MESHI
The Rehabilitation Center for Children and Adolescents (NPO) has been a leading force for 25 years, providing comprehensive educational and therapeutic support for children and youth who face complex motor and cognitive disabilities.
1:1
Professionals for every child
Our Mission
Meshi is driven by a strong sense of mission to create the best educational, therapeutic, and environmental conditions that will enable every child to express themselves, participate fully, and experience a fulfilling life. Meshi strives to create a holistic and proactive therapeutic environment, empowering professionals to identify and develop solutions that redefine the limits of what is possible, thereby paving the way for children to lead rich and meaningful lives.
Our Story
Meshi was officially established in 1998, but its roots trace back to the birth of Ruchama Feldman, the ninth child of Lifsha Feldman. Born with a heart defect and later diagnosed with cerebral palsy (CP), Ruchama faced complex motor and cognitive impairments. When Lifsha’s search for an adequate educational setting proved unsuccessful, she decided to take the initiative and establish a center herself.
Lifsha envisioned and built a center where children with complex disabilities could develop, learn, and thrive – a comprehensive environment tailored to the unique needs of each child.
In a remarkably short time, Meshi has emerged as Israel’s foremost rehabilitative center for children, offering innovative educational and therapeutic services in nursery and classroom settings.
Over the years, guided by Lifsha’s vision, Meshi has become
A BEACON OF EMPOWERMENT & ACCEPTANCE
serving over 270 children and adolescents in five educational and rehabilitative centers
Our Centers
To fulfill our mission, Meshi offers an extensive range of services through its various rehabilitative-educational centers. They all promote Meshi’s unique mission, values, and therapeutic approach, tailored to the developmental stage and specific needs of each age group. All centers operate under the supervision of the Ministries of Education and Social Affairs.
Day Care
Rehabilitative day care for children with multiple disabilities
Kindergartens
Cutting-edge educational and therapeutic response in classrooms
Schools
Including high school classes for girls with specialized programs
Yeshiva
The first and only rehabilitative-educational Yeshiva in Israel
Multidisciplinary Center
for outpatient treatments
The Meshi Way
Over the years, Meshi utilized a unique therapeutic approach called “The Meshi Way”. A holistic and multidisciplinary functional treatment method where teams of health and education professionals collaborate to advance the functional abilities and participation of each child in all aspects of their lives. The Meshi Way enables the professional teams to design holistic individual program for every child, which integrates a broad spectrum of rehabilitative and developmental treatments.
The centers also employ innovative treatment programs and tools based on continuous multidisciplinary collaboration and cutting-edge technologies, like virtual reality, space suits, 3D printing, and various assistive technologies. This way, each program can be tailored to the child’s specific needs and abilities — enabling meaningful and sustainable progress.
Occupational Therapy
Speech Therapy
Physical Therapy
Assistive Technology
Education
Emotional Resilience
A full childhood experience
The educational programs at Meshi’s centers are designed to provide children with a school experience that reflects their age and social background, despite their disabilities. The curriculum encompasses all core subjects, enrichment programs, and social events typically found in general education. Additionally, Meshi offers adapted learning programs and activity groups such as robotics, AI, 3D design, Paralympic sports, cooking, music, and more, which broaden participation, knowledge acquisition, social integration, and future employment opportunities.
The Families of Meshi
The warm, family-oriented atmosphere has been a foundational element of Meshi since its inception and continues to be a cornerstone of the Meshi Way. Meshi provides significant support to parents and families, recognizing them as key partners in the child’s rehabilitation process, while also addressing the unique challenges they face as caregivers of children with special needs.
Parents are deeply involved in every aspect of their child’s rehabilitative and educational programs, and are encouraged to visit Meshi to observe their child’s progress and learn how to reinforce development at home. Our teams offer ongoing professional guidance, home visits, personal counseling, and support with medical interventions and claiming social rights. We also provide support groups, recreational events, and workshops for parents, siblings, and grandparents.
As the mothers of Meshi often say:
"Meshi isn’t just a second home for our child — it’s a second home for our entire family, surrounding each of us with care and support every step of the way"
Join Us on the Meshi Way
To make all of this possible, Meshi invests in essential resources beyond standard allocations to ensure effective, individualized care for every child and every disability:
- Significant expansion of government-funded therapy budgets, dramatically increasing access to essential paramedical treatments.
- Additional work hours and training to facilitate seamless multidisciplinary collaboration among professional teams.
- Creation of dozens of permanent positions for professionals and support staff to ensure an optimal staff-to-child ratio.
- Procurement of vital equipment, including assistive technologies, accessibility tools, and other rehabilitative aids, not covered by external funding.
As a result, Meshi is able to accept only approximately 30% of the children who apply each year. The financial gap created by these essential initiatives amounts to around 5,000,000 ILS annually. Bridging this gap is where your support is crucial.
Your donation makes all the difference between a life of limitations and
a LIFE OF FULFILLMENT
While we may know the way forward, we need partners to walk it with us — partners who will help us provide every child with the opportunities, tools, and hope they need to take their next step forward. Partners like you.