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


Woman arrested for drugging her children to defraud National Insurance

The woman pretended that her children were disabled in order to fraudulently receive about NIS 50,000 from National Insurance.

 Israel Police officer in a police car

‘Color to the World’ with Pinot Igul

Pinot Igul is an organization that focuses on getting disabled artists’ works in front of the public’s eyes.

 THE ‘COLOR TO the World’ exhibit in Ganei Tikva.

The Dov Levy Prize: Cast your vote to win a free ticket to Israel!

Vote today for the winner of the Dov Levy Prize and enter a competition to win a FREE round-trip ticket to Israel!

 Dov Levy Prize

Ulpana Ofra high school's inclusion programs and education projects

Ulpana has developed a fantastic inclusion program for students with special needs.

A gardener with special needs prepares flowers for planting at the Rhoda Fischer Memorial Garden at ALEH Negev-Nahalat Eran on July 5, 2020.

The revolution in special education in Israel brought by Seeach Sod

Seeach Sod is a trailblazer in the religious community, a religious educational framework for children in Israel with special needs. It is celebrating its 50th anniversary.

 PLAYTIME AT the daycare center.

Special in Uniform: Opening the military's door to people with special needs

Equal in Uniform recruits, trains, escorts and supports hundreds of youth who volunteer to serve in the IDF.

Hillel Tragin of IDF Central Command

IDF aims to recruit 500 soldiers with autism by end of 2022

The IDF Manpower Directorate’s "Titkadmu" program is opening the military's doors to teens on the autistic spectrum with a unique approach pioneered by Cpt. Udi Heller.

 IDF soldiers compete in a multinational Capture the Flag cyber drill.

Special needs toddler forgotten in kindergarten transport for 8 hours

A 2-year-old was forgotten in a kindergarten transport that was installed with a system to prevent such an incident - the driver was notified and didn't look into it.

Shabus transportation

Feeling art with ‘Breaking the Walls’ exhibit by disabled artists

Eldad Shoshtari is doing his utmost to get the creative fruits of artists with special needs out there, to cultural consumers across the country and, if possible, the world.

 SHANI ELDAR’s  mixed-media sculpture ‘Muzreket’ (Injected).

Anti-vaxxer causes mass-infection in special needs kindergarten

An anti-vaxxer got infected with COVID-19 and sent her twins to their special needs kindergarten, sparking a mass-infection.

 Anti Covid-19 vaccine injection activists protest outside a vaccination center of  Magen David Adom, in Jerusalem,