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Rashi's mission includes closing the gaps between well-established, well-resourced towns, where access to high quality educational and welfare services is good, and supply generally meets demand – and those localities where services are lacking in quality and quantity.
According to the Central Bureau of Statistics and numerous reports from governmental and social agencies, the vast majority of wealth and achievement are to be found in Israel's "central strip" – the urban and rural settlements between Hadera in the north and Gedera in the south.
The highest concentration of poverty, unemployment, poor educational results and children and youth at risk is in the northern and southern ends of the country – the geographic periphery, as well as in several socio-economically weak pockets in the center, the social periphery.
These are the areas targeted by almost all of Rashi's activities.
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