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


How many students are sick with coronavirus compared to population share?

While the rate of students infected with the coronavirus compared to the total amount of patients has declined in recent weeks, it has begun again to increase.

A masked student raises her hand on her first day back in school, November 1, 2020.

Pre-army trainees help disabled classmate climb a mountain

The other pre-army program participants “see him and not the chair,” said Itay Mori's mother.

Hanaton pre-army program participants hike with Itay in a special wheelchair

Special-needs families fear new lockdown

People with special needs who live in group homes could not understand why they were cut off from their families for weeks on end.

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 disabled need more help during the High Holy Days - opinion

Please don’t assume that people with disabilities will want to just stay at home because of the difficulties this year.

Special needs children and volunteers from Kav Lachayim plant trees with KKL-JNF on Tu Bishvat. Yoav Devir, KKL-JNF

Special Education: Same mess, different year plus corona

Parents have expressed frustration with what they describe as the “mess” that the special education system is in – only mentioning the virus as an added difficulty, not the core of the problem.

Sivan Veronski with one of her children

Israel must do better when it comes to invisible disability

Generally speaking, most Israelis don’t know much about disabilities, especially “invisible” disabilities.

Special needs children and volunteers from Kav Lachayim plant trees with KKL-JNF on Tu Bishvat. Yoav Devir, KKL-JNF

Elwyn nonprofit marks death of Halak with special-needs campaign

On May 30, Hallak, a 32-year-old special-needs student from east Jerusalem, was shot by Border Police in the Old City on his way to Jerusalem’s Elwyn Al-Quds Employment Training Center.

ISRAEL ELWYN CEO David Marcu holds a 'Safety for All' poster

Memorial garden will provide equal employment for special needs people

The memorial garden at ALEH Negev-Nahalat Eran has been dedicated to Rhoda Fischer.

A member of the ALEH Negev gardening team tends to the Rhoda Fischer Memorial Garden at ALEH Negev-Nahalat Eran on July 5, 2020.

Teenager with special needs violently arrested for not wearing a mask

In a video depicting the arrest, the policemen are shown pinning down the teenager as he screams out in pain.

Male hands arrested with handcuffs in Criminal concept (illustrative)

B'nai B'rith, JNF, to honor Holocaust-era educator Samuel Bein

The joint effort to recognize Bein is part of a long history collaborative projects between the B'nai B'rith and JNF.

Simon Wiesenthal Path Inaugurated in Martyrs Forest