Agens Israel is an international partnership which specializes at integrating unemployed citizens back into work. The company has won the bid to operate the governmental program “Welfare to Work” (Mehalev) – the nation's first Welfare-to-Work Pilot Program - in the following areas: Hadera, Or Akiva, Pardes Hana-Karkur, Ein Iron, Kefar Kara .Arara and Baqa el Garbia-Jat. In 2007 this program was upgraded by the government as the “light to Employment”(Orot-Letaasuka) and extended into other regions including the city of Netanya and the townships of Basma. Agens Israel operates two up-to-date professional employment centres in Hadera and Netanya which are conducted according to the most advanced methods, producing the best results in placements among the nationwide operators. In the framework of the concept "Work-First", the goal of the Pilot Program and of Agens Israel is to facilitate and support the consistent progress of the program participant, on his way to achieve long term financial independence, with a stable entrance into the work market.