People with disabilities

Students with Down syndrome, autism graduate as teaching assistants

The first cohort completed a joint Herzog College-Shekel training program aimed at bringing people with disabilities into Israeli classrooms as paid teaching assistants.

Students with various physical and developmental disabilities graduate from Herzog Academic College as teaching assistants in June 2026.
NATURE VISIT with Ilan organization families.

Nature without barriers: Lotem transforms outdoor experiences for people with disabilities

A MEETING between the Alei Siach organization, leading rabbis of the Argentinian community, Neve Tikva, and Mitoch Halev, in Argentina, May, 2026.

Israeli housing organization for people with disabilities 'Alei Siach' comes to Argentina

SHEKEL participants with counselor during a siren, in a bomb shelter at the Jerusalem center.

Through a mother's eyes: The wartime struggle of Israelis with special needs - comment


Lawfare Project takes action over incident in which swastika was carved into back of Jewish student

The boy reportedly returned home with his service dog's equipment bag torn up and a swastika carved into his back.

 Jewish non-verbal boy attacked in Las Vegas

How families with special-needs children endure the war - opinion

Like a double dose of punishment: The experiences of families with special-needs children enduring the war.

 ‘WE DO everything possible so that our precious children continue to live, our babies survive, and their small hearts keep beating,’ says the writer.

Children at new special needs school suffer trauma from Hamas attacks

Members of the police community outreach department had come to spend the morning with the Oz Field School for children with special needs from evacuated communities in Jerusalem.

Oz Field School for children with special needs from evacuated communities in Jerusalem.

Shelley Akabas, Columbia U social work pioneer who transformed the world of work, dies at 92

Sheila (Shelley) Akabas, a professor of social work at Columbia University, pioneered research into how labor and management could expand employment opportunities for people with disabilities.

 Sheila (Shelley) Akabas, a retired professor of social work at Columbia University, pioneered research into how labor and management could expand employment opportunities for people with disabilities and other challenges.

Israel finds body of Ruth Peretz, disabled teen missing since October 7

Her father Eric, who was also declared missing since the mass Hamas infiltration, was found lifeless by police and medical personnel on October 16.

Ruth Peretz, murdered in the October 7 massacre

Yad Sarah’s Jerusalem hotel hosts disabled, elderly evacuees for free

Yad Sarah has sent the volunteer drivers of its Nechonit wheelchair-accessible van unit to evacuate 100 residents from combat zones in the South, including those with disabilities.

 Yad Sarah hotel

Amid war, IDF spokesman visits disabled brother at Adi Negev village

IDF spokesman Brigadier-General Daniel Hagari went to Adi Negev-Nahalat Eran in the Eshkol region to visit his very-disabled brother who was one of the first residents of the village. 

 IDF spokesman Brigadier-General Daniel Hagari went to Adi Negev-Nahalat Eran in the Eshkol region to visit his very-disabled brother, Yoni, who was one of the first residents of the village.

Israeli special needs community struggles to cope with war

Faced with the trauma of war, children and adults with cognitive, developmental and physical disabilities are particularly vulnerable to paralyzing fear, trauma and anxiety.

 Ruth Peretz and her father Arik at the Nova Music Festival prior to Hamas's attack on October 7 2023

'The Missing Book': A more inclusive world for kids with disabilities - review

The Mysterious Missing Book by Rebecca Seligson is the first book in the series The Adventures of Incredi-Wheels and Triple S.

 A PHYSICALLY challenged child plays the drums at the St. Lilian Special School for children, in Kenya last year.

Why is one of Judaism's holiest sites not accessible yet?

Despite decades of advocacy and significant donations, the bureaucratic hurdles have prevented the realization of a simple solution to make this holy site accessible to all.

 A view of the Kotel.