People with disabilities

Israeli rehabilitation village prepares adults with disabilities for Election Day voting

The village, home to more than 200 adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, has set up a mock polling station, complete with a voting booth, envelopes, and ballot slips.

A resident of a rehabilitation village operated by Perach Israel practices voting ahead of the October 27, 2026 Knesset election.
ET LA’ASOT runs programs pairing high school students with disabilities with their peers, and Side by Side, Building Community, Together seeks to create a similar program for 20-somethings (illustrative image).

Side by Side: Helping people with disabilities connect socially

SHARABI: ‘THERE’S only one place that I want to actually be part of and create something and work together with. This is at Shalva.”

Choosing life, building hope: Former hostage turns to disability advocacy to honor wife, daughters

Naftali Bennett

B’Yachad promotes referendums to enable the disabled – opinion


Israeli projects for disabled children place first, second in Helen Hamlyn Center Fixperts awards

The awards program connects students to people with disabilities in order to foster the development of practical solutions to everyday problems.

Shai Sheinfeld and Roy After with 5-year-old Ziv Cohen designing a bike for him for the Helen Hamlyn Center for Design’s 2026 Fixperts Awards.

The treatment that caused autistic children to start talking

Researchers examined a treatment based on magnetic pulses in children with autism and discovered an improvement in communication and language.

The children who received the real treatment presented an improvement in their communication and language abilitie

New exhibition connects people and animals

The exhibition, initiated by Let the Animals Live in cooperation with Tevel from the Egged Group, will feature moving photographs of people with disabilities alongside dogs and cats.

From the exhibition "This Is All the Magic: 40 years of unconditional love"

Students with Down syndrome, autism graduate as teaching assistants

The first cohort completed a joint Herzog College-Shekel training program aimed at bringing people with disabilities into Israeli classrooms as paid teaching assistants.

Students with various physical and developmental disabilities graduate from Herzog Academic College as teaching assistants in June 2026.

Nature without barriers: Lotem transforms outdoor experiences for people with disabilities

With wartime keeping Israelis in shelters and indoors, spending time in nature is crucial and the Lotem organization is making sure the same opportunities are there for people with disabilities.

NATURE VISIT with Ilan organization families.

Israeli housing organization for people with disabilities 'Alei Siach' comes to Argentina

The purpose of the meeting was to lay the foundations for establishing a community housing system and a support envelope for people with disabilities, while importing a successful model from Israel.

A MEETING between the Alei Siach organization, leading rabbis of the Argentinian community, Neve Tikva, and Mitoch Halev, in Argentina, May, 2026.

Through a mother's eyes: The wartime struggle of Israelis with special needs - comment

The mental and physical wartime challenges for Israelis with special needs

SHEKEL participants with counselor during a siren, in a bomb shelter at the Jerusalem center.

Where disability meets determination

Etgarim empowers children and adults of all abilities through life-changing sports programs — giving them confidence, community, and a future without limits

Oran Almog and Etgarim CEO Nir HaCohen.

Israel's deadly neglect: Disability rights ignored in emergency plans - opinion

Israel's failure to provide accessible shelters for disabled citizens leaves them vulnerable during missile attacks, with deadly consequences for hundreds of thousands.

Illustrative, a woman in a wheelchair outside a bomb shelter in Tel Aviv.

Petition calls for emergency evacuation for disabled, elderly Israelis amid Iran missile threat

A petition urges Israel's High Court to implement an evacuation plan for disabled and elderly citizens unable to reach shelters during missile alerts.

 Israelis take cover in a public shelter as a siren is sounded warning of incoming missiles fired from Iran into Israel. March 06, 2026.