IDC Herzliya Student Guide

10
Legal Aid
Clinics
IDC Herzliya
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Legal Aid Clinics
The Community Legal Assistance Program*
This legal assistance program, which combines academic and practical activities, is designed
to create social, legal and community awareness among students while they obtain hands-on
legal experience and acquire practical and ethical skills. The course consists of weekly theoretical
sessions, which are led by the academic advisor, the lawyer advising the course and guest
lecturers (judges, lawyers and academics), as well as practical sessions and a preparatory
workshop. The program cooperates with the Israeli bar association’s pro bono program through
which IDC Herzliya alumni and students in the program, together provide legal assistance. The
program is designed for third and fourth-year students at the Radzyner School of Law.
For additional information contact attorney Iris Illotovitch-Segal at segali@idc.ac.il
"Kav Hatohar"*
The IDC Kav Hatohar, is a year-long elective course that involves hands-on legal work. The
idea behind the course is to involve law students in community service activities that allow them
to apply the material learned in their required courses. Kav Hatohar is designed to accept calls
from citizens who would like to protest and act against corruption and improper management in
government agencies. Students receive complaints from the public, examine the facts and legal
issues involved, and decide if there is a legal basis for responding to the complaint.
For additional information: www.mqg.org.il.
Assisting Child Victims of Crime*
The program involves assisting children who are crime victims during the legal proceedings
against those charged with violating their rights. This means that the assistance is to crime
victims and aims to provide them with information about legal procedures in general and about
the progress of their case in particular; to mediate between the children and the authorities
involved in prosecuting their cases; to help them fulfill their responsibilities to provide evidence
for the cases; and to ease their path through the world of criminal prosecution, which even at its
best can appear threatening (especially to children). The program combines practical activities
with academic studies. In the practical component, which is guided and supervised by attorney
Noa Bodsky-Levy of the National Council for the Child, students provide assistance to children
participating in the legal process as victims of a crime or as witnesses. The academic component
consists of sessions led by the academic director, Dr. Ruth Zafran, in cooperation with attorney
Vered Vindman, the legal advisor of the National Council for the Child.
For additional information contact attorney Iris Illotovitch-Segal at segali@idc.ac.il
Assisting Youth and Children At-Risk *
This program involves helping children and youth who are at risk or in distress. Activities in the
program center include three projects: Information and guidance centers, to which youth
suffering from issues such as violence, neglect, domestic abuse or a conflict with the authorities
turn for assistance and advice; "Migdalor" centers, which help high-risk youth from a variety of
backgrounds who have trouble integrating into formal frameworks; and a center for the
prevention and treatment of sexual violence among children and youth, which specializes in
treating children who have been sexually abused. In addition to providing practical assistance,
which is done as part of the activities of the ELEM nonprofit organization, students participating
in the program learn related academic material in a series of lectures. Among other issues,
students will learn about dilemmas relating to children’s rights, alternatives to the parent-child
relationship with regard to the status and responsibility of the state, the principle of the child’s
best interest in making decisions that will impact a child, abuse and corporal
punishment of children, responsibility to report suspicions, children’s rights in the school
system, and therapeutic and legal responses to sexual abuse.
For additional information contact attorney Iris Illotovitch-Segal at segali@idc.ac.il