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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

Celebrations and activities at Nirim School where Talia Trust has been financing assessment tests annually since 2013. Click on to November Newsletter to read more details about some of the students.

A grateful mother has written her thanks for her daughter's progress with help from Talia Trust's scheme for individual assessments. Read what she said below. Also more details of how to apply on our website click here . 'Evaluation and update regarding a contribution made to our student. Greetings Talia Trust During the year 2023-24, you awarded a scholarship for a psycho-didactic assessment for our 15-year-old student, for which we thank you very much. We would also like

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