss, the man.
We want to console you—and ourselves—for his passing. We feel and know that we are all charged with a mission and that all the students of Branco Weiss schools, the majority of whom were saved by his efforts—are his children.
“Woe for those who are gone but not forgotten.” (Sanhedrin 111)
Regards,
Beni Kashriel
Mayor of Ma'ale Adumim
&
David Sharet
Director of the Education Department
Dear Board and Senior Staff of
the Branco Weiss Institute,
We have only just learned of the passing of Mr. Branco Weiss, with the publication of the notice of his shloshim. I did not really know Mr. Branco Weiss, even though we had met and I knew that we were shared the same motivations and many of the same methods that can help create a more effective educational situation for the neediest children in our country.
I am very sorry that I was not able to be at his funeral, because I esteemed the man and his work and the way in which Mr. Branco Weiss gave not only of his money but also of himself to forge those processes that can create a better life for those to whom he devoted his own life.
If and when you publish something about his life, we would greatly appreciate the opportunity to become better acquainted with the man who created such an enterprise, as well as those who continue his path.
May your work realize the aspirations he pursued in his life.
Sincerely,
Prof. Reuven Feuerstein
Chairman, Feuerstein Institute
(formerly the International Center for the Enhancement of Learning Potential)
Rabbi Rafi Feuerstein
Deputy chair, Feuerstein Institute
Dear Niva,
We were very shocked and saddened by the news of Dr. Branco Weiss’s death. We have lost a comrade, a friend, a philanthropist, a man of erudition and, most of all, a dear man.
We have been associated with the Institute and its work for about 17 years. In the many hours we spent at Dr. Branco Weiss’s side, we gained wisdom from his words, consulted with him, shared friendly get-togethers, and, most of all, realized his dream.
From us and on behalf of the education system of Ma’ale Yosef, please convey our condolences to his wife and loved ones. We are sure that the legacy of Dr. Branco Weiss will stay with us in the future.
Regards,
Avi Karampa
Council Head
Ma’ale Yosef Regional Council
&
Itzik Barsheshet
Director of the Department of Education
Greetings Niva,
We were grieved to learn of the passing of Dr. Branco Weiss, a dear Jew and a Holocaust survivor. Although he settled in Zurich, Switzerland, Branco believed that the State of Israel should be strengthened and empowered through education.
His decisive contribution was the establishment of the Branco Weiss Institute, which specializes in developing educational programs and models and the chain of alternative schools for teenagers at risk.
Branco Weiss’s legacy deserves special esteem and admiration at the national level.
Together with the entire staff of the education system in the Beer Sheva Municipality, we bow our heads in his memory. We are sure that his educational enterprise will contribute and perpetuate his memory.
Kind regards and appreciation,
Rubik Danilowitz
Mayor of Beer Sheva
&
Dr. Hefzi Zohar
Deputy Mayor
I was deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Dr. Branco Weiss. He was a very special man. His contribution to education in Israel will be remembered. When I was mayor of Jerusalem, I came to appreciate his original contributions to the city, which built a foundation for nationwide programs. Please convey my condolences to his family.
Ehud Olmert
Former Prime Minister of Israel
To Niva, Director of Branco Weiss Institute,
I share the sorrow of the entire Institute family for the great loss of Dr. Branco Weiss of blessed memory. He was not only a great man, but a trailblazer and a leader. I am certain that no one can take his place. But I also have no doubt that you will uphold his legacy by continuing the holy work to which he dedicated his life.
With warmth and friendship,
Rabbi Michael Melchior
TELEGRAM
To the Staff of the Branco Weiss Institute
We share in your grief over the death of your dear Branco Weiss.
Condolences.
Dr. Nigist Mengesha and the staff of
the Ethiopian National Project
Dear Niva,
Allow me to express my sincere condolences for the passing of the foundation’s founder, Dr. Branco Weiss.
I am distressed from the bottom of my heart over the untimely passing of someone who was a family man, friend, philanthropist, and patriot. A man who gave of his own money but, more importantly, of his heart, in order to create a better future for Israeli children.
I am confident that his spirit will always inspire us and continue to guide us to do charity and good deeds.
May we meet with good news only.
Yours in sorrow,
Natie
Director, UJIA
To Ms. Niva Hasson
Director, Branco Weiss Institute
We share in the family’s sorrow, and in yours, at the death the chairman and founder of the Institute, Dr. Branco Weiss.
