Contact Information:

13 Sderot Yad Lebanim
Yad Eliyahu
P.O.B. 9001
Tel Aviv, 61090
Tel/Fax: 972-3-730-3355

Note: The whole staff understands English.

Aleh

Approximately 650 severely disabled Jewish children receive top quality medical, educational and rehabilitative residential care at branches in Jerusalem, Bnei Brak, Gedera and the Negev.

Aleh cares for children with medical conditions such as autism, cerebral palsy and Down syndrome, as well as genetic disorders including Tay-Sachs, Canavan disease and Rett syndrome. Many of them are learning how to overcome their handicaps and do the things that other children do, such as climb on jungle gyms, splash in the pool, finger paint, sing and dance. Others are learning how to eat and how to get dressed by themselves. They are also discovering how to communicate with the outside world.

Main Office

12 Aharonovitz St., POB 435 Bnei Brak 51103
Tel: 03-617-1888
Fax: 03-617-1880
Email: aleh@aleh.org

Alut: Israeli Society for Autistic Children

Alut is a nonprofit organization that works with autistic or PDD children throughout their whole lives, and provides support services for their families. Alut's Beit Lauren in Jerusalem provides personal and group support for families of autistic children. Bet Lauren refers families to services in local communities; maintains a professional hotline during the day; and runs Parents of Autistic Children during the evening hours. For details, see www.beit-lauren.org.il (in Hebrew) or call 972-3-670-9094. In addition to Beit Lauren, Alut runs lectures around the country on topics relevant to autism and PDD, and provides updated information about resources that are available. A support group for family members is also provided.

Main Office:

P.O.B. 943
Givatyaim, 53108, Israel
Tel: 972-3-571-8188
Fax: 972-3-571-8190
www.alut.org.il (English section on the web site is currently under construction.)

Enosh: The Israel Mental Health Association

Enosh provides the following services: housing, vocational rehabilitation, supported employment, social rehabilitation, mentoring and buddy families. Enosh is an agency that works with the government (and specifically, with the Ministry of Health).

Contact Information:

www.enosh.org.il

Michal Ronen, office manger of the professional staff. Phone: 03-5400672, extension: 120,121
Email: michalr@enosh.org.il
Irit Wagner,Senior national social worker. Phone: 03-5400672, extension 126
Email: irit_w@enosh.org.il
Michal Adolmi, vice national social worker. Phone: 03-5400672, extension 125
Email: michala@enosh.org.il

Jerusalem Office:

Rechov Shalom Yehudah 29
P.O.B 91042
Jerusalem, 91042
972-2-6724723

Tel Aviv Office:

Rechov Benbansti 4
P.O.B.5293
Tel Aviv, 61052
972-3-6815032

Eshel: Association for the Planning and Development of Services for the Aged in Israel

For more information, see www.eshelnet.org.il

Ilan-Israel: Association for Handicapped Children & Adults

The mission of Ilan-Israel is to help with the welfare, education and rehabilitation of disabled children up to the time of their maturity and rehabilitation. The services offered by Ilan-Israel include: integrating the disabled person in a suitable educational, occupational or residential framework; sport activities; social activities; summer camps for the disabled; transportation services for disabled children; and individual assistance such as providing special computers or financing paramedical treatments.

Contact Information:

9 Rechov Gordon
Tel Aviv
Tel: 972-3-5248141/2
972-3-5249828 Fax:

Email: ilan@ilan-israel.co.il

www.ilan-israel.co.il/site/index.php?main_id=1&ln=en

Jerusalem Office:

4 Rechov Has Gidim
Tel: 972-2-6253534

Note: The menahalet of Beit Tamar (one of Ilan-Israel's facilities), Einav Kesher, speaks English and can be reached directly at 972-2-625-7410.

Kfar Rafael: Residential Village for the Mentally Impaired

For more information see: http://www.krafael.co.il/main.html

Leshem: Association for the Advancement of Learning Disabled Students in Higher Education

Leshem provides support services for learning disabled students in colleges and universities throughout Israel.

