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Zahal Disabled Veterans Organization

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The IDF Disabled People's Organization is the only representative organization in the State of Israel that accompanies over 50,000 disabled and disabled IDF people in the rehabilitation process. Meanwhile, the organization operates a variety of institutions, including five districts and branches nationwide, as well as four warrior homes in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa and Be'er Sheva.

The IDF disabled organization was founded in the fall of 1949 by a handful of disabled IDF who were hospitalized at the time in Bethan 19 in the rehabilitation department in Tel Hashomer. Since then, the organization has become their second home; And sometimes even the first, of the IDF wounded and he realizes his goals in maintaining and promoting rights and accompanying his friends in the rehabilitation process.

The organization operates five districts throughout the country: Tel-Aviv - Jaffa District and the Central District, Haifa District and the North, Shefala District, Jerusalem District and Beer Sheva District and the Negev, as well as 43 branches nationwide, whose purpose is to care for and accompany the members in various areas of life, including the exercise of rights, accompaniment in committees, production of social events, question and answer evenings, heritage tours, seminars and more.

In addition, the organization operates four warrior homes and soon a fifth warrior home will be opened on the beach of the city of Ashdod. Bei HaLohm are rehabilitation centers in sports, leisure culture and society for the disabled IDF and their families and their mission is to provide the members with an adequate response in the rehabilitation process, so that they can continue to be vital, active and contributing citizens to society.
In the warrior houses, the members find a wide variety of physical activities in the fields of high-achieving and popular sports, as well as a variety of social and creative activities. In addition to enrichment, the members develop personal hobbies in these settings and a social network is formed for them that helps them get out of the cycle of loneliness, which is sometimes created as a result of an injury that impairs the normal routine of life.