Adina Bar-Shalom, the daughter of Shas 'spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef ,is working to boost the integration of the ultra-Orthodox public in Israel 'slabor market.
Bar-Shalom is expanding the Haredi College of Jerusalem ,which she founded more than a decade ago, in a bid to allow more haredim to acquire an education, get a job and contribute to the State's economy.
The plan is to have 4,000 men and women study in the college in the future.
Bar-Shalom has gained the support and funding of the Jerusalem Foundation, as well as a blessing from her father.
"We need scientists, doctors and psychologists, who will come from within the haredi society and openly improve its prestige," Bar-Shalom told Yedioth Ahronoth.