Contact Information:

P.O.B. 4403
Jerusalem 91044
Mobile phone: 972 -523-659-956

Telefax: 972 -9-749-8001
http://leshem.telhai.ac.il
E-mail: guyfink@bezeqint.net

Multi-Service Center for the Blind (Mercaz Rav Sherutim L'Eiver)

Mercaz Rav Sherutim L'Eiver works in conjunction with the Jerusalem municipality.

Jerusalem Office:

Binyan Sha'arei Hair
216 Rechov Yaffo
Tel: 02-5388955
Note: There is an English speaking social worker named Ruti Evroni

Nitzan: Israeli Association for Children with Learning Disabilities

The mission of Nitzan is to identify, assess and assist individuals with learning disabilities, adaptive problems and functional difficulties. Nitzan’s services include didactic assessments, psychological treatment, paramedical treatment and rehabilitation towards independent living.

Jerusalem Office:

Rechov Derech Beith Lechem 97
Tel:  972-2-6733112
Fax: 972-2-672-6252

Tel Aviv Office:

Rechov Alozorov 174
1st floor
Tel Aviv, 649223
Tel: 972-3-6952553; 972-3-6952559
Email: arnizan@netvision.net.il

Haifa Office:

Sderot Hanasi 124
Haifa
Tel: 972-4-8372488
Email: nitzan98@actcom.co.il

www.nitzan-israel.org.il/main/siteNew/index.php?langId=3&page=106&sub=Green

Ohr Le Nefesh

Ohr Le Nefesh is an organization that provides services for the mentally ill in Jerusalem.

Hinda Shrieber, who runs the organization, is a native English speaker and is very helpful.

Contact Details:

Tel: 972-2-622-3294
Email: schryberhinda@hotmail.com

Shalva:  Association for Mentally and Physically Challenged Children

Shalva offers respite services for families of disabled children.  They have a professional staff made up of psychologists, social workers, occupational therapists, physical therapists, music therapists, art therapists and other specialties.  Shalva primarily services children with Down syndrome.

Address:

6 Ibn Denan Street, POB 34449
Jerusalem, Israel 91344
Tel. 972-2-651-9555
Fax 972-2-653-5787
www.shalva.org/frame.htm (This web site is in English.)

Shema

Shema is a center for the hearing impaired, with centers in Tel Aviv, Haifa, Beer Sheva, Tiberias and Jerusalem.

Shema Center in Haifa

The Shema Center in Haifa is a therapeutic learning center for children aged 6-18. The services the center offers include: didactic diagnosis and training, psychological diagnosis and treatment, communication rehabilitation (hearing, speech, and voice practice), assistance and aid in classes (from first grade to high school), guiding and advising children and their parents, therapy (arts, literature, movement and music), computer center (providing the application of teaching through computers), "Bat-Kol" dance group (integrating hearing-impaired dancers with hearing dancers), social rehabilitation courses (social and enrichment), soldier-teachers and National Service volunteers teaching classes in the "Shema" centers, introduction of new ideas in the education and rehabilitation system, gathering theoretical and practical material, providing new and innovative equipment, assistance in purchasing personal hearing aids, loaning hearing aids and FM systems, sign-language lessons, enhancing awareness of special difficulties and needs of the hearing-impaired pupil, absorption of immigrant children with hearingimpairments, and training university students.

Contact Information:

8 Rehov Madregot Beit She'arim
Tel: 04-8512381
Fax: 04-8530024
Email: shema_h@netvision.net
www.shemah.org.il/shemah_en/index1.html

Shema Center in Jerusalem

The Shema Center in Jerusalem offers support to students and their families who are hearing impaired, and are learning in individualized settings. They provide services in the Jerusalem area, including Gush Etzion and Beit Shemesh. The staff includes teachers, English & math teachers, speech therapists, psychologists, art therapists, movement therapists, occupational therapists and social workers.  The center also offers some social services such as hikes, parties and educational programming.

Address:

Dina Stepelman 054-4732294
7 Rechov Borochov
Jerusalem
Tel: 972-2-6428359
Fax: 972-2-642-8440

Note: The person in charge of the Beit Shemesh area, is an English speaker:

Shema Center in Tel Aviv:

30 Rehov Plitei HaSafer
Tel Aviv
Tel: 972-3-571-5656/8/9
Fax: 972-3-571-2017
www.shema.org.il 

Yated

The goal of Yated is to advance the societal integration of persons with Down syndrome, and to offer assistance to their families. Activities include guidance for parents, study days, conferences, information about new treatments, and other areas of interest. For details see: www.yated.org.il/.

