Tony Suckerman, representing the Talia Trust at today's Haifa Stair Race (often referred to as the Haifa Stair Challenge), early this morning Friday, June 5. Haifa Steps Challenge is a rugged, uphill fitness event. Instead of a traditional flat road race, this challenge leverages Haifa's famous mountain geography. The Route and the Challenge The event flips the usual tourist path upside down. While most people prefer to descend Haifa’s historic stairways to take in the views,

Keren Saar writes about our Talia Trust project at Shaar HaNegev: I am happy to inform you that despite the war we managed to start with some of the students back in February. Immediately after Passover, we continued full force to give more and more students the opportunity to use our services Some students will want to continue during the summer break, and we already have a long waiting list for new students.

See Marilyn's latest NEWSLETTER where she reports on our projects, including the Neve Yosef Centre in Haifa. She quotes Hibaat, one of the teachers, who says: 'We cherish and appreciate the significant support you provide to the learning centre and students.' To all our students and staff in our Talia Trust projects as well as our loyal supporters who enable our successes for children who need this vital support, we wish you chag Shavuot sameach.

Our volunteers ran last week in the Jerusalem Marathon. They are collecting donations for our Talia Trust projects. Talia Trust is continuing to focus on supporting children with specific learning difficulties who have been traumatized and psychologically damaged as a result of the war raged on all our borders. Children in many families are continuing to face new problems as a result of traumatic family events caused by the war. We are, therefore, being asked to expand our

Great achievements by our volunteers in today's Jerusalem Marathon. They ran to support our projects to help children with specific learning difficulties get the help they need especially with the added continuing traumas of recent times. DONATE NOW

Read our Pesach Newsletter here. This week the 2026 / 5786 Pesach school break begins but school-children, parents and teachers are longing for the day that school will resume in a regular way, meeting in classrooms. Meanwhile we send hopes and wishes for a Happy Pesach holiday, when Israeli children can again play freely outdoors and meet up with their friends. When that happens we will fund additional hours to make up the hours that children in our projects will urgently

A new message from Keren Saar, the coordinator at Shaar HaNegev Psychological Services to you, their supporters. Keren says: 'The Adaptive Leaning Centre in the Shaar HaNegev Psychological Services Centre help more than 50 students every week. These are students who have experienced so many gaps - from the Corona years; from the Iron Swords War; they were evacuated to hotels. And even now we try to get them back to normal. Once again war with Iran. All your support and assist

Support the Talia Trust in the Jerusalem Marathon 2026. You can choose your race: Full Marathon (42.2 km) Half Marathon (21.1 km) 10 km 5 km Family race (1.7 km) Community Race (800 m) OR if you can't run, please DONATE NOW. Full details NOW available. Click the link on the Jerusalem Marathon 2026 page

How can you support our Jerusalem Marathon 2026 campaign? Follow our website where details will be coming SOON! Soon we'll be making the new Jerusalem Marathon 2026 page LIVE. You'll see our aims and images from projects and past races . You'll be able to DONATE directly from there.

Who'll be running to support Talia Trust in the Jerusalem Marathon 2026 on 27th March ? Watch this space. . . . Details coming soon.

You can now read our latest Newsletter click here to read the stories in full. Find out - how we deal with emergency requests for help. - how buying your own copy of a new novel about Ethiopian immigrants will contribute to our funds, courtesy of the author Claire Frieze. - and more ...

Here you can see students at Nirim School commemorating the Holocaust at their ceremony in 2025. Talia Trust has supported students at this school for many years.

Many children are still living in trauma from the effects of the war, such as their f athers' prolonged absence in miluim (army reserve duty). Group therapy is possible when the children have shared concerns. Shirat HaYam school in Kiryat Yam has requested an extension to the group therapy programme that we funded last year. The Talia Trust Committee has agreed to extend the Barrie Greenson Memorial Project to include group therapy. We will fund two groups, each with fiv

More fun Chanukah preparations In the visit in December we saw one of our four Talia Trust groups at Shirat HaYam school. All 5 children in this Class 2 group were in attendance. They were very eager to interact with the specialist teacher who had very firm control. You can see in the photos how much the children enjoyed and were engaged in the activities of Chanukah preparations. They got positive feedback by the teacher. Over the four years that Talia Trust has assisted at

Maurice describes the new Israeli tax regulation for donations. He explains what you need to do in our latest newsletter. Read it here to find out what you have to do. Chanukah sameach.

Talia Trust committee wishes our volunteers and supporters, staff and students in our projects and all Israel a Shabbat shalom and a joyful Chanukah next week. Here you can see Chanukah preparation in the Talia Trust project at Givat Gonen Forest School Jerusalem.

You CAN NOW watch the video showing how Nirim School started the school year. They had the video soundtrack of the famous song by Gidi Gov "A Matter of Time" which was the theme tune for the popular TV series "A Matter of Time" that took place at a high school. We cannot use the music because of copyright but you can listen to the song and see the lyrics in English now here . We recommend you listen because the message and the sounds fit so well to the Nirim story. The chorus

You can read our December 2025 Newsletter now here on our website: first click Newsletters and then within Newsletters click on to December to open the Newsletter. You'll find out about our present and former students at Yeadim School and see many more photos of their activities. On this page you can scroll down to Comments and tell us what you you think about our news.

Talia Trust visited Yeadim High School in Kfar Bialik recently to meet the new principal, and the counsellors, to discuss progress of students who have received help from the Talia Trust. The school specialises in preparing students in vocational subjects. We were introduced to students in the bakery where they already make food for events. Many of these students go into catering services during their army service. We also watched the make-up students practise painting on wou

Maurice writes: I am pleased to report that with the help of our wonderful supporters both in Israel and overseas, the Rosh Hashana Appeal has enabled us to release 41,000 shekels for a further 20 children to receive special individual assistance for 12 weeks at our Shar HaNegev Project. Their school counselors are hopeful that these lessons will ease them back into their regular classes after the traumatic period they have endured during the War. In the photos you can see: 1