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

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'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.

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

Talia Trust volunteer visited our project in Neve Yosef Haifa last week when the teachers were preparing the pupils for Chanukah. They made up the jelly in cups with spoons represent candles. See how eager they are to learn and recognise familiar items for Chanukah. Note how she builds up saying each the word clearly. Ner Chanukiah

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

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.