Open Door
Advancing Healthy Sexuality
About
"Open Door" — Advancing Healthy Sexuality is Israel's leading organization in the field of promoting the right to healthy sexuality and quality, trustworthy sexual education. Open Door was founded in 1966 under the name "The Israeli Family Planning Association" and became a registered nonprofit in 1984, with the aim of advancing a society in which every family and individual enjoys good health and quality of life, regardless of their ethnic, religious, or cultural background. A society that upholds the values of gender equality and human rights — including, among others, the right to healthy sexuality —
in which every person is entitled to make informed and free decisions, with equal access to education and quality healthcare services.
Open Door is the exclusive representative in Israel of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), which has been operating for over 60 years in approximately 180 countries. Open Door leads policy at the local, national, and global levels to make sexual health services accessible to adolescents and young people, and to advance recognition of one of the most fundamental human rights: the right to sexual health —
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR)
Our Vision
Open Door will lead the public and social discourse on healthy sexuality in Israel, while developing up-to-date professional knowledge in the field.
Open Door will be the leading body in protecting and advocating for human rights to sexual health, and in making quality services in this field accessible to all — without discrimination based on gender, religion, age, ethnicity, citizenship, or disability. Open Door will serve as a physical and virtual home — open, accessible, positive, and attentive — in the area of healthy sexuality, with a particular emphasis on the unique needs of adolescents and young people
Counseling & Support on Sex and Sexuality
The counselors at Open Door's counseling centers provide counseling, support, and assistance to adolescents, young people, parents,
and professionals on all matters related to sex and sexuality.
You can consult with us on topics including sexual relations, relationships, sexual identity and orientation, concern about pregnancy and unplanned pregnancy, physiological and emotional changes, body image, contraception, and more.
Within the counseling centers, two additional services are available:
appointments with a gynecologist, and brief therapy provided by a clinical social worker.
Open Door's counselors are here for you during service hours:
Sunday through Thursday, 3:00 PM to 7:00 PM
(except for the emergency response line)
Important Notes
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All of our services are free of charge.
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With the exception of WhatsApp, all of our services are anonymous.
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In-person counseling with an advisor or a gynecologist is available
by prior appointment at one of our four counseling centers. -
In the spirit of transparency, we wish to inform you that by law we are obligated to report any inquiry involving suicidal ideation, or risk or harm to a minor by someone responsible for them,
in their home, or in a setting where they are present.
Talk to Us
To register for the Professional Training Program For educators in healthy sexuality:
03-510-1511
For the organization's management Donations, partnerships, employment, and more:
03-510-1511
To book workshops and lectures For schools and other settings:
03-510-1511
To volunteer with the organization Various areas of activity:
055-984-4504
For inquiries to the Counseling Centers Questions about sex and sexuality :
*6338
Want to stay updated?
Join the Open Door newsletter: updates on workshops, courses and events, professional content and current knowledge on sexuality, sexual health and gender equality —plus a peek into what we do.
We only send when we truly have something to say. No fluff.
Want to volunteer with the organization?
Open Door is an organization based largely on volunteer activity, primarily in the counseling centers. Counselors receive training through a volunteer course.
No course is currently scheduled to open in the near future, but to be contacted as soon as one does,
you're welcome to register here.
Help us keep the door open!
Your donation will help us continue the important work for which Open Door was founded and has operated over the years — free counseling for adolescents, young people, and their parents on topics related to sexuality; workshops and lectures on sexual education in schools and other settings;
and the training of professionals in healthy sexuality education.
Open Door is a non-profit organization, recognized under Section 46A for tax purposes
(donations are tax-deductible in Israel).
Donate by cheque:
Payable to: "Open Door" P.O. Box 57602 Tel Aviv, 6158601
Donate via bank transfer:
"Open Door" — Registered Nonprofit Discount Bank — Rothschild 100 Branch Bank Account Number: 1780443
Organizational Membership
Membership in the organization grants the right to vote and be elected to the organization's institutions, as well as a discount at the organization's study days.Membership fee: 150 NIS per year
For students, soldiers, and volunteers: 75 NIS per year
