Disability
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.
Fair is not always equal: Adapting bar, bat mitzvahs to developmental challenges - review
Understanding your autism even when the journey begins later in life - opinion
Parents association rejects Teachers' Union threat to limit inclusion of students with disabilities
Maccabi, TOM team up for disabled IDF veterans
The agreement reflects a shared commitment to ensure that anyone who wishes to train, compete, or pursue a sporting dream is able to do so.
Shalem Foundation CEO: Investing in people with disabilities strengthens Israel’s entire society
At the Jerusalem Post Miami Conference, Shalem Foundation CEO Monik Konfino detailed a national model linking policy, local action and care.
Mission driven: founders explain how startups compete with big-tech salaries
Glass said the first applications focus on disability, with the goal of enabling an upper-limb amputee to control a robotic arm “as if it’s their natural arm.”
Disability inclusion cannot start with adults, it starts in school - opinion
Only a society that enables people to live and develop together, and that cultivates difference, reciprocity, and equal rights will raise people that do not need to learn to "behave correctly."
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.
The bureaucracy whisperer working to secure a more accessible Israel
Our determination to dig in our heels is what stands between us and an inclusive future for people with disabilities, says Monik Konfino, CEO of the Shalem Foundation.
"Space is for everyone": Jeff Bezos' company makes history again | watch
Michaela Benthaus, a European Space Agency engineer in a wheelchair, became the first person with this disability in space: "I loved the view, microgravity, and the flight upwards."
Bank Hapoalim receives 'Accessible Organization' certificate from Access Israel
In its announcement, Access Israel said the certificate reflects the bank’s commitment to ensuring that “every customer, without exception,” can receive “independent, respectful and equal” service.
'I wanted to serve fully': NGO support program enables young deaf adults to serve in the IDF
Kivunim's program is designed for young adults ages 16-26, and provides ongoing support from high school through enlistment, screening, and placement.
Reopened Aleh care facility makes menorah as symbol of hope from Iranian missile fragments
As workers cleared the rubble from the missile strike, fragments were discovered and set aside. They were handed to Jerusalem artist Guy Cohen, who welded and shaped the metal into a menorah.