ABOUT US

We are situated in a convenient location in Jerusalem. We share our space with two Amutot: El Halev - Women's Martial Arts Center, and Chazon Fetayah- a rehabilitation center for women who have suffered emotional trauma.

Merkaz Edna consists of three treatment rooms and a pleasant waiting area. Two of the rooms are ideal for therapy and other one-on-one or small group services, while the third room is a fully-equipped massage room. We also have direct access to the dry sauna and jacuzzi.

Merkaz Edna rents out rooms to accommodate ongoing groups and special evening activities such as lectures and workshops. There is also the possibility of renting larger rooms from El Halev or Chazon Fetaya for activities that are tailored for large groups.

Merkaz Edna provides the perfect atmosphere in which one can simply relax. We share certain facilities with El Halev and Chazon Fetayah, so that theoretically one can spend the day at Merkaz Edna - working out in the exercise room, talking with a therapist, relaxing in the jacuzzi, enjoying a massage, having a sandwich in the cafeteria, joining a martial arts course at El Halev, and spending time reading in the library. Sounds inviting, doesn't it? Call for an appointment today!

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ABOUT EDNA

Her daughter, Carol (Sulam) Zicklin, writes:

Edna (Horowitz) Sulam was born into a poor family. She was the second oldest of five children growing up in the home of a father who was a house painter and a mother who ran a fruit store from early morning to late at night. She was an excellent student who had to quit school at age sixteen to add to the familys earnings. She always wanted to learn ballet, but she didn't have the money or the time. As a teenager, one of her jobs was to work as a waitress in a fancy New York restaurant and I try to imagine her, a poor girl, waiting on tables of patrons who were elegantly dressed and who lived very different lives from hers.

Edna met her future husband, Gabriel, at age 16 and married him at age 21. Life became a little easier and a bit more fulfilling for her as a mother, grandmother, and great grandmother. In her later years she worked part time in a big office building in NYC, where she became more independent, using her skills and her brain. She was always proud of her accomplishments there and of the friends she made.

As her daughter, I learned to love the ballet and we would often go to the State Theatre in NYC. In addition to the arts, my mother enjoyed reading which also became another love of mine. I guess reading took her to different cultures and environments, places she never visited physically

Peace and contentment is a wonderful legacy for my mother to leave to women who avail themselves of the center which bears her name: Merkaz Edna. Thank you for all that you have done and continue to do to keep her memory alive.

Beloved Mother
Grandmother and
Great Grandmother

Merkaz Edna
Dedicated in memory of
Edna Sulam

Her granddaughter, Yudit (Zicklin) Sidikman, writes:

Nanny Edna, as I knew her, always wanted the best for me. I remember so many times when she would ask me about what I was learning, what I was doing, where I was visiting, all in order to have a clear picture of my direction. Though she always worried about me, I never felt that it was coming from a place of trying to shield me or stifle me. I think part of it was an absolute curiosity about the crazy things that I was doing. It must have been hard for her to adjust to having her only granddaughter be such a tomboy, but I never felt that she was anything less than proud of me. Sometimes I could see a little twinkle in her eye as I once again told her of my shenanigans. Part of it may have been, "And when are you going to be the woman you were born to be?" and part of it may have been "Wow, that sounds exciting! If only I were young again."

I know that Nanny is proud looking down from above at the woman I was born to be, and at the crazy shenanigans that have become my trademark. I am thrilled to be able to be part of her legacy: a strong, hard- working, family and community-oriented Horowitz-Sulam-Zicklin woman.