Building Israel’s national continuum of special education and lifelong care

For over 27 years, Perach Israel has provided life-changing therapeutic, educational, and rehabilitative care to over 15,000 children, adults, and families annually across Israel. With 5,000 professionals and nationwide operations spanning from the Golan Heights to the Gaza border, Perach Israel is one of Israel’s largest and most comprehensive special education networks.

Building Israel’s national continuum of special education and lifelong care

Why it matters?

Supporting a person with a disability means strengthening an entire family.

Strengthening families means building resilient communities.

And resilient communities are the foundation of a stronger Israel.

One continuum.
A lifetime of support.

Perach Israel’s strongest differentiator is its lifespan continuity model. Unlike organizations that focus on a single age group, disability, or stage of life, Perach Israel supports individuals from early childhood through education, therapy, community living, vocational support, adulthood, and aging.

For families, this continuity means stability — they never have to start over at a new stage of life.

For Israel, it creates a scalable national model of dignity, inclusion, and lifelong resilience.

Why Perach Israel?

Continuity of Care

From infancy through adulthood

National Reach

Serving communities from the Golan to the Gaza border.

Professional Excellence

5,000 professionals across education, therapy and rehabilitation.

Building Independence

Helping people reach their fullest potential.

A Nationwide Presence

With institutions across the length and breadth of Israel, Perach Israel has an unprecedented, wide-reaching impact!

students

institutions

Classrooms

Staff

Years of activity

Katzrin

Tiberias

Zichron Ya'akov

Pardes Hanna

Netanya

Ra'anana

Harish

Karnei Shomron

Yakir

Ariel

Leshem

Bruchin

Alei Zahav

Sha'arei Tikva

Rosh Ha'ayin

Tel Aviv

Givatayim

Bat Yam

Kfar HaOranim

Be'er Ya'akov

Nes Ziona

Givat Shmuel

El'ad

Yehud-Monosson

Nof Ayalon

Givat Ze'ev

Jerusalem

Beitar Illit

Yavne

Gush Etzion

Hof Ashkelon

Sderot

Ofakim

Government funds the basics. Philanthropy builds excellence.

Public funding supports Perach Israel’s essential daily operations, but philanthropy drives innovation and growth. Your partnership moves us beyond basic provision — funding the advanced infrastructure, assistive technologies, therapeutic environments, and capital projects required to transform basic care into lifelong opportunity.

Philanthropic partnership enables Perach Israel to build

Help Build a Stronger, More Inclusive Israel

Explore how your philanthropy creates lifelong care, human dignity, and opportunity across Israel.

Building Israel's Social Infrastructure

Perach Israel is leading the future of special education, rehabilitation, and lifelong care. Disability care is not charity — it is nation-building. Government funds the basics. Philanthropy builds excellence.

Together, we are creating the future standard of disability care in Israel.

Our Partners

The Opportunity

Government funds essential services.

Your partnership builds

New rehabilitation centers
Autism services
Hydrotherapy pools
Assistive technologies
Inclusive learning environments
Projects in Israel's geographic and social periphery

Together we can transform basic care into lifelong opportunity.

Frequently Asked Questions

What national challenge does Perach Israel address, and what is your core solution?

A: Perach Israel addresses two connected national challenges: a shortage of specialized educational and rehabilitation facilities and qualified professionals to staff them, and broader barriers to inclusion and belonging for individuals with complex disabilities. Gaps in physical infrastructure and shortages of professionals – including speech and occupational therapists – limit access to timely, appropriate care. These challenges place significant emotional and economic strain on families, whose access to support can depend on where they live.

Rehabilitative daycare centers illustrate this challenge. These centers are essential educational infrastructure, yet establishing them often requires nonprofit organizations to take responsibility for construction and bridge substantial gaps in public funding. Perach Israel seeks to reshape national priorities so that these settings receive the same recognition and public commitment as other educational institutions.

Our response combines this social vision with direct responsibility for implementation. We establish, build, and operate institutions, reinvesting our own operating surpluses alongside philanthropic support and available public funding. Through this model, Perach Israel builds National Social Infrastructure – permanent facilities and professional capabilities that strengthen care, dignity, and inclusion across Israel:

Inclusion Within Local Communities: We build and operate high-quality facilities serving secular, religious, Haredi, and Arab communities, making specialized education and rehabilitation an integral part of community life.