Dr. Branco Weiss will be remembered forever, along with his contribution and activity in the field of education.
Sincerely yours,
Dr. Yehiel Shiloh
Director
Rural, Residential, and Youth Aliyah Administration
Ministry of Education
To the Branco Weiss family,
Today we lost an educational figure of the first rank.
Branco Weiss was a dear man with a gigantic heart, a rare and sensitive person with a big heart.
He was a modest man who saw fit to give of his wealth and his spirit to rescue children and teenagers who had dropped out of the mainstream system. He maintained a fervent belief in his ability to save them and return them to the ranks of society.
Where the state education system had failed, he was the one who succeeded, thanks to his vision and his creative and audacious approach.
May his blessed work be bequeathed to the generations and may his name be remembered for the reduction of gaps, social solidarity, and restoration of human dignity.
May his memory be a blessing!
MK Ronit Tirosh
Former director general of the Ministry of Education, Culture, and Sport
The Knesset
To Ms. Niva Hasson
Director of the Branco Weiss Institute
We were saddened to hear of the passing of Dr. Branco Weiss, the founder and chairman of the Branco Weiss Institute.
Dr. Weiss’s profound social commitment, which is reflected in the Institute that he established and in its pupils, has served as a pathfinder for all those engaged in the field.
We at the Association of Community Centers, who work with many and diverse sectors and communities, greatly esteem and appreciate his investment in the development of leadership and his work to reduce educational gaps in Israeli society.
Dr. Branco Weiss was a model and example for all of us.
The Branco Weiss Institute and its pupils—past, present, and future—constitute an active and ongoing memorial of Dr. Weiss’s social and educational legacy.
The values in which he believed, and in whose light he founded the Branco Weiss Institute, continue to show the way for all of us.
The entire Community Center family sends its condolences to the Branco Weiss family and the Institute for your personal loss and mourns and grieves the loss of a leader and mentor.
Eitan Mizrahi
Director General
Israel Association of Community Centers
Dear Niva, Aviv, and the entire of the staff of the Branco Weiss Institute,
We were saddened to hear of the death of Dr. Branco Weiss, an entrepreneur and educator, who combined vision and action in a way that inspired many people, including myself.
Thanks to our school’s educational partnership with the Institute, we had the good fortune to meet and become acquainted with Branco the man—the man behind the Institute’s name—when he visited our school. When you were with him you quickly picked up his profound interest in human beings, both pupils and teachers.
Branco knew how to link hearts, as I discovered the first time I met him, when I was a class teacher, and saw the tears in his eyes as he talked with a pupil in my class as he recounted the story of his far from easy life.
Branco also knew how to link minds, as we all perceived when he was able, after a visit overloaded with issues and details, to put his finger on those things that we should concentrate on and to offer us, in a few words, practical ideas that combined educational vision with pedagogical and administrative praxis.
Thanks to these links, and thanks to his inspiration, his educational endeavors will continue and expand, and his memory will remain with us, those of us who knew him as a human being, for a long time to come.
I hope that the Institute staff and Dr. Branco Weiss’s family will find some consolation in these remarks.
On behalf of the teachers and pupils of the Western Galilee High School, in association with the Branco Weiss Institute,
Maya Bliabin, principal
The Western Galilee High School, in association with the Branco Weiss Institute
Dear Niva and the members of the Branco Weiss Institute,
I share your sorrow over the death of Dr. Branco Weiss. I am confident that his legacy will live on through your work.
Miri Vend
Director of the Schools Division
Department of Secondary Education
The Ministry of Education
Dear Niva,
We are with you in your time of mourning. With all my heart,
Ariella Segev
Director of the Tel Aviv and Central District
The Ministry of Education
Dear Niva,
I was truly saddened to hear that Branco had passed away.
My contact with Branco goes way back to the beginning of those 20 years and, of course, more recently last year as I worked with his support to give you all feedback on my perception of the way the BWI was fulfilling his vision of its mission.
Branco has always been, to me, a rare model of a person dedicated with purity to serving humanity by making possible in practice a vision of education that puts honesty, commitment, and above all good open and fair minded thinking as its primary goals. For this he gave unselfishly not only financial support but the kind of moral support that comes from the impassioned soul of a true leader.
