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 volunteer has made her regular 3 monthly visit to the Neve Yosef Centre in Haifa to discuss the Talia Trust project with the teachers. There are 2 small groups of children who meet for an hour twice a week after their day in their local primary schools. One of the teachers, Sarah, commented that despite the prolonged break because of the war situation, she felt the children had not gone backwards (which is often the case) but returned at the same level as before. There is

We have asked our projects how they are getting on in the current situation. Maayan, the counsellor at Shirat HaYam school in Kiryat Yam writes: 'Returning to the frameworks brings with it great relief, along with the need to process and adapt. The students were very happy to return to school, we see that the consistency of the programme is an anchor of stability for them. They need these sessions now more than ever to fill gaps and also to find a place for personal expressio

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

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

Here you can see Urit Harari, the teacher of English at Shaar HaNegev Psychological Services, describe first in Hebrew THEN IN ENGLISH the challenges of the children in learning and how the individual work helps them. She introduces herself and says in Hebrew: 'I realized that I want to work with children and in education and that English is the most important thing. This is a skill that is acquired by remedial teaching in English How is it really possible that the children

As the war continues and before schools could return to their buildings, Dorit who teaches the Talia Trust project at Givat Gonen Forest School in Jerusalem, writes: 'I can't believe it... Back to zoom ... But I really enjoy it and all the kids participated.' Our March Newsletter is now available. Click here to read it on this website. If you want to have the Newsletter delivered directly to your email address, follow the instructions on the Newsletters page .

Here's the translation of the message that you can see below that the staff at Shirat HaYam School wrote with the plants they gifted in appreciation to Marilyn, Maurice, Lynne and Linda Y. In honour of Talia Trust and dear Marilyn and Maurice. We want to stop for a moment, and say thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Thank you for bravely partnering us in building the future of our school's students. By donating to remedial teaching groups you give them the tools to grow

Last week our volunteers met the principal and counsellor at Shirat Yam school in Kiryat Yam to discuss our projects there. They were presented with plants in appreciation of the help their students are getting through the Talia Trust. Watch this space for more news, video and images about how the children receiving help through our support. Lynne Toubkin and Linda Yama from Talia Trust with Principal Avner and Counsellor Maayan

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.

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.