Welfare Ministry

Israel’s political parties must make out-of-home care a national priority - opinion

National security is not only about borders, military strength, and weapons systems. It is also about whether a child removed from home has a stable adult waiting at the end of the day.

 THE FOSTER families provide loving, stable homes for children to recover from difficult situations (Illustrative).
Ongoing issue: a homeless man sits on Tel Aviv’s Rothschild Blvd., July 28; on the same city’s Ben-Gurion Blvd., 1970s.

Inside Israel's homelessness crisis: A system struggling to keep up

Director General of the Ministry of Welfare, Yinon Aharoni, and Sheba CEO, Prof. Yitshak Kreiss, signing the agreement

Welfare Ministry and Sheba to establish $25 million innovation arm

n amputee sits with others gathering to mourn Iran's slain supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during the funeral ceremonies at the Grand Mosalla in Tehran on July 5, 2026.

Disabled Iranians deprived of state benefit payments, Tehran invests in war over welfare


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.

Israel offers NIS 10 million to orgs. who will treat young October 7 survivors

The potential target audience for these treatments consists of around 10,000 young people, said the Welfare Ministry, who anticipates that around 3,000 will make use of programs.

 Israeli women and children from Kibbutz Nir after being rescued from Hamas terrorists by the Israel Border Police, October 7, 2023.

Of the 2,500 Holocaust survivors who experienced the October 7 massacre, 86 have died

Israel's Welfare and Social Affairs Ministry announced that 86 Holocaust survivors had died since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war.

 Holocaust survivor, Sarina Blumenfeld, 89, who endures flashbacks from the horrors of her past and now struggles to process the carnage following a deadly infiltration by Hamas gunmen, shows black and white photos during an interview with Reuters in her home in Ashdod, southern Israel, October 23

October orphans: Who cares for Israeli kids whose parents were killed by Hamas?

On October 7, Hamas made many children into orphans by killing their parents. Who takes care of these children now? The Magazine takes a look at this complex situation.

 Israeli children in an Ashkelon bomb shelter, October 8, 2024, just one day after the October 7 massacre.

Aid workers, including from UNRWA, face deportation from Israel - report

Welfare and Social Affairs Ministry employees claim that they simply don't have the tools to give property background checks and security clearance needed to recommend candidates for visa extensions

 A view of the damaged exterior of a UNRWA health centre, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Gaza, in this still image taken from video released February 15, 2024.

Losing family to terror attacks at young age can make academics harder - study

A new Jerusalem study analyzes the effect of losing a parent or sibling in early childhood on educational achievement later in life.

 Thousands attend the funeral of Staff Sgt. Shilo Yosef Amir, killed in a shooting attack near Kedumim, at the Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem, on July 7, 2023.

21 Israeli children orphaned by Hamas's October 7 massacre

One of the children, a four-year-old girl, was orphaned and kidnapped by Hamas and is still being held hostage in Gaza.

 The destruction caused by Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Be'eri, near the Israeli-Gaza border, in southern Israel, October 14, 2023.