Welfare Ministry

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.
Elderly individuals report confusion, memory decline, difficulty with orientation and sometimes even delirium, a state of acute sudden confusion

Elder fraud cases jump 61% in Israel as abuse reports rise, Welfare Ministry says

Israeli State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman at the annual Jerusalem Conference of the 'Besheva' group in Jerusalem, February 16, 2026.

Israel's municipalities are failing on nearly every possible front, government probe reveals

At-risk youth in Israel are slipping into a deepening generational crisis after two years of war.

A generational crisis: Israel's most vulnerable children pay war's steepest price


‘Just be you': How Israel can support individuals with disabilities - opinion

Whereas many people view getting out of bed and coming to work as an obligation, for many employees with disabilities, going to work is welcomed and a source of excitement and recognition.

 Israel Elwyn Bus Campaign

Foster family or residential care system? US study informs Israeli org. on how to care for orphans

Children placed in foster family care are more likely to acquire better academic outcomes than those who were not, mainly because of receiving developmental and preventative care.

 THE FOSTER families provide loving, stable homes for children to recover from difficult situations (Illustrative).

The overlooked victims: Israel's vulnerable populations struggle as war diverts needed resources

Focus on the war has diverted attention away from vulnerable populations who depend on social services to survive.

An illustrative image of orphaned children.

State will halt funding for at-risk haredi yeshivot with students who don’t draft 

The petition notes that many of these students are not studying Torah in a consistent manner, and often work off-the-books - in violation of the conditions for military exemption.

HAREDI DEMONSTRATORS protest in Jerusalem on July 23, 2025.

Grapevine, May 9, 2025: Bridges of hope

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY President Prof. Arie Zaban with Dr. Miriam Adelson.

Supreme Court ends tax-based food stamp criteria, expands eligibility

State representatives said that the food stamp program would expand to include more vulnerable groups, such as single mothers and Holocaust survivors.

 A CUSTOMER shops for groceries at a Rami Levy supermarket branch, in Jerusalem.

Failing to learn from complaints: Israel’s Welfare and Social Affairs Ministry - comment

In essence, the ministry focuses on a case-by-case approach rather than employing a deeper, integrative, and structured examination of the content of the complaints received about social workers.

 The new "Mamuniya" welfare complex in east Jerusalem, opened August 4, 2024.

Health services prepare for emergency situation as northern front intensifies

Welfare and health ministries prepare evacuation, reinforce hospitals and social workers amid escalating Hezbollah-IDF conflict in northern Israel.

 Ambulances outside the Rambam Hospital in Haifa, on March 30, 2020.

New welfare complex opens in east Jerusalem, expected to be city's largest

The opening of the complex is another step toward the establishment of the city's "Silicon Valley"—Kiryat Hi-tech plan, which is hoped will add thousands of jobs in the east of the city.

 The new "Mamuniya" welfare complex in east Jerusalem, opened August 4, 2024.

Gov't to approve 1.03% cut-off in ministries' budget for aid to Gaza border communities - report

The benefits for the evacuees will be financed by a sweeping 1% budget cut.

Electra Afikim's lineup of electric buses; Israel's first wireless charging electric bus depot.