Special needs

Diaspora youth mark Disability Awareness Month in inclusive race at Israeli rehabilitation village

The annual event brought together visiting students involved in fundraising efforts with residents of the village, rehabilitation patients, staff, and volunteers.

PARTICIPANTS IN Adi Negev-Nahalat Eran's Disability Awareness Month inclusive race, December 31, 2025.
FROM LEFT: Nadav Fattal, Asaf, David Fattal, Orel, and Assaf Fattal.

Grapevine, November 14, 2025: A Woman of valor

 Celebrations for the start of the new school year at Gabrieli Carmel School in Tel Aviv, September 1, 2022

Back to school: How to prepare children with special needs for the new year - opinion

 The author's son Danny, at home in happier times.

Reporter's Notebook: Perfect time to panic: Separated from my special-needs son during the war


Meet the Dov Levy Prize Winners!

Prize established by Seeach Sod awarded to Chaya Bender and Jenine Shwekey

 CHAYA BENDER (R) and Jenine Shwekey, founders and directors of The Special Children’s Center and Dov Levy Prize winners.

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.

Special-needs artists show the world what they need, and can do

The “Hotzim Gevulot” (Crossing Boundaries) exhibition is on display at the David Yellin College of Education in Jerusalem’s Beit Hakerem.

 ADI BEN PORAT expresses the transition from a defined balanced state to an ephemeral and uncontrollable manic state.

Shekel: Making dreams come true for Israelis with special needs

SHEKEL provides an astonishing, and growing, set of services for people with intellectual as well as physical disabilities throughout Israel.

 SHEKEL president Lihi Lapid shares a laugh at one of the centers for people with autism, in Jerusalem.

Integrative Orchestra to play music by Israeli special-needs composers

This year’s concert will feature two pieces by musicians with special needs, who were inspired to compose through their work with the orchestra.

 THE ISRAEL Integrative Orchestra.

Ron Beck from Haifa wins gold at Special Olympics European Championships

Ron Beck, 15, who was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome, finished first overall in the sprint.

Ron Beck wins the gold medal in the sprint at the European Championships of the Special Olympics triathlon.

Disabilities law: A major achievement for Israel - editorial

Yair Lapid: “The legislation will provide opportunities and rights for people with disabilities and will change their lives and the lives of their families.”

 Prime Minister Naftali Bennett at Sunday's cabinet meeting, May 22, 2022.

Lessons learned from COVID will lead us to new insights - opinion

Before COVID-19, men and women with special needs may have been less alert to the consequences of breaches in health protocols.

 POLICE OFFICERS participate in an Akim-Jerusalem Hanukkah party.

Making Israel’s history and heritage accessible for all

Heritage sites throughout Israel are now more accessible than ever before for people with disabilities, thanks to Jewish National Fund-USA.

Visitors marvel at a restored C46 airplane that was used to secretly bring Jews from Iraq to Israel in the 1940s

Siblings of children with disabilities may have greater empathy- Hebrew U study

The study is among the first to shed light on the positive implications of growing up with a sibling with special needs.

View of the Hebrew University's Givat Ram campus, November 07, 2011.