Accessible tourism must address social disabilities, too
Professor studies how leisure and rec venues can be more welcoming to those with physical limitations as well as autism, obesity, gender differences.
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Professor studies how leisure and rec venues can be more welcoming to those with physical limitations as well as autism, obesity, gender differences.
In the past nine years, Dr. Morris Hartstein has examined more than 7,000 Ethiopian Jews and helped 17 Ethiopian doctors receive training in Israel.
Pnimeet Bike Recycling in Jaffa and Jerusalem teaches people how to fix old bicycles instead of throwing them into the garbage.
Following its success spreading awareness and accessibility to veganism in the Israel and UK, the self-sustaining nonprofit heads to New York City.
13 student refugees are learning Hebrew along with math, computer science and physics. Some will continue with bachelor’s degree studies in Israel.
Special one-year program helps immigrant physicians from Eastern Europe prepare for Israeli life and Israeli licensing exams.
Internet-ready classrooms in neighboring countries allow students fleeing the war to continue learning with their own classmates and teachers.
7 elite track-and-field athletes are among more than 50 Ukrainian youth finding refuge at Hadassah-run facilities.
Some of the volunteers have started to take the elderly for medical checkups; others have invited them for Sabbath dinners. One volunteer brought his children to play with a 90-year-old man.
More than 6,000 civilians were treated, 40 surgeries performed, 21,000 lab tests and 800 diagnostic images analyzed.
One man’s mission to bring his disabled father on a hiking trip led to an innovative wheelchair and an organization that brings the disabled a unique chance to take trips in nature.
The Nopo team says partnering with Ukraine’s Gunia Project brings exceptional artisans to the fore and supports them in this difficult time.
A KKL-JNF delegation met with Guatemalan president to discuss water management and development in desert areas of his country.
Israeli medical and parliamentary officials fly to Ethiopia to see how Israeli hospitals can help Ethiopian hospitals treat civil war victims.
Dr. Nidal Muhanna could have sent a colleague to Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center that night, but he felt obligated ‘to set a different example.’