{"id":26923,"date":"2025-07-14T11:04:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T11:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beitissie.org.il\/?p=26923"},"modified":"2026-02-07T16:19:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T16:19:06","slug":"first-of-its-kind-inclusive-early-years-centre-in-israel-thanks-to-uk-donors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beitissie.org.il\/en\/26923\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018First of its kind\u2019 inclusive early years centre in Israel, thanks to UK donors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The first inclusive and integrated early intervention programme has been launched in Israel, thanks to the generosity of UK philanthropists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beit Raz, an early childhood campus in Ra\u2019anana, run by the organisation Beit Issie Shapiro, will see children up to the age of three with and without disabilities playing and learning together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pioneering model blends therapeutic and mainstream care under one roof, and it is hoped&nbsp;it will reshape inclusive nursery education nationwide, said the centre\u2019s founders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UK contributions have come from the Wolfson Family Charitable Trust, which has funded one of the inclusive classrooms, and the Wohl Legacy, which has enabled the opening of a&nbsp;therapy centre. The campus also includes&nbsp;the Aaron De Lowe Wing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejc.com\/community\/first-of-its-kind-inclusive-early-years-centre-in-israel-thanks-to-uk-donors-uknp8n0p\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">READ complete article as published in The Jewish Chronicle<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read this article in The Jewish Chronicle featuring the opening of Beit Raz: our groundbreaking inclusive early childhood campus, partly funded thanks to the generous support of our UK donors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":26924,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[216,234,215,236,232,233,235],"class_list":["post-26923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-article","tag-beit-raz","tag-early-intervention","tag-inclusive-early-childhood-campus","tag-jewish-chronicle","tag-wohl-legacy","tag-wohl-therapy-center","tag-wolfson-charitable-trust"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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