Branco was a man of many moods, but I saw in him, whatever his demeanor, this deep driving passion to do his best for those future generations that the hope of this planet depends on.
While my actual contact with Branco over the years has been sparse, he stands out in my mind as a man of great stature who will leave a real positive mark that we should all emulate.
I am attaching some photos I took mostly of Branco when I was in Jerusalem last January. They show us the caring, reflective and committed Branco beneath the surface of his outward self.
Bob Swartz
Director, the National Center for Teaching Thinking
USA
Dear Racheli,
I was very surprised to hear from you just now that Dr. Branco Weiss (of blessed memory) has passed away. Somehow I had not read about it. The news flooded me with many emotions and reflections and I want to share a few of them with you in writing.
Although I left my job at the Institute about a decade ago, the idea of “Branco Weiss” has stayed with me all these years in so many ways:
In improving my own style of thinking – For me, “Branco Weiss” represents a much more structured and organized style of thinking. For example, I left the Institute in order to become director of the Education, Culture, and Welfare Department in Kefar Vradim. At every chance I got, I imparted the Branco-Weiss principles for the cultivation of thinking to my staff and I stressed broad application of these tools for thought in the decision-making process.
In my work – The Branco Weiss Institute’s educational methods have also guided me in the in-service courses I conducted for the Helen Doron company, in Israel and abroad. In these courses, I have had the pleasure of presenting Edward de Bono’s theory of multiple intelligences and thinking hats, and I have talked about their incorporation in Branco-Weissian education in Israel. Dr. Branco Weiss has “traveled” with me to England, Hungary, and Portugal.
In harvesting educational fruits – About a year ago, I unexpectedly received a phone call from B, a young man who had dropped out of school at sixteen. Back then, I was running the Institute’s Merom HaGalil project. I brought together five other young men like him and almost clandestinely set up an alternative academic framework in a shed in the backyard of the Merom HaGalil Regional Council. I was thrilled when Dr. Dan Sharon, then director of the Institute, and Dr. Branco Weiss picked up the gauntlet and used this program as the basis for establishing the chain of Branco Weiss high schools. In those days, B, a moshavnik, dreamt of working with animals as a career and as a way of life. His father had gone off to the United States to look for gold and he was roaming the streets. As mentioned, about a year ago, he called me, introduced himself, and asked if he could come visit me at my home. “Of course,” I said, and asked if there was any special reason for the visit. He replied, “I’m about to get married. I told my girlfriend a lot about the Branco Weiss High School and about you, and she wants to meet you before the wedding.” A few months ago, I met him in Carmiel and he told me that he has become an animal-assisted therapist!
Can you imagine what would have happened to B and to dozens or even hundreds of young people like him who had the privilege of attending a Branco Weiss High School, were it not for Dr. Branco Weiss? Where would B have been, as opposed to where he is now?
I wish for all of us that when our time comes to leave this world, we will stand before the Heavenly Throne with as long a list of amazing educational achievements for so many wonderful young people!
Tzaffi Simons
The Gandel Institute for Jewish Education
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
With great sorrow I've learnt about the passing away of my friend Branco Weiss. I got to know and respect him as I served as Israel's ambassador in Switzerland.
During our first encounter in 2003 it became clear to me that Branco is an extraordinary human being. A proud Jew, an extremely talented man and a true friend. Every meeting with him was pleasant, challenging and enriching. Branco knew always what was needed and therefore knew exactly what he wanted and what he demanded from himself and from others.
It was Branco who taught me that only those who defend themselves are being respected, a principle that was true in the Holocaust is true in the Middle East today, and is true in our private life.
Despite our age difference we became good friends as it was always a pleasure to listen to him and to realize how accurately he is analyzing the political or economic situation or one's personal problem.
Branco was also a great friend and supporter of Israel and the foundation he established is only one small proof of that.
He knew that education is one of the biggest challenges of our time and acted upon it in his own and special way, supporting and improving educational systems and institutions in Israel in Switzerland and elsewhere.
Branco showed us all what can and should be done about the things one believes in and this is why he will always be cherished. We are all deeply saddened by his untimely death but we'll remember him as a man of principles, an educator, a promoter of everything that the Jewish tradition and the State of Israel stand for, a special person, a friend.
