Project Leader Biographies: HaLevav

Longtime environmental activist Shmuel Ofanansky is HaLevav's Environmental Programs Director. Before immigrating to Israel from the United States, Shmuel worked on wildlife and wildlands preservation and community gardening in Montana and the Pacific Northwest. Upon arriving in Israel in 1996 Shmuel began immediately to work on environmental issues - organizing community gardening, composting, and nature activities with children, litter clean-ups, educational events and environmental fairs, and combating illegal garbage dumping. In his work with HaLevav, Shmuel heads Tzfat’s recycling program, leads environmental activities with children, youth, and in the community, is active in community gardening, and arranges and offers workshops on environment and sustainability issues and skills acquisition. Shmuel holds a BA in Russian from the University of Montana. He is fluent in Hebrew and English. He and his wife Allison, their daughter Aravah, and their pets live in the village of Kadita, between Tzfat and Meron.

Dr. Shmuel "Mooli" Randor, MD, ND, serves as Director of Health Programs at HaLevav. Dr. Randor is a veteran holistic physician (general medicine and naturopathic practitioner) and a health instructor with over 30 years of clinical, academic and public health experience; he has worked in health education and health promotion in Israel and Canada. At HaLevav, Mooli plans, markets, operates, and evaluates complementary health workshops for a wide variety of target audiences including teenagers, the elderly, social workers, nurses, and teachers. Dr. Randor is fluent in Hebrew, English and French; he received his medical degree from the Tel Aviv University Medical School and his naturopathy degree from Bastyre College of Naturopathic Medicine in Seattle, Washington (USA). Mooli, his wife Tamar, their son Yo'av, and their pets live in Rosh Pina, a town near Tzfat.