Childcare

The silent wave

Why we must prepare for the upcoming crisis in child protection

Sad, child and crying on floor in home with mental health, abuse or anxiety from trauma.
A daycare teacher plays with children at a WIZO daycare center.

Israel's Knesset pushes to create daycare oversight authority after Jerusalem tragedy

ISRAEL’S VALIANT rescue services quickly removed the other 52 babies.

Jerusalem daycare tragedy: Why make the story worse than it is? - opinion

US PRESIDENT Donald Trump and US Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent listen as National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett speaks, at the White House in Washington, DC, US, September 5, 2025.

Democratic states sue Trump administration over childcare fund freeze


Effective grandparenting

Not every ‘no’ deserves a lengthy discussion, but each ‘no’ needs to be consistently enforced.

‘IT IS important to let children explore but equally important to set limits.’

Preschool teacher's detention extended in latest child abuse scandal

"We didn't think we were dealing with a 'criminal' - you won't find a serial rapist managing a preschool. Rather seemingly normal people, within their moral world, have bad sides to their character."

A DAYCARE CENTER in Jerusalem. [Illustrative photo]

Childhood: A Jewish imperative of freedom and connection

No child should be a salvage project. Every child deserves a childhood.

A HAREDI child reads from the Bible during a reading class at the Kehilot Ya’acov Torah School for boys in Jerusalem in 2010

Tragedy in the South: Toddler drowns in pool in southern Israel

Another in a tragically long list of accidental child deaths.

A Magen David Adom ambulance; illustrative.

WATCH: Israel at 70 - The future of child welfare in Israel

One in every five children in Israel suffers from abuse or neglect. How can we put an end to this crisis?

Israel 70+: The future of child welfare in Israel

Child custody bill set for first reading with mixed messages

The two debating sides did not agree on whether each parent’s financial situation, and who primarily took care of the children in the previous two years, should be taken into account.

MK YIFAT SHASHA-BITON, chairwoman of the Knesset’s Special Committee for the Rights of the Child, signs an agreement for responsibility in advertising yesterday at the annual Marketing Conference for Children and Young Adults in Tel Aviv.

Children still at risk and subjected to poverty, neglect and sexual abuse

"Nothing is more precious than our children."

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man walks with his children on a street in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighbourhood September 24, 2015.

On Universal Childrens Day, let’s remember many kids lack breakfast

Many children do not enjoy the basic privilege of a healthy, nutritious breakfast.

Everyone deserves a healthy breakfast

Kids with spinal muscular atrophy to receive costly drug on compassionate grounds

80 Israeli youngsters suffer from the rare genetic disease.

A child looking at the monkeys at the Ramat Gan safari from her hospital bed

Did the rains of December 2016 produce a baby boom at Kaplan last month?

Doctors have said that more families were inspired to procreate as they were kept indoors due to the especially rainy winter last year.

Couple in bed [file photo]