Aviv Shir-On
Israel's ambassador to Austria and the OSCE
and former ambassador to Switzerland
Dear Niva,
I am very sorry to hear this sad news. Please convey my sincere condolences to all your colleagues at the Branco Weiss Institute and in the Branco Weiss Schools. I have very fond memories of my visit to you in January.
Kind regards,
Professor Carol McGuinness
Director of Education – School of Psychology
Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland
Dear Niva,
I am much saddened to receive this news about Dr. Branco Weiss. What a great man with a great love for the marginalized kids. I have not met him but I greatly respect his devotion, generosity and vision. Please accept my heartfelt sympathy.
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to be part of his vision and dream for the children of Israel.
Shalom,
Ai Choo
The Institute for Education, Hong Kong, China
Dear Niva,
“Blessed be the True Judge.”
I was saddened to hear of the passing of Dr. Branco Weiss.
His contribution to the education system in Beer Sheva and the entire country, particularly to teenagers at risk, deserve our esteem and appreciation.
Dr. Branco Weiss was a Zionist Jew with a big heart and a huge soul, who loved the children of Israel wherever they are and expressed his concern for their future in his work and thought. On behalf of the leaders of the Beer Sheva municipality, its principals and students, I/we share in the sorrow of the Branco Weiss Institute and its chain of high schools for dropouts.
Dr. Ruth Frankel
Director of the Education Department
Beer Sheva Municipality
Niva –
I cannot tell you how sorry I am to learn of this. It must be devastating for all of you.
May you know no more sorrow.
Best,
Linda Epstein
The Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago
Dear Niva,
I share your sorrow over the passing of Dr. Branco Weiss: a dear, important man. May his soul be bound up in the bond of everlasting life.
Dr. Haim Navon
Director of the Department of Education Centers and Miftanim
The Ministry of Education
Niva,
I was saddened to hear of the passing of a great friend. This is a real loss for you and of course for us as well. I hope that his life’s work will continue!
Ayala Kefir
Director of the Education Department
Upper Galilee Regional Council
Dear Niva,
I am with you in sorrow and mourning. Branco Weiss was indeed a special man in his generation. I had the opportunity to meet him during his visits to Ramle. Thanks to him, the education system of Ramle got a very significant boost. Branco Weiss certainly had a considerable and unique/special impact on the national education system, and remarkable educational poems have been written in his name.
May his memory be a blessing.
Gilad Goldman
Director, Department of Education and Youth in Kadima Tzoren
Dearest Niva and all the staff at Branco Weiss,
I join you in sorrow and mourning and am holding your hand.
I know and appreciate what Dr. Branco meant to you personally and to the entire staff of the Institute.
I am certain that you will continue to lead this important institution in the spirit of his legacy.
Yours,
Haim Lahav
Director, Department for the Advancement of Youth
Society and Youth Administration
The Ministry of Education
Dear Niva,
Branco Weiss was indeed a leader and a partner. Thanks to him, many children in Israel and in Ramle were able to grow up in a supportive, encouraging educational environment that believed in its students and their abilities.
The Ramle Municipality joins the family in their mourning and share in the sorrow of the Branco Weiss Institute.
Very sincerely,
Ofer Todar
Director General of the Ramle Municipality
Dear Niva,
I share your sorrow over the passing of the founder of the Institute, a constitutive figure for many.
Dr. Ronnie Karsenty
Davidson Institute
Weizmann Institute of Science
To Niva and the entire Institute staff,
I have just now received the sad news of the death of Dr. Branco Weiss.
Branco was a visionary and a tireless educational entrepreneur who left an imprint on Israeli education and, no less so, on the lives of many Israeli educators and students.
I will always be grateful for the privilege to take part in the Institute’s educational initiatives over the years. They were so formative and meaningful for me.
The sense of sorrow and loss that I feel (as do, I believe, many others like me), even years away from the Institute, shows that the “Branco Weiss family” was not just a cliché, but a reality.
Be strong and courageous in the educational endeavors Dr. Branco Weiss undertook in his lifetime, and you will touch the lives of many more people in the future.
Eitan Steinfeld
Former Tutor at the Institute
Dear Niva,
Dr. Branco Weiss was beloved in Beit Shemesh. He knew how to give and to leave his recipients feeling that they had given to him.
He had a rare combination of qualities. Modest and professional, a visionary and a humanitarian, Dr. Branco Weiss was a man worthy of emulation.