Geographic Equity in Underserved Regions: We develop educational and rehabilitation infrastructure in underserved communities, helping ensure that access to quality care is less dependent on geography or socioeconomic circumstances.

Capacity for Complex Needs: We create specialized environments and multidisciplinary teams equipped to support individuals with complex and overlapping disabilities, including those whose needs exceed the capacity of existing local frameworks.

Shared Investment, Long-Term Responsibility: We bring together municipal land allocations, public funding, philanthropic investment, and Perach Israel’s own resources to establish institutions and sustain their operation. Our commitment extends from identifying a community’s needs and financing construction to managing the institution and delivering professional care over the long term.

What is Perach Israel's Unique Value Proposition (UVP), and how does your model differ from other organizations?

Many organizations focus on a specific age group, diagnosis, or municipality. Perach Israel is designed as an integrated national network defined by the following core differentiators:

Lifespan Continuity: We provide an unbroken continuum of care from early infancy through adulthood and senior age. Families do not have to repeatedly navigate fragmented providers at major life transitions.

Expertise Across a Broad Spectrum of Disabilities and Needs: We support individuals with a wide range of disabilities and developmental, behavioral, emotional, and learning needs, including intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), autism spectrum disorder (ASD), cerebral palsy (CP), Down syndrome, rare genetic syndromes, behavioral disorders, emotional difficulties, learning disabilities, and language delays. Our multidisciplinary expertise enables us to tailor educational, therapeutic, and rehabilitation support to each individual, including those with complex and co-occurring conditions.

Operational Agility & Execution: We are designed to move quickly from identified need to practical solution – whether adaptive equipment, infrastructure modification, or specialized therapy – without unnecessary administrative delay. When an individual requires adaptive equipment, infrastructure modifications, or immediate therapy, we bypass administrative bottlenecks to deliver uncompromised, real-time solutions from end to end.

Dignity Through Infrastructure (“A Fine Dwelling”): Grounded in the principle that a fine dwelling broadens a person’s mind, we treat architecture as an active clinical tool. Our facilities build self-worth, emotional resilience, and functional autonomy through dignified, high-standard physical spaces.

The “Second Floor” Capital Model: Government funding supports the core operating costs of Perach Israel’s publicly funded services. Philanthropy enables Perach Israel to build the infrastructure, technology, and innovation that go beyond the publicly funded baseline.

Inclusion Built Into the Educational Environment: Perach Israel brings mainstream and special education together by placing its educational settings alongside one another – from daycare centers and kindergartens to classrooms within schools. This deliberate physical proximity creates opportunities for shared activities, everyday interaction, and meaningful relationships between children with and without disabilities. By making inclusion part of the educational environment from an early age, we help build familiarity, mutual respect, and a lasting sense of belonging.

How does Perach Israel address the national staffing crisis in special education and healthcare?

A: The severe shortage of paramedical professionals—especially speech and occupational therapists—is one of the greatest threats to special education in Israel. Perach Israel addresses this bottleneck by building a sustainable human capital pipeline across four strategic pillars:

Academic Partnerships & Early-Career Pathways: We collaborate directly with leading universities and training institutes to create dedicated onboarding and career-entry pathways for newly qualified graduates. By bridging academia and clinical practice, we secure a continuous pipeline of fresh talent for our regional centers.

Employee Experience, Wellbeing & Professional Growth: We place employee experience at the heart of our organizational culture. Alongside high-quality facilities and supportive working environments, we organize team-building days that strengthen relationships and a sense of belonging. Our internal “Perach Lada’at” fund finances professional training for employees, supporting their continued development. Together, these investments help us attract, support, and retain qualified professionals while strengthening the quality and continuity of care.

Continuous Professional Excellence & National Seminars: We invest heavily in our 5,000 professionals through structured regional and national training days. Spearheaded by our internal clinical experts, these seminars elevate ongoing specialized skills, reinforce professional pride, and translate clinical research directly into daily care.

“Second Floor” Human Capital Investment: While state tariffs cover basic salaries, philanthropic capital funds advanced clinical certifications, cutting-edge therapeutic tools, and expert mentorship that public budgets cannot provide.

How We Measure Success: We track this strategy through hard KPIs: staff retention rates, clinical position fill rates, graduate onboarding statistics, and the direct reduction of treatment wait-times for our beneficiaries.

How does a donation to Perach Israel create impact beyond the individual beneficiary?

