Co-Founder
Mei-Gal Avinoam
An attorney, Executive Director and Co-Founder of the program, and a member of the national board of the IDF Disabled Veterans Organization
Our Story
How it all began
Mei-Gal Avinoam, who founded Now, Me!, was wounded during her military service and spent years rehabilitating on her own, outside the veterans' system. For a long time she did not know the full range of benefits she was entitled to, had never met another woman who had been through something similar, and had no community to give her a sense of belonging, understanding, or support. She managed on her own, without knowing there was another way.
The turning point came when she met Dana Pinhasov, who had been through a long, complicated rehabilitation at Beit Halochem. Unlike Mei-Gal, Dana knew the IDF Disabled Veterans Organization well, and she knew what a community could do. In their first conversation they saw the gap between the two paths they had taken, and something clicked: there were many more women living the same reality, and no one was reaching them.
Mei-Gal came to the organization with one clear goal: to give young women wounded in service the thing she never had. A place to belong. A community. Support, growth, and the chance to rediscover their own strength.
Together with Dana she spent months studying, planning, and writing a new program from scratch. The result, born out of personal pain, was the first national pilot of Now, Me! It was built on a simple belief: these women recover faster together than alone.
Since then, Now, Me! has become a nationwide community for women wounded in military and national security service. It supports hundreds of women across Israel, giving them room to grow stronger, build real friendships, lead their own initiatives, and write a new chapter that means something.
Now, Me! exists so that no woman wounded in service ever has to walk that road alone.
