Corporate Compassion — Volunteers Brighten our Clients’ Lives on Good Deeds Day
Good Deeds Day began in Israel 18 years ago and is now a global event that unites 110 countries in action to do good for others and the environment. Millions of people and thousands of organizations around the world are involved in this day. A long-standing tradition at Chimes Israel, year after year, we receive exciting feedback […]
Celebrating Growth: Meet Shirley Trousil Frankel, Our New Vice President and Program Director
We are happy to introduce you to Shirley Trousil Frankel, who was appointed Vice President and Program Director at the Organization upon the departure of Vered Carsenti. Shirley Frenkel has been providing services to people with disabilities and their families since 2013. This includes positions as Chimes Israel’s directors of the early childhood and after […]
Breaking Barriers: Empowering Arab Women with Disabilities through Academic Studies and On-the-Job Training
We are excited to share that after more than a year of intensive work, in a joint initiative of Chimes Israel and the Beit Berl Technology Center, we opened a unique academic knowledge and practical experience training program for Arab women with disabilities. The program trains the women to be early childhood classroom assistants and […]
Chimes People with Disabilities Show their Empathy and Compassion for Soldiers & October 7th Abductee Families
With the desire to express their support for the families of soldiers and abductees, our service recipients at the various centers participated in many special and exciting initiatives. Children from the Enoch afterschool program made a large painted 3-D diorama of kibbutz life out of popsicle sticks, mosaics, and cardboard, in support of the hostages. […]
A spirit of Renewal
Chimes Israel continues to grow and innovate. In Kfar Saba, we opened a new adult therapeutic nursing day care center. This colorful pleasant building is immersed in nature’s greenery. It operates daily, from morning to afternoon, working with people with moderate to severe disabilities. Daily activities at the center, which exercise fine and gross motor […]
Overcoming Crisis and War Trauma Through Organization-wide Resilience Training
Chimes Israel has recently launched organization-wide resilience training program to help our employees learn how to cope with stressful situations and intervene better in times of emergency. They will also learn to better care for and impart this knowledge to our service recipients with disabilities at their individual cognitive levels. Workers have told us that […]
Generosity during Crisis: Many Donors Rally Behind Chimes Israel’s Wartime Emergency Fund
At the start of the war while Israel’s Homefront Command ordered our centers closed, we reached out to the staff and families of all 25 centers and programs to see what could be done to help. Our most vulnerable populations were in Ashkelon, shut in their homes and air raid shelters as thousands of rockets […]