A: Supporting one individual triggers a systemic ripple effect that creates long-term social and economic return for all of Israeli society:

Family Economic Mobility: Continuous, high-quality care drastically reduces caregiver burden, enabling parents to remain in or return to the workforce – boosting family financial independence and tax contributions.

Functional Autonomy & Deterioration Prevention: Specialized early intervention addresses cognitive and functional gaps at their inception. This prevents developmental regression, maximizes individual autonomy, and significantly lowers long-term dependency on public support systems.

Geographic Resilience: Establishing high-standard therapeutic infrastructure in Israel’s periphery normalizes inclusion, strengthens local community capacity, and bridges structural social divides.

This systemic model converts individual therapeutic progress into long-term family mobility and national social strength.

How do you measure Perach Israel's social impact and financial return on investment (SROI)?

A: Perach Israel currently tracks rigorous operational and service-delivery metrics. To build on this, we are currently partnering with an independent external research and evaluation institute to establish a comprehensive Social Return on Investment (SROI) framework. This model will rigorously quantify our long-term socio-economic value across three core pillars:

Individual Autonomy: We measure mobility and adaptive skills, tracking personal gains and assessing their potential implications for long-term public costs.

Family Economic Mobility: By providing continuous, professional care, we reduce caregiver strain – enabling parents to remain in or return to the workforce, directly increasing family household income and tax contributions.

Economic and social value: We are developing methods to quantify longer-term effects on families, public expenditure, workforce participation, and community resilience. Our goal is to quantify the longer-term social and economic value created by these investments.

Why is philanthropy necessary if the government already funds special education and care?

A: Government funding provides an essential foundation for special education and rehabilitation, but it does not cover the full cost of building specialized institutions or always meet the level of support each individual needs. Philanthropy helps Perach Israel both close these gaps and create a “Second Floor” of professional excellence, technology, and innovation beyond the publicly funded baseline.

Building the Infrastructure: Public construction grants, where available, may cover only part of the cost of establishing a facility. Perach Israel combines these grants with philanthropic investment and its own operating surpluses to build and equip special education, rehabilitation, and residential institutions.

Matching Care to Individual Needs: A publicly funded allocation of therapy does not always match the frequency or intensity recommended by a child’s professional team. Philanthropic support enables additional therapies and individualized interventions, helping bridge the gap between funded provision and assessed needs.

Advancing Quality and Professional Excellence: Donations support specialized therapeutic environments, assistive technologies, advanced staff training, and innovative approaches that help individuals develop their abilities, independence, and quality of life.
Creating Lasting Capacity Through Partnership: Philanthropic investment works alongside municipal land allocations, available public construction funding, government support for ongoing operations, and Perach Israel’s own resources. Together, these contributions turn identified community needs into institutions with a sustainable foundation for long-term care.

Philanthropy therefore serves two complementary purposes: making essential infrastructure and care available where funding falls short, and enabling the quality and innovation that help each individual reach their potential.

Where does my donation go, and how is it used?

A: Philanthropic capital funds the “Second Floor” – the transformative layer of excellence, innovation, and infrastructure that state budgets do not cover:

Capital & Infrastructure Builds: Funding high-standard rehabilitation, special education, and residential facilities designed under our Dignity by Design framework.

Advanced Therapeutic Technology: Equipping hydrotherapy centers, sensory integration spaces, and cutting-edge assistive technologies to maximize functional independence.

Clinical Excellence & Innovation: Training specialized staff, developing new care protocols, and scaling high-impact pilots across Israel’s geographic periphery.

Each designated gift is tracked from allocation through delivery and reporting. Donors can designate gifts to specific capital projects, strategic programs, or geographic hubs, backed by full fiscal transparency & narrative impact reporting.

How do you ensure philanthropic capital is used responsibly?

A: We treat philanthropic contributions as strategic capital investments in Israel’s social infrastructure, governed by strict fiscal accountability and clear impact tracking:

Ring-Fenced Allocation: Major gifts are strictly designated to agreed capital builds, equipment, or innovative programs, ensuring funds directly construct the “Second Floor” without dilution.

Milestone-Based Reporting: We provide transparent financial and operational tracking that links philanthropic capital directly to concrete deliverables: Capital Committed —-> Infrastructure Built —-> Beneficiaries Served.

Multi-Layered Governance & External Oversight: To ensure absolute integrity, Perach Israel operates under the continuous auditing of an independent external CPA firm, external legal counsel, and the fiscal regulatory accountability of the Ministry of Justice. Furthermore, all of our educational, therapeutic, rehabilitative, and vocational frameworks operate under the direct regulatory supervision of the relevant government ministries. Together, these mechanisms provide donors with clear financial accountability and visibility into long-term impact.

