CO M MU N IT Y: S TRO N G E R SO CI E T Y
Legal Clinics: "Their Work Lifted My Soul" The Clinic for the Rights of Holocaust Survivors and the Elderly at TAU’s Buchmann Faculty of Law helped a 77-year-old Tel Aviv woman win a significant legal battle over her public housing apartment. Under the guidance of clinical instructors Liad Strolov and Yael Havassy-Aharoni, the TAU team overturned an eviction and rent hike notice that Katlin Bidel (pictured) received. Furthermore, the pro-bono work of the Clinic – which receives support from the Netzach Israel Foundation – led to a complete renovation of the hazardous living conditions at Bidel's residence. “The work of the students, staff and attorneys from Tel Aviv University completely changed my life,” said Bidel, the daughter of Holocaust survivors and a diabetes patient, who herself escaped communist Hungary to Israel in 1971. “The Legal Clinic helped me in every way possible and their work lifted my soul. I’m grateful a thousand times over.”
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