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Beyond the Headlines: Moments at Ben-Gurion Airport, the Kotel - opinion

A weekly glimpse into the Israel you won’t read about in the news.

Passengers at the Ben Gurion International airport near Tel Aviv on September 18, 2025.
 MEMBERS OF THE ‘Kesher Ayin’ running group pose with Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion (right) at the Jerusalem Marathon earlier this month.

Blind, sighted athletes run side by side in Jerusalem Marathon

 Operation Ethiopia.

Israeli medical team restores sight to hundreds in Ethiopian humanitarian mission

Apple introduces eye-tracking technology for iPhone control


Watch McDonald's RightHear audio orientation app in action

RightHear is an advanced spatial orientation solution for people who are blind or visually impaired.

A visually impaired woman enters a McDonald's chain restaurant, which has been made accessible to the blind and visually impaired community.

McDonald's first visually impaired-accessible food chain in Israel

The blind and visually impaired community in Israel includes approximately 200,000 people today.

A visually impaired woman enters a McDonald's chain restaurant, which has been made accessible to the blind and visually impaired community.

Free to ski

“Being disabled causes people to lose their self-confidence,” he explained. “The Erez Foundation gives it back to you.”

On the slopes: Wheelchair-bound skiers are strapped into special chairs and taught to ski at staggering speeds

Tech Talk: Reaching higher ground with RightHear app

Thanks to RightHear free app, people who are blind or visually impaired can navigate independently in public spaces such as universities, hospitals, airports and shopping malls.

Stevie Wonder visits with Israeli start-up RightHear at a convention in California

‘Humans of Tel Aviv’ demystifies a misunderstood people

Nalaga’at, which means “please touch,” was initially the world’s only theater company exclusively for deaf-blind actors born primarily with Usher’s Syndrome.

Limor Markus, a deaf producer at Jaffa’s Nalaga’at Center.

Hadassah ophthalmologist to receive award for fight against blindness

The prestigious award honors the 100th-anniversary celebrations of the department.

Prof. Yaakov Pe’er

After protests, transportation stipend for the blind increases

Starting January 1, 2018, an increase of NIS 1.7 million will be added to the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs budget in order to increase the monthly allowance.

Some of the blind demonstrators protest at the Knesset yesterday over their current stipend of NIS 790 per month.

Peaceful protests at Knesset overshadowed by Haredim demonstrating against draft

Prior to arrival of some 7,000 haredi protestors at around 3 o’clock, individuals from all over the country peacefully protested outside of the Knesset to make their demands heard.

Some of the blind demonstrators protest at the Knesset yesterday over their current stipend of NIS 790 per month.

Out of sight

Drummer Dov Rosen blindfolds a collective of musicians in his improvisation project, the Blind Orchestra.

'It enables the musicians to dive into the world of music, the world of sound. It isolates them; whatever energy is typically put into observing one another goes into hearing and to other senses like feeling the instruments,’ says Blind Orchestra founder Dov Rosen (far right) seen here with some of

Le meilleur allié de l’homme

Dressés pour être les yeux de leurs maîtres, les chiens-guides permettent aux non-voyants de retrouver confiance en eux-mêmes et de s’intégrer dans la société

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