Please give Mrs. Branco Weiss our sincere condolences.
Yossi Cohen
Department of Secondary Education
Beit Shemesh Municipality
Dear Niva and the Branco Weiss family,
I was greatly saddened to hear, just a few minutes ago, of the passing of dear Branco Weiss. I share the sorrow we all feel over the death of this great man who gave so much to education in general and in Israel, and to all of us personally. Just this week, I spoke in Mexico about the Institute, about its solutions and all the things I learned over the years from my collaboration with you. This fabulous educational enterprise, with the establishment of this wonderful institute as its crown jewel, and, of course, the Etgar Schools taught us all what a real and genuine education is. It taught us how to make the school system meaningful: a source of growth, learning, and security for its students; and most of all, a place where they learn that they can be part of society, give of themselves, and contribute to the community in which they live.
Branco is gone, but his educational enterprise and outlook will stay with me and continue to guide my work in education. I promise to follow in his path and sow this dear man’s seeds. He is with me everywhere, especially here in faraway Mexico.
May his memory be a blessing!
Kalya Hilo
Mexico City
Dear Niva,
The short time I knew Branco and my long acquaintance with his work inspire my deep regret about his death.
His family will merit eternal glory because of his dedication to fostering education in our complex country.
I would be grateful if you could give them my condolences.
Keep on building his educational legacy in the way that only you know how.
Kobi Gavish
Director of the Department of Education
Golan Regional Council
We share your sorrow about the passing of a great figure in education and a friend to Israel.
Yoki Lotan
Director, ICA in Israel
Dear Niva,
Please accept my condolences.
I value all that Branco did for Israeli society.
Dov Lautman
Niva, Aviv, Shirley, Vered, Dafi, Yoav, Yoav, Yoav, Ronen, Moran, and all:
I was greatly saddened to hear of Branco Weiss’s passing. I share the sorrow you must feel as the leaders of the quality and splendid organization he built and founded with his own two hands.
He was a man who inspired and created opportunities.
A man who demanded action, idealism, pragmatism, and professionalism.
From my workplace in the confines of an Israeli school, where thousands of students run around every day, I feel a great loss. Today we lost a dear person whose desire and generosity made him a great partner in the most important task before us: education, education, education.
May his memory be a blessing.
Moshe Ofer
Former Branco Weiss Institute Tutor
Dear Niva,
I was very saddened to get the news of Dr. Branco Weiss’s passing. In my book, he was a visionary and a man to be emulated, a man to whom it was important to influence education. The development of the Institute and its important undertakings, primarily among teenagers who dropped out of the system, are undoubtedly due to the influence of this great man.
The last time I met him, he was alert, sharp, and full of energy. So I was very surprised to hear the news. I guess it’s hard for us to accept the finitude of life.
Joining in your sorrow,
Margalit Karmi
Jerusalem District Inspector
Ministry of Education
My dear Niva,
The entire education system in Ramle shares in the sorrow of Dr. Branco Weiss’s family!
Our city’s school system honors this dear man for all he did on behalf of our children specifically and for all children in Israel!
May we learn to follow in his footsteps!
Amalia Harush
Director of the Education Department
Ramle Municipality
Dr. Branco Weiss!
A dear and multifaceted man
A man with a vision and a path.
I had the honor of two conversations with him during the first days of the 2001 matriculation exam period.
He was a persistent man, a professional who always went down to the smallest detail. I remember him looking directly at me and asking, “How are you preparing for the 2001 matriculation exams?
Niva and I were in his office on Narkis and I answered spontaneously: “We are making our students smile and have an experience of success.”
I remember how Branco was so excited by this answer and encouraged us to go forward on this path in education…
I understood that behind the tough European façade was a sensitive and emotional man, who was also proud of the institute he had built…
May his memory be a blessing!
Lior Aviman
The Branco Weiss Institute
The news saddens us. A visionary.
Best regards,
Dr. Orna Simhon
Director of the Northern District
The Ministry of Education
Dear Niva,
I was stunned by the news. Branco stays with me as a visionary, a powerful and dynamic man.
His legacy will undoubtedly continue to influence the educational enterprise in Israel, thanks to the Institute.
Thanks for letting me know. Sending you a big hug,
Carmela Kitt
Former Senior Tutor at the Institute
Dear Niva,
It is a very sad day. I had the honor to know this man and his work and even to take part in it. Indeed, without people like Dr. Weiss, we would never have dreamt of working with these important populations, let alone had the chance to realize some of those dreams. Thanks to him, some of those we work with are realizing their dreams as well.
