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 […]
Caregiver Workforce Crisis: A Strike Barely Avoided; Foreigners to Bolster Labor Shortage
Caregiver Workforce Crisis: A Strike Barely Avoided; Foreigners to Bolster Labor Shortage There is a critical workforce crisis among all organizations serving people with disabilities in Israel. Salaries are very low, not even a living wage. Burnout is high. The job is physical and emotionally draining. Due to recent wage agreements with the Ministry of […]
Leaving Rubenenko – Breakups as New Opportunities
This past August, after over three decades of successful collaboration, Chimes Israel parted ways with sheltered employment services and adult nursing care at the Tel Aviv Rubenenko Center. Chimes Israel began its 32-year professional journey in partnership with the City of Tel Aviv at the dilapidated Ramat HaHayal, Tel Aviv building. Over the years, we […]
The Magical Combination of Learning and Doing: New Training Workshop Prepares Kfar Saba Clients Employment Success
We are excited to share that for the first time we have begun a training workshop for work in the open market that combines theoretical classroom learning alongside practical work experience. The first group, which began its journey in March at Chimes Israel’s Kfar Saba employment center, includes 12 formerly sheltered work clients, who expressed […]
Recovery to Reintegration through Employment Support
Avi was a university grad in his early 30s with a diagnosed mental illness, who found himself attempting suicide triggered by his divorce and estrangement from his young daughter. After his release from a psychiatric hospital, he was still in a lost state with no job or place to live. As part of a team […]
Enjoyment, Self-Esteem & Sweet Memories: a Chimes Educator Explains His Mission
Meet Tomer Amram, an instructor for over four years at the “Chimes Enoch therapeutic afterschool program in Tel Aviv. Born to an Israeli mom and a Thai father, Tomer came to Israel from Thailand at age 13 after his parent’s divorce. “As a child I grew up in Thailand and studied in an international school […]
