Disability in Israel

About 6% of working-age (20-64) people had significant difficulty with activities of daily living while some 10% had moderate disability.

[1] Israel signed the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on 30 March 2007 and ratified it on 28 September 2012.

The intent is to change the attitude towards people with disabilities and reducing the socioeconomic gaps between them and the rest of the population in the various spheres of life.

This law and others also regulate disability pensions, accessibility, therapy, special education, sheltered workshops and assisted living.

In 2017,[7] activists protested the low disability pension by demonstrations, blocking main roads, highways and industries, activity in social networking services, petitions to the High Court of Justice, negotiations with the Government of Israel and bills in the Knesset.

Demonstration and blocking of the road near the Knesset building with Member of Knesset Dov Khenin , Jerusalem , September 2017.