How does Perach Israel reinvest its operating surpluses?

A: Perach Israel reinvests its operating surpluses in its mission, allocating them to defined projects, multi-year commitments, and prudent operating reserves that help ensure continuity of care. These resources support the construction and development of educational and rehabilitation facilities, alongside philanthropic investment and available public funding.

Capital projects often span several years, with funds committed and deployed in stages according to approved project milestones. Surpluses therefore help Perach Israel plan responsibly, meet its commitments, and invest in lasting infrastructure.

We invite philanthropic partners to invest alongside us—combining Perach Israel’s own resources with their support to build the next generation of Israel’s social infrastructure and expand the care available to individuals with complex disabilities.

How does Perach Israel ensure the long-term sustainability of its centers, and what is your vision for the future?

A: Long-term sustainability rests on a combination of public funding for core services, Perach Israel’s own resources, and philanthropic investment in infrastructure, additional care, and professional excellence.

Public Funding as an Operational Foundation: Government funding supports the core operating costs of publicly funded services, providing a stable foundation for ongoing care. Perach Israel complements this funding with its own resources and philanthropic support to address needs beyond the funded baseline.

Municipal Backing: Local municipalities allocate the land and permits, securing each center as a permanent civic asset without real-estate acquisition overhead.

Fiscal Discipline: We maintain operational reserves to ensure uninterrupted care for our 15,000 beneficiaries regardless of economic shifts.

Our Strategic Vision: Over the next decade, we are expanding our regional hubs across Israel’s periphery to ensure quality care doesn’t depend on a child’s zip code, while bridging care gaps from infancy through old age.

Why is supporting Perach Israel strategic for Diaspora partners today?

A: For Jewish leaders and major philanthropists around the world, this is a moment to move beyond responding to Israel’s immediate needs and help shape the Israel of the next generation. Rooted in Arvut Hadadit—our shared responsibility for one another—Perach Israel offers a way to turn philanthropic capital into lasting national capacity, strengthening the moral and functional resilience of the Jewish State.

From Response to Nation-Building: Israel’s long-term resilience depends not only on security and economic strength, but also on the strength of its social infrastructure. Perach Israel helps build that infrastructure where the need is greatest.

Philanthropy as Strategic Leverage: The State provides the ongoing operational foundation. Philanthropic capital enables the infrastructure, technology, innovation, and professional excellence that can raise the standard of care beyond the public baseline. A major gift can therefore become part of a much larger, publicly supported system.

Strengthening Human and Economic Potential: High-quality early intervention and lifelong support can improve functional independence, reduce family caregiver burden, and enable parents to remain economically active. The result is not simply better care—it is greater human and economic capacity.

Leadership with Lasting Consequence: Principal philanthropy is most powerful when it creates something that would not otherwise exist. A regional center, a new therapeutic environment, or a national model of care can become a permanent asset serving thousands of Israeli families for decades.

For Diaspora partners, this is an opportunity to move from supporting Israel in a moment of need to helping shape Israel’s future—through strategic capital, measurable impact, and a lasting legacy.

How can corporations and business partners engage with Perach Israel in ESG and CSR initiatives?

Perach Israel offers companies a national platform for measurable social impact and employee engagement. With facilities spanning from north to south, we enable companies to align their ESG goals with scalable social return while driving Employer Branding, internal pride, and employee retention:

Strategic “Adopt-a-Center” & Brand Identity: Corporations can anchor their brand to specific high-impact projects or fund cutting-edge assistive technologies (AAC), directly linking corporate identity with visible, life-changing independence.

Driving Belonging & Employer Branding: Today’s workforce demands purpose. Active engagement with Perach Israel boosts employee morale, builds deep organizational pride, and elevates the company’s reputation as an employer of choice in recruiting top talent.

Seamless Giving & Skill-Based Engagement: Integrated with global corporate portals like Benevity, Perach Israel enables frictionless payroll matching alongside high-impact, skill-based volunteering (in tech, logistics, and management) that develops internal leadership while optimizing our operations.

Measurable ESG & SROI Reporting: We provide CSR and ESG departments with customized impact metrics, translating corporate capital and employee participation into verified Social Return on Investment (SROI) for corporate sustainability reporting.

Building Israel’s national continuum of special education and lifelong care