Other Services

Alut: Israeli Society for Autistic Children

Alut is a nonprofit organization that works with autistic or PDD children throughout their whole lives, and provides support services for their families. Alut's Beit Lauren in Jerusalem provides personal and group support for families of autistic children. Bet Lauren refers families to services in local communities; maintains a professional hotline during the day; and runs Parents of Autistic Children during the evening hours. For details, see www.beit-lauren.org.il (in Hebrew) or call 972-3-670-9094. In addition to Beit Lauren, Alut runs lectures around the country on topics relevant to autism and PDD, and provides updated information about resources that are available. A support group for family members is also provided.

Main Office:

P.O.B. 943
Givatyaim, 53108, Israel
Tel: 972-3-571-8188
Fax: 972-3-571-8190
www.alut.org.il (English section on the web site is currently under construction.)

Alyn: Pediatric & Adolescent Rehabilitation Center

Alyn is a nonprofit organization treating physically handicapped children and adolescents. Alyn offers services for a broad range of physical disabilities, and is the only facility of its kind in Israel. Alyn includes a staff of medical specialists including physicians, nurses, paramedical services and social workers. It maintains educational staff for day care nursery, kindergarten and a study center; recreation counselors; and a Biomechanical Engineering Laboratory.  Additionally, Alyn offers respite services and safe transportation for children with special needs.

Contact Details
Located on the corner of Olswanger & Shmaryahu Levin Street
P.O.B. 9117, Jerusalem 91091
Fax: 972-2-6433653
Email: alyn@netvision.net.il

Dvora Ben Zvi, Director of In-Service Education
Tel: 972-2-6494387
Michal Bloch, Social Work Department
Tel: 972-2-6494351
www.alyn.org/index.html

Beit Issie Shapiro

Beit Issie Shapiro is an organization that provides a range of services for children with developmental disabilities and their families. These services include special education and paramedical treatment, and innovative new approaches such as hydrotherapy, complementary medicine and multi-sensory treatment. In addition to providing services for children, Beit Issie Shapiro also runs an Emotional Treatment Center, where families are offered the following services: Individual, Couple and Group Counseling; Family Therapy; Play Therapy for Children; Art & Music Therapy; and Psychiatric Consultation.

Contact Details

Issie Shapiro St.
P.O. Box 29,

Ra'anana 43100, Israel
Tel: 972-9-770 1222
Fax: 972-9-771 0465
E-mail: bismail@beitissie.org.il.

www.beitissie.org.il

Chimes Israel

Chimes is a multi-service agency delivering a wide range of services such as: prevocational and vocational training, several types of employment, day habilitation training in independent living skills, and individual support services for people with mental retardation who live at home in their communities.

Contact Details:

Yehudit and Meir Rubanenko Campus
13 Ha'Arad Street
Tel Aviv, Israel 69710
Tel: 972-3-644-2427
Fax: 972-3-647-4047

Israel Elwyn:

Israel Elwyn is an organization that helps children and adults with special needs become active partners in Israeli society. The services provided by Israel Elwyn include: preschool developmental centers, educational services, work activities center, adult developmental centers, small business units, supported employment services, job placement and vocational training, transitional employment, supported group homes and dental services. David Marcus is the Executive Director of Israel Elwyn; he is a native English speaker, and he is very helpful.

Contact Details:

Henrietta Szold St.
P.O.B. 9090
Kiryat HaYovel, Jerusalem, 91090
Tel: 972-2-641-5448
Fax: 972-2-643-0495
Email: info@IsraelElwyn.org.il
www.israelelwyn.org.il.

Enosh: The Israel Mental Health Association

Enosh provides the following services: housing, vocational rehabilitation, supported employment, social rehabilitation, mentoring and buddy families. Enosh is an agency that works with the government (and specifically, with the Ministry of Health).

Contact Information:

www.enosh.org.il

Michal Ronen, office manger of the professional staff. Phone: 03-5400672, extension: 120,121

Email: michalr@enosh.org.il

Irit Wagner,Senior national social worker. Phone: 03-5400672, extension 126

Email: irit_w@enosh.org.il

Michal Adolmi, vice national social worker. Phone: 03-5400672, extension 125

Email: michala@enosh.org.il

Jerusalem Office:

Rechov Shalom Yehudah 29
P.O.B 91042
Jerusalem, 91042
972-2-6724723

Tel Aviv Office:

Rechov Benbansti 4
P.O.B.5293
Tel Aviv, 61052
972-3-6815032

Ilan-Israel: Association for Handicapped Children & Adults

The mission of Ilan-Israel is to help with the welfare, education and rehabilitation of disabled children up to the time of their maturity and rehabilitation. The services offered by Ilan-Israel include: integrating the disabled person in a suitable educational, occupational or residential framework; sport activities; social activities; summer camps for the disabled; transportation services for disabled children; and individual assistance such as providing special computers or financing paramedical treatments.

Contact Information:

9 Rechov Gordon
Tel Aviv
Tel: 972-3-5248141/2
972-3-5249828 Fax:
Email: ilan@ilan-israel.co.il
www.ilan-israel.co.il/site/index.php?main_id=1&ln=en

Jerusalem Office:

4 Rechov Has Gidim

Tel: 972-2-6253534

Note: The menahalet of Beit Tamar (one of Ilan-Israel's facilities), Einav Kesher, speaks English and can be reached directly at 972-2-625-7410. 

Maytal: Israel Institute for Treatment and Study of Stress

Maytal is an outpatient mental health institute, which provides the following services: stress & anxiety disorder program; treatment program for survivors of disaster, sexual assault, child abuse and other traumas; dissociative disorders clinic; organizational consultation on stress and trauma, and presentations, lectures and workshops on related topics; treatment of depressive disorders; sexual dysfunction programs; treatment of child and adolescent adjustment problems; couples and family therapy clinic; health and medical psychology; psychodiagnostic testing; clinical hypnosis; psychiatric consultation and art therapy. Counseling and psychotherapy are offered in English.

Contact Information:

5 David Pinski Street (Corner of Keller Street)
Haifa
Tel: 04-8381999
Email: maytalltd@bezeqint.net
www.maytal.co.il/english/

Nitzan: Israeli Association for Children with Learning Disabilities

The mission of Nitzan is to identify, assess and assist individuals with learning disabilities, adaptive problems and functional difficulties. Nitzan’s services include didactic assessments, psychological treatment, paramedical treatment and rehabilitation towards independent living.

Jerusalem Office:

Rechov Derech Beith Lechem 97
Tel:  972-2-6733112
Fax: 972-2-672-6252

Tel Aviv Office:

Rechov Alozorov 174
1st floor
Tel Aviv, 649223
Tel: 972-3-6952553; 972-3-6952559
Email: arnizan@netvision.net.il

Haifa Office:

Sderot Hanasi 124
Haifa
Tel: 972-4-8372488
Email: nitzan98@actcom.co.il
www.nitzan-israel.org.il/main/siteNew/index.php?langId=3&page=106&sub=Green

Shalva:  Association for Mentally and Physically Challenged Children

Shalva offers respite services for families of disabled children.  They have a professional staff made up of psychologists, social workers, occupational therapists, physical therapists, music therapists, art therapists and other specialties.  Shalva primarily services children with Down syndrome.

Address:

6 Ibn Denan Street, POB 34449
Jerusalem, Israel 91344
Tel. 972-2-651-9555
Fax 972-2-653-5787
www.shalva.org/frame.htm (This web site is in English.)

Shekel: Community Services for the Disabled:

Shekel is an umbrella organization that provides community services in Jerusalem for children and adults with special needs (involving physical, intellectual, emotional, mental and learning disabilities). The services offered by Shekel include: Assessment and Treatment, Education, Community Living, Vocational Rehabilitation, Leisure and Sports, Accessibility Center, Special Programs.

Contact Information:

4 Yad Harutzim St. P.O.B 53105 Jerusalem Israel 93531
Phone: 972-2-6720157/8, Fax: 972-2-6725208
E-mail: shekel@shekel.org.il

www.shekel.org.il/run.html

Shema

Shema is a center for the hearing impaired, with centers in Tel Aviv, Haifa, Beer Sheva, Tiberias and Jerusalem.

