Social workers

For kids’ sake: Shanti House battles the odds to save Israel's abandoned youth

Shanti House provides a safe haven for children and young adults seeking resources and a place to call home when they find themselves on the streets or in unsafe home environments.

THE MAIN SHANTI HOUSE center in Tel Aviv continues to help down-and-out youngsters rediscover their purpose in life.
Israeli State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman at the annual Jerusalem Conference of the 'Besheva' group in Jerusalem, February 16, 2026.

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

Hundreds of families join foster care system as government expands support

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New project launched to address Jerusalem's social needs

Jerusalem is the city with the most social distress in Israel. There is one social worker for every 400 known social welfare cases.

 “Wrapped in Light” volunteers deliver a Purim package to an elderly woman in Jerusalem

Program at Sapir College helping integrate Arab social workers in Israel

The School of Social Work at Sapir inaugurated a new program to help social work graduates of Palestinian colleges in the Israeli workforce

Maru Zawdu, Social Worker and Deputy Director, Canaan-Meron Absorption Center, Safed conducting an activity with newly arrived Ethiopian children at a Jewish Agency absorption center.

Verbal abuse, no supplies: Social workers' pandemic struggles

These high numbers are similar to those of social workers in Iran, according to the study conducted by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and UC Berkeley.

Israeli social workers protest their working conditions and violence against them in Ramat Gan on July 20, 2020.

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Social workers end strike after signing agreement with Finance Ministry

The end of the strike means that an estimated 1.5 million people will now be able to get the social services they so desperately need during the coronavirus pandemic.

Israeli social workers protest their working conditions and violence against them in Tel Aviv on July 19, 2020.

For social workers, striking as if there wasn’t COVID-19

“The most aggressive virus against Israel’s social services is the Budget Division," said The Union of Social Workers.

A man carries his shopping bags and wears a face mask in a street in Ashkelon while Israel tightened a national stay-at-home policy following the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Ashkelon, Israel March 20, 2020.