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A volunteer from the Purple Vest Mission moves a disabled man to a protected facility during Operation Roaring Lion. (Courtesy)
March 18, 2026, 9:59 am
‘We’re playing Russian roulette’: People with disabilities struggle to reach bomb shelters
Of the 600,000 severely disabled and elderly in Israel, about 40% — roughly 240,000 — cannot make it to safety as missiles fall from Iran and Lebanon, says Access Israel chairman
By Diana Bletter
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
Beni Ben Muvhar, head of the Mevo'ot HaHermon Regional Council, at the damaged hydrotherapy center, on August 13, 2024. (Gavriel Fiske/TOI)
August 15, 2024, 8:47 am
War-wrecked Galilee center for kids with disabilities plans to be ‘larger and stronger’
Mevo’ot HaHermon Treatment and Rehabilitation Campus, closed since Oct. 8 and damaged by an errant missile, includes one of the largest hydrotherapy pools of its kind in Israel
By Gavriel Fiske
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
Brothers Aaron (left) and Peter Berry play wheelchair basketball for the University of Alabama. They both suffered spinal cord injuries and were paralyzed from the waist down in a 2011 car accident that killed their parents. (Courtesy of the University of Alabama Adapted Athletics)
June 29, 2023, 5:51 am
US brothers Peter and Aaron Berry turn tragedy into wheelchair basketball glory
Having lost their parents and ability to walk in a car crash, Houston siblings turn to sport to rebuild their lives and today play for the University of Alabama’s championship team
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Igor Yarmonov and Galina Gurina in their room in a communal flat in Ashdod, December 18, 2022. (Inna Lazareva/Times of Israel)
December 22, 2022, 10:54 am
Disabled world chess champion from Mariupol faces eviction from his Ashdod lodgings
Igor Yarmonov and his wife fled to Israel with the help of chess enthusiasts around the world. Now, with only a week to find new housing, their future is far from certain
By Inna Lazareva
Young people within the Kinneret housing project participate in a practical work experience session. August 2022 (courtesy Kinneret Ltd.)
September 9, 2022, 2:57 am
New law offers new horizon for people with disabilities
Legislation could transform worlds of people with special needs and their families, providing boosts for housing, transportation, care, community services
By Danielle Nagler
Illustrative image: a woman suffering from intense chronic pain (Jelena Stanojkovic via iStock via Getty Images)
July 27, 2022, 10:58 am
Israeli finding may make hard-to-diagnose fibromyalgia easy to confirm
The chronic pain condition can be detected based on analysis of gut microbiome, scientists say in peer-reviewed research, potentially paving way for objective diagnosis, treatment
By Nathan Jeffay
3D Illustration Concept of Spinal Cord (iStock via Getty Images)
February 7, 2022, 10:00 am
World 1st: Hope for paralyzed as Israeli lab spinal cords restore mice mobility
Tech got 12 out of 15 mice in study moving well; human trial expected in less than 3 years, aiming to ‘offer all paralyzed people hope that they may walk again’
By Nathan Jeffay
Illustrative image : a man suffering from severe pain (Aleksej Sarifulin via iStock by Getty Images)
October 29, 2021, 11:17 am
‘Feels like dying’: Israel leads world by recognizing sorrow of chronic pain
Israel now categorizing fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome as a disability; patients say it sets an important example to health policymakers internationally
By Nathan Jeffay
A woman suffering from chronic muscle pain (iStock via Getty Images)
October 27, 2021, 12:39 pm
Israel to recognize fibromyalgia, a chronic muscle pain illness, as a disability
Patients once sidelined by skeptical doctors now given right to claim state allowance; decision impacts many in south whose illness is thought to be brought on by Hamas rockets
By Nathan Jeffay
A staff member and a resident at the ADI Jerusalem facility for individuals with disabilities (courtesy of ADI Jerusalem)
January 11, 2021, 7:56 am
100 residents, 0 cases: How Jerusalem’s largest home for disabled dodged COVID
A rigorously sterile environment and other strict measures have helped ADI Jerusalem elude the pandemic, though staying safe has come at a cost of increased isolation
By Nathan Jeffay
Screenshot from a Kan TV news broadcast in which the language is simplified. Note the logo in the upper right hand corner.
April 12, 2020, 5:53 pm
US foundation teams up with Kan channel to provide accessible coronavirus news
Ruderman Family Foundation supporting nightly news broadcasts with prominent sign language interpreter, voice-overs in simple, slowly enunciated Hebrew
By Sue Surkes
An illustrative image of pain (Marjan_Apostolovic; iStock by Getty Images)
November 10, 2019, 2:55 pm
Fibromyalgia patients to become eligible for state disability stipend
Chronic condition recognized for purpose of state benefits; rocket-battered southern Israel has seen surge in cases over past few years
By ToI Staff
Soldiers and officers from the IDF Military Intelligence Directorate's Unit 9900, which has integrated soldiers with autism into its aerial photography interpretation unit (photo credit: IDF Spokesperson's Unit)
July 22, 2019, 5:13 pm
Israel to arm students on autism spectrum with cybersecurity skills
Initiative hopes to integrate those with disabilities into cybersecurity field, which is eager for more manpower
By Shoshanna Solomon
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