{"id":132656,"date":"2026-05-27T03:39:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T03:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/132656\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T03:39:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T03:39:13","slug":"442-families-join-israels-foster-care-system-over-past-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/132656\/","title":{"rendered":"442 families join Israel’s foster care system over past year"},"content":{"rendered":"

442 new families joined Israel’s foster care system over the past year despite a period of uncertainty, security tensions<\/a>, and social and economic challenges, according to the Labor and Social Affairs Ministry.<\/p>\n

The ministry<\/a> released the statistics ahead of World Foster Day, which occurs annually on May 31.<\/p>\n

According to the statement, the ministry has recently expanded financial and training support for foster families and has promoted pending legislation to remove age restrictions for foster parents.<\/p>\n

Statistics released by the ministry show a total of 3,560 children currently within Israel’s foster care system, with an average age of 6.17 years.<\/p>\n

In addition, a total of 905 disabled people, both children and adults, are cared for by the system.<\/p>\n

Minister of Social Welfare and Social Security Haim Katz<\/a> commented on the addition of hundreds of new families to the system, describing it as “evidence of mutual responsibility and social resilience.”<\/p>\n

“Foster families provide a warm home, stability, and a sense of belonging to children and youth in Israel,” said Katz.<\/p>\n

The ministry’s Senior Deputy Director, Eti Kissos, emphasized the importance of foