People with disabilities

Maccabi, TOM team up for disabled IDF veterans

The agreement reflects a shared commitment to ensure that anyone who wishes to train, compete, or pursue a sporting dream is able to do so.

MACCABI WORLD UNION CEO Roy Hessing (left) and Tikkun Olam Makers founder Gidi Grinstein pose after signing their organizations' collaboration agreement.
Monik Konfino ,CEO Keren Shalem Foundation Public Fund of the Federation of Local Authorities in Israel

Shalem Foundation CEO: Investing in people with disabilities strengthens Israel’s entire society 

ACCORDING TO the JDC report, 95% of parents of special-needs children claimed they are in great need of financial assistance.

Disability inclusion cannot start with adults, it starts in school - opinion

Deaf actors using sign language communicate backstage prior to their performance "Luna Park" at the "Nalaga’at Theater" in the Tel Aviv-Jaffo port, March 18, 2012.

Knesset advances bill to recognize Israeli Sign Language as first language of deaf people


Founders of Special Children's Center win Dov Levy Prize

“We discovered that a special child can soar beyond challenges and beyond expectations with the help of a loving hand."

 CHAYA BENDER (left) and Jenine Shwekey, winners of the Dov Levy Prize.

Knesset passes law that defines right to independence for people with disabilities

The unprecedented law gives the disabled more control over their lives.

 A disabled person's road sign in Brunei

First orthodox siddur for people with disabilities launched in UK

The siddur is a tailor-made United Synagogue edition produced in partnership with JWeb working in collaboration with Gesher and Kisharon schools (for children with disabilities).

 New Siddur Lakol being used by Kisharon Noe pupil Salome and her Support Worker Necola.

Overcoming bureaucracy to help people with disabilities

Kesher Association calls to allow those with special needs to exercise their rights.

 THE WRITER lectures on the rights of families with special needs.

People with disabilities are facing severe loneliness due to COVID-19 - opinion

Social distancing requirements during COVID-19 meant that people with disabilities couldn't get the help they needed, and they are still suffering from it.

A lone man wearing a protective face mask sits at an unusually quiet State Library on the first day of a lockdown as the state of Victoria looks to curb the spread of a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Melbourne, Australia, July 16, 2021.

Israel's disabilities bill passes Knesset's first reading

The bill defines the basket of services for each tenant, such as close social worker supervision, guidance, transportation, employment, financial management workshops and more.

THE KNESSET building in Jerusalem holds one of the world’s smallest legislatures.

Ishay Ribo to promote disability care with benefit concert

The event will raise awareness for ADI, and funds will primarily go to the renovation of ADI Jerusalem's high dependency care unit. 

 In late October 2021, Ishay Ribo visited ADI Jerusalem and immediately expressed a desire to play  a special benefit concert to help empower the residents and special education students with severe disabilities.

The ‘queer, disabled’ Zionist who challenged the conventions of Israel’s founders

Jessie Sampter “spoke of herself as ‘crippled’ from...polio.” In addition, “she wrote of homoerotic longings and had same-sex relationships we would consider queer."

 One of Jessie Sampter's quotes, taken from one of her poems and popularized in a book of quotations by women, appears on a sign in Ladakh, India.

40% of Israeli media items equate intellectual disability with weakness - AKIM

AKIM is the largest organization in Israel providing representation for and advocating alongside 35,000 people with intellectual disabilities

 AKIM Israel presented their annual report to President Isaac Herzog on Wednesday with the participation of  Akim Chairman Rabbi Dr. Binyamin (Benny) Lau, AKIM CEO Sigal Peretz Yahalomi, Akim program particpants Rina Schechter and Elisha Friedman

Tainted meat caused Holon disabilities home mass poisoning - report

Tel Aviv District Health Bureau conducted an inspection of the kitchen, which revealed findings of serious defects in the level of maintenance and cleanliness.

 Handicap home Beit Dafna in Holon, where three residents died on May 1-2, 2022.