Welfare Ministry

Israel’s political parties must make out-of-home care a national priority - opinion

National security is not only about borders, military strength, and weapons systems. It is also about whether a child removed from home has a stable adult waiting at the end of the day.

 THE FOSTER families provide loving, stable homes for children to recover from difficult situations (Illustrative).
Ongoing issue: a homeless man sits on Tel Aviv’s Rothschild Blvd., July 28; on the same city’s Ben-Gurion Blvd., 1970s.

Inside Israel's homelessness crisis: A system struggling to keep up

Director General of the Ministry of Welfare, Yinon Aharoni, and Sheba CEO, Prof. Yitshak Kreiss, signing the agreement

Welfare Ministry and Sheba to establish $25 million innovation arm

n amputee sits with others gathering to mourn Iran's slain supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during the funeral ceremonies at the Grand Mosalla in Tehran on July 5, 2026.

Disabled Iranians deprived of state benefit payments, Tehran invests in war over welfare


At-risk teen housing seeks funding

Otot arranges subsidized housing for post-high school youth at-risk with no family.

Screenshot from fundraising video for Otot at-risk youth housing solutions

Too many Israeli children are living in poverty

Her frustration was expressed following the presentation to President Reuven Rivlin of the annual statistical report on children in Israel.

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish children sit in class at the Shomrei HaHoma Torah School for boys in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighbourhood November 9, 2010

National Insurance Institute ends transfer of surplus funds to government

MK Itzik Shmuli (Zionist Union) welcomed the cancellation of the long-standing agreement and strongly condemned the government’s waste of the NII’s surplus funds.

Communications Minister Ayoub Kara (Likud), MK Motti Yovev (Bayit Yehudi), Social Welfare Minister Haim Katz (Likud), MK Shuli Mualem-Rafaeli (Bayit Yehudi) and Coalition Chairman MK David Bitan on the stage at Sa-Nur.

Assisted-living center first of its kind in Jerusalem

The Beis Finger Rehabilitation Center celebrated its opening at a gathering on Sunday.

The Colel Chabad Beis Finger Rehabilitation Center

Assisted living – at home

The nonprofit Yad Sarah organization offers a partial solution, with physical aids and information that can help make your home accessible, along with advice regarding cooking, cleaning, etc.

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