Labor and Social Affairs Ministry

Hundreds of families join foster care system as government expands support

3,560 children are currently within Israel's foster care system, while a total of 905 disabled people, both children and adults, are cared for by the system.

 THE FOSTER families provide loving, stable homes for children to recover from difficult situations (Illustrative).
Visitors attend the “Batrei Zuzei” art fair featuring student works ahead of the Jewish holiday of Shavuot at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, May 18, 2026.

Public complaints in Israel soar as state failures compound

Truck and car on highway in front of stacks of shipping containers

Israeli truckers fear foreign workers may overtake industry if bureaucracy goes unchecked

A daycare teacher plays with children at a WIZO daycare center.

Israel's Knesset pushes to create daycare oversight authority after Jerusalem tragedy


In first, Israeli children with limb disabilities will receive allowance

The new budget approval will help provide parents of children with disabilities with help with their daily expenses.

Picture of the Labor and Welfare Committee voting on the approval of the budget.

Israel's national roadmap plan for Welfare Ministry presented by Menomadin Foundation

The program, which was devised by senior scholars in the field, is the first of its kind to formulate a comprehensive plan of reform for Israel’s welfare services.

Haim Taib and Minister Meir Cohen.

Thai farmworkers among the most vulnerable in Israel to Hamas rocket fire

The casualties suffered in migrant worker communities are in no small part due to government inaction on protecting foreign laborers.

A Thai worker picks Etrogs, a citrus fruit used in rituals during the upcoming Jewish holiday of Sukkot, in a grove in the southern community of Nave, near the border with the Gaza Strip and Egypt, October 6, 2014

Labor Ministry: Decline in work-related deaths - report

"Almost 70% of [building] sites do not report to us, they are not at all on our radar."

People work at a construction site in the Jewish settlement of Beit El, near Ramallah in the West Bank July 1, 2020.

Ministry too busy with 'real problems' to investigate rape of the disabled

While parents of children with special needs were horrified by the report of the abuse and the response of the ministry, the truth is that few were surprised.

Police set up a checkpoint in Jerusalem as Israel enters its second coronavirus lockdown

Vulnerable employees unprotected as labor enforcement dept. overtaxed

Some 15,000 requests to put pregnant women on unpaid leave have been submitted since the beginning of the pandemic; the annual average is only 1,000. "I can only handle a small number of complaints."

Haredi woman working 311

Emergency sensors offered for thousands of elderly people who live alone

'We were all appalled by the sad cases of elderly people who passed away in their homes and nobody knew about it. We are doing everything we can to prevent such situations'

An elderly woman sits in the recreation room of a retirement home as visits have been restricted due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) concerns in Grevenbroich

Social Affairs Ministry to issue 30,000 vouchers for Passover food

The total amount spent by the ministry will come to NIS 9 million.

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish boy leans against sacks of onions at a food distribution center providing food products for families ahead of the upcoming Jewish holiday of Passover in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighbourhood, April 16, 2019

Israeli gay couple asked by ministry: 'Which of you is the mother?'

This is not the first time the couple has encountered such issues, but on prior occasions there was no insistence on the matter.

The rainbow flag, commonly known as the gay pride flag or LGBT pride flag, is seen during the first Gay Pride parade in Skopje, North Macedonia June 29, 2019

What should you do if you hear a rocket siren?

As rockets fly, welfare institutions, public health officials issue recommendations.

A MOTHER puts her children to bed in a public bomb shelter in Ashkelon during the 2014 Gazan war