Shema Center in Haifa

The Shema Center in Haifa is a therapeutic learning center for children aged 6-18. The services the center offers include: didactic diagnosis and training, psychological diagnosis and treatment, communication rehabilitation (hearing, speech, and voice practice), assistance and aid in classes (from first grade to high school), guiding and advising children and their parents, therapy (arts, literature, movement and music), computer center (providing the application of teaching through computers), "Bat-Kol" dance group (integrating hearing-impaired dancers with hearing dancers), social rehabilitation courses (social and enrichment), soldier-teachers and National Service volunteers teaching classes in the "Shema" centers, introduction of new ideas in the education and rehabilitation system, gathering theoretical and practical material, providing new and innovative equipment, assistance in purchasing personal hearing aids, loaning hearing aids and FM systems, sign-language lessons, enhancing awareness of special difficulties and needs of the hearing-impaired pupil, absorption of immigrant children with hearingimpairments, and training university students.

Contact Information:

8 Rehov Madregot Beit She'arim
Tel: 04-8512381
Fax: 04-8530024
Email: shema_h@netvision.net

www.shemah.org.il/shemah_en/index1.html

Shema Center in Jerusalem

The Shema Center in Jerusalem offers support to students and their families who are hearing impaired, and are learning in individualized settings. They provide services in the Jerusalem area, including Gush Etzion and Beit Shemesh. The staff includes teachers, English & math teachers, speech therapists, psychologists, art therapists, movement therapists, occupational therapists and social workers.  The center also offers some social services such as hikes, parties and educational programming.

Address:

Dina Stepelman 054-4732294
7 Rechov Borochov
Jerusalem
Tel: 972-2-6428359
Fax: 972-2-642-8440

Note: The person in charge of the Beit Shemesh area, is an English speaker:

Shema Center in Tel Aviv:

30 Rehov Plitei HaSafer
Tel Aviv
Tel: 972-3-571-5656/8/9
Fax: 972-3-571-2017

www.shema.org.il

Variety

Variety is an organization that helps children (up to age 18) who suffer from disabilities such as blindness, deafness, Down syndrome, autism and C.P. The services offered by Variety include help with medical needs such as dental and orthodontic work; mouth and jaw surgery; special surgeries; and treatments overseas. Variety also offers occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech therapy, hydrotherapy and movement therapy. They offer help in obtaining special equipment that improves the life of the child and the family, such as wheelchairs, special equipment for the bathroom, etc.

Contact Information:

3 Tvu’ot Ha’aretz St
Shichun Dan, Tel Aviv 69546
Tel: 972-3-6447201, 972-3-6447220
www.variety-israel.org.
http://www.variety-israel.org/english/default.asp

Jerusalem Office:

Rechov Diskin 17
Jerusalem, 96440
Tel: 972-2-5391911
Fax: 972-2-539-1913
Email: var16@variety.org.il

Yad Sarah: Aid for the Elderly and Disabled in Israel

Yad Sarah provides a wide range of services that include: activities for the homebound, emergency alarm response system, geriatric dental clinic, Golden Garden Coffee shops, home services department, home visits by volunteers, information services for parents with special needs children, legal aid for the elderly, Lifelink emergency bracelets, oxygen services and special equipment, the Karten Rehabilitative Computer Center, a toy library, an enrichment center for special children and their families, skills training, an employment center, and transportation for people in wheelchairs. Yad Sarah has branches all over the country.

Contact Information:

Yad Sarah House
124 Herzl Boulevard
Jerusalem
Tel: 972-2-644-4455
Fax: 972-2-644-4508

www.yadsarah.org/index.asp?id=198

Yated

The goal of Yated is to advance the societal integration of persons with Down syndrome, and to offer assistance to their families. Activities include guidance for parents, study days, conferences, information about new treatments, and other areas of interest. For details see: www.yated.org.il/.

Contacting MILBAT:

Telephone: 972- 3-5303739; Fax: 972-3-5357812

e-mail: milbat@netvision.net.il

Milbat, Tel-Hashomer 52621, Israel