Naale Elite Academy (Hebrew: נעל"ה) is an international program jointly funded by the Israeli Ministry of Education and the Jewish Agency.
[7] On the top of the Naale program it claims to include "a free university degree in science or engineering" [8] subject to certain conditions, namely, if Anieres students achieve sufficient Bagrut and psychometry scores for the chosen field in science or engineering, in addition to the army Atuda program which is also available for the rest of the Naale schools it has the second option of "full military service followed by studies at the Technion, subject to compliance with the admission requirements".
[14] The Naale students, while enrolled in the program, seem to have a lower level of psychological distress comparing to their peers who immigrated with their parents and are living in the community.
[18] Taking into account known risk factors - the propensity of teenagers to think emotionally rather than rationally[19] so the burden and the responsibility for the life changing decision mainly lies with their parents, being separated from their biological family and potentially becoming emotionally detached from their parents and their siblings, the surrogate environment limitations, the possibility of developing long-term psychological problems[20] and given the lack of psychological research on the long-term impact of the program on its students - the decision to send a child to the Naale program should not be taken lightly.
[24] Those Ukrainian refugees who applied for an entry permit to Israel under the Law of Return received it swiftly without further background checks if at least one of their children has taken part in the Naale program.