This portal contains information about assistance available to those who need medical or rehabilitation equipment.
Some assistance is guaranteed by law, and some of it is provided by various organizations that offer equipment lending services or whom sell equipment at heavily discounted rates.
Medical and Rehabilitation Equipment - General
- Assistance Purchasing Rehabilitation Devices from the Ministry of Health
- Medical Equipment Lending Services for People with Disabilities and the Elderly
- Financing Augmentative and Alternative Communication Devices
- Grant for work accident victims with severe disability
- Borrowing medical equipment for a premature infant
- AZARIM A collection of information of medical equipment from the Milbat Association.
Assistance for Holocaust Survivors
Walking and Mobility
- Assistance Purchasing Walking Devices
- Assistance Purchasing Mobility Devices
- Funding for standers for children and youth
- Loan for Purchasing Mobility Accessories in a Handicap-Accessible Vehicle
- Reimbursement for Mobility Accessories in a Private Vehicle
- Loan to Install a Wheelchair Lift in a Handicap-Accessible Vehicle
- Grant for work accident victims with severe disability
Hearing Rehabilitation
- Assistance Funding Hearing Devices for Children
- Assistance Funding Hearing Devices for Adults
- Assistance Funding Hearing Devices for People Age 65 and Older
- Subsidized Hearing Devices from the Foundation Optical Center
- Hearing Implant Funding
- Communications Basket for the Deaf and Hearing Impaired - Reimbursement for the purchase of assistive devices
- Pagers (Beepers) for the Deaf and Hearing Impaired
- Reimbursement for Baby Monitors Purchased by Deaf and Hearing Impaired Parents
- Tax Refund for Fax Machines Purchased by the Deaf and Hearing Impaired
Equipment for Diabetics
Assistive Devices for the Blind
Victims of Hostilities
Families of Victims of Hostilities
Aid Organizations
- Light to the World (Or LaOlam) - Free medical equipment lending service across Israel
- Variety
- Yad Sarah - Click here for more information about equipment lending on Yad Sarah's English website
- Kivunim - Information Center for Medical Rights
- Kamaayan Hamitgaber - Operates in Pardes Hanna, Karkur, Elyakhin, Givat Haim Meuhad
- Lions Israel
- Milbat
- The Michaelson Institute for Rehabilitation of Vision
- Ma'ayan- Alyn Hospital
- The Mishcon Family Center for the Safe Transportation of Children with Special Needs - Alyn Hospital
- Rehabilitation Center in the Loewenstein Hospital
- The Foundation Optical Center
- Ner David Avi - Equipment lending in the Ashkelon, Netivot, and Ashdod regions.
- The Central Library for the Blind, Visually Impaired and Handicapped
- Saad V'marpe
- Ezer Mizion - Click here for more information about equipment lending on Ezer Mizion's English website
- Ezra Le'marpeh
- The Arab Association for the Disabled
- Keren Yishi - Marpe L'Hayim
- Re-Specs Frames for the Needy
- Refaeinu V'Nivasheia
- Tikva Umarpe - For pediatric dialysis, kidney transplant and nephrology patients
Government Agencies
- The Ministry of Health
- The Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs and Social Services
- The National Insurance Institute
Laws and Regulations
Additional Publications
- Allocation of Rehabilitation and Mobility Devices for People with Disabilities - A Knesset Research and Information Center document from 19.03.2012
Credits
- English translation and maintenance by The Shira Pransky Project.