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Graduates from a What's Mine is Yours class at Keshet in Chicago. (Courtesy Melton via JTA)
February 25, 2026, 5:54 am
New curriculum brings adults with intellectual disabilities into heart of Jewish learning
An increasingly popular program from Melton and Matan adapts Torah, prayer and holiday study for learners around the world who’ve been long left out of formal adult education
By Jackie Hajdenberg
President Isaac Herzog made an unannounced appearance at a Jerusalem Purim party for children with disabilities, March 2025. (Deborah Danan via JTA)
March 14, 2025, 5:26 am
At Herzog Purim party for children with disabilities, costumes are inclusive by design
Second lady Michal Herzog says Jerusalem event serves as reminder of how Israel will need to accommodate large number of wounded soldiers returning from war
By Deborah Danan
From left to right: Kivunim flatmates Elad Kornhauser, Maya Ronen, Aya Jaber, and Maysoon Samaka. (Courtesy)
December 23, 2023, 1:56 pm
At group home in Nahariya, bond between Muslim and Jewish young adults survives Oct. 7
Aya Jaber, 22, feared being ostracized after the Hamas atrocities, but connection with her friends and flatmates in northern Israel, who also have disabilities, is unbroken by war
By Diana Bletter
Israeli athletes celebrate gold and silver medal wins in the double men's table tennis event at the Invictus Games in Dusseldorf, Germany, September 2023. (Courtesy of ZDVO)
September 19, 2023, 6:14 am
IDF disabled veteran athletes bring home 14 medals from their first Invictus Games
Israeli team makes a splash in its debut at sports competition for wounded combatants from around the world, meets ‘kind and friendly’ games founder Prince Harry
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
August 19, 2023, 12:15 pm
Cops probe death of mentally disabled women after signs of violence found on her body
Investigation launched as resident of hostel in Beersheba dies after being brought to the hospital in critical condition
By ToI Staff
Brandon Farbstein spending time on a Washington DC hiking trail in 2019. He dedicated his professional career to advocating on behalf of others who are disabled. (Courtesy)
July 19, 2023, 6:57 am
Disability advocate tours Israel on Segway as part of outdoor-focused Birthright trip
Author and public speaker Brandon Farbstein, who has a rare form of dwarfism, says there is ‘much room for improvement’ in Israel when it comes to accessibility for disabled people
By Charlie Summers
Artist Mia Schon finishes a mural in one of the activity rooms of the Hole In the Wall Gang Camp, March 2, 2023, in Ashford, Connecticut. (AP Photo/Pat Eaton Robb)
March 22, 2023, 4:38 am
Paul Newman’s camp for sick kids rises from the ashes
Hole in the Wall Gang Camp for seriously ill children, founded by late American actor, reopens in $4.5 million rebuild following devastating 2021 blaze
By Pat Eaton-Robb
Mariam Kansan, 27, a Palestinian with special needs, works at a boutique hotel ran by the Maan Lil-Hayaat, an organization which supports Palestinians with intellectual disabilities, in Bethlehem, in the West Bank, on August 26, 2022. (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)
September 1, 2022, 9:00 am
A Bethlehem boutique hotel is changing perceptions of disabled Palestinians
Maan lil-Hayat employs people with intellectual disabilities, giving them skills for life and also raising their visibility in a society where they are often shunned
By Rosie SCAMMELL
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, right, and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid at a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on May 15, 2022 (Courtesy Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 23, 2022, 1:58 pm
Daily Briefing May 23: Iran gets angry; Lapid gets vocal about disabilities funding
Military reporter Emanuel Fabian discusses a recent turn of events with Iran, as political correspondent Tal Schneider looks at Knesset debates over an IDF education bill
By ToI Staff
Israel is a world leader in the field of assistive technology, which helps disabled people cope with their environment. (Iacopo Luzi/Times of Israel)
December 4, 2021, 6:11 pm
Poll shows 1 in 3 Israeli parents do not want kids to study with the disabled
Survey by Access Israel also indicates half of Israelis know a person who uses a disabilities parking permit without warrant
By ToI Staff
Shirley Pinto, the first deaf Knesset member, speaks during a plenum session on July 12, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
July 12, 2021, 11:04 pm
First deaf Knesset member gives maiden speech in sign language
‘Alongside me stand 1.8 million men, women, and children with physical, mental, emotional, and intellectual disabilities,’ says Yamina MK Shirly Pinto
By Amy Spiro
Richard Bernstein, a justice on Michigan's state Supreme Court, has been stuck in Dubai since January 2021. (Asma Ali Zain/JTA)
April 10, 2021, 9:12 am
Blind Michigan Supreme Court justice en route to Israel gets stranded in Dubai
For the past two and a half months, Judge Richard Bernstein has held court while walking the famed Palm Jumeirah Boardwalk
By Asma Ali Zain
Denise Sherer Jacobson (left) and friends at Camp Jened (Courtesy of Denise Sherer Jacobson)
June 28, 2020, 4:58 am
How a hippie New York camp put rocket fuel in disability advocacy
Netflix documentary ‘Crip Camp’ charts how an inclusive 1960-70s summer camp in the Catskills shaped activists who are fighting for equality today amid the COVID-19 crisis
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Most of these children from the Protestant Katharinenhof institution were euthanized at Sonnenstein (public domain)
May 9, 2020, 12:15 pm
80 years ago, lethal Nazi T4 center began euthanizing Germans with disabilities
After implementing tens of thousands ‘merciful deaths,’ Hartheim Castle’s crematoria personnel were sent to build Holocaust death camps in occupied Poland
By Matt Lebovic
Shira Yalon-Chamovitz (YouTube screen grab)
March 2, 2020, 9:24 pm
Election broadcast relaxes a harried news cycle for the cognitively impaired
Latest election day creates another opportunity to offer simultaneous translations of broadcasts for those who struggle to understand fast-paced reports
By Jessica Steinberg
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