I hope you keep the light of Dr. Branco Weiss’s vision alive to the best of your ability.
Nili Eldar
Director of the Department of Education
Qiryat Yam
Dear Niva,
I want to express my sorrow and convey my condolences over the passing of Branco Weiss (of blessed memory).
A successful industrialist, a warm man who loved Israel, who made the advancement of education in Israel his foremost priority and devoted most of his time and money to making it happen.
Thanks to his wisdom, initiative, personal involvement, and the many resources he provided, the Branco Weiss Institute became a central and leading factor in the advancement of education in Israel. I was happy to read in your letter that even after Dr. Branco Weiss’s passing, the important enterprise that carries his name will continue to operate and strengthen Israeli society.
During his many trips to Israel, I had the privilege of meeting him and getting to know this unique and impressive personality from up close.
Dr. Branco Weiss will be missed, and I personally will very much feel the loss.
My condolences,
Itzik Turgeman
Vice President for the Advancement of Excellence, Rashi Foundation
To Niva and the entire staff of Branco Weiss,
I was sorry to hear of the passing of Dr. Branco Weiss. He was indeed a dear man who worked for Israeli society and especially for students in need. May his memory be a blessing.
Regards,
Dr. Rami Sulimani
Director General, Ashalim
Dear Niva,
I am sorry to hear of his untimely passing. I would like to take this opportunity to convey my sincere condolences to his family, and to the entire Branco Weiss Institute family, who are doing the sacred work he bequeathed to them.
I had the honor of meeting Dr. Weiss twice, and he was indeed an outstanding man.
Most sincerely,
Yaron Kenigsman
Former Chair of the Parents’ Committee
The Herzog Branco Weiss School
Beit Hashmonai
I am pained by the loss of a sensible, witty, and wise leader who supported many noble causes.
He could read and understand financial reports in a matter of minutes.
I share in the sorrow of the family and the Institute.
Eitan Kaspi
CPA
To Niva and the staff of the Branco Weiss Institute,
I am with you in your mourning. I am sure that you will continue to uphold his legacy and spread the message even further.
May you know sorrow no more,
Galit Kaspi Cohen
Holder of the Education Portfolio
Mazkeret Batya Regional Council
Dear Niva and the leaders and staff of the Institute,
A great loss to the Israeli people and its country!
I have no doubt that his spirit and legacy will continue to illuminate and impart values to Israeli education and your partners.
May his memory be a blessing!
Ayal Nitzani
Director, Kedem Atidim
Dear Niva,
We were saddened to hear about the death of dear Branco Weiss. He blazed a truly special path that saw the student as a person and emphasized the values of honesty, fairness, consideration, and concern for those members of society who need it most.
May his legacy continue and his vast enterprise serve as a worthy commemoration of his personality.
My deepest condolences to all who cherish his memory.
Sammy Bar Lev
Head of the Katzrin Regional Council
To the staff of Branco Weiss,
We share the feeling of sorrow and loss. But there is no doubt that this was a man whose memory will stay with us and that you are those who will preserve and build upon it. May his memory be a blessing.
Talal Dolav
Director, National Project for Children and Teenagers at Risk
Dear all,
The passing of this dear man is a difficult and bitter piece of news.
For me, Branco was the symbol of a true leader: creative, courageous, direct, principled, modest, and honest. Professionalism was the name of the game for him.
He has quite simply been my role model these last few years.
Yours,
Meir Shimoni
Head of the Jerusalem District
The Ministry of Education
Niva,
It saddens me to hear of the death of a social leader of Dr. Branco Weiss’s stature. I am certain that his spiritual testament will continue to light your way.
Yaron Zelah
Dear Niva,
I was very sad to read your mail. It was a pleasure and an honor for me to have written this story. I just talked to Branco on the phone and though I never met him personally, he left me deeply impressed with this huge donation to Israel's youth.
I am grateful to have met you and all your wonderful team .... I am sure his heritage is in the very best hands and he can rest in peace.
Keep on doing what you do,
Naomi Bubis
I truly share your sorrow.
He was indeed a great man, a special man.
He will be missed.
Devorah Hasid
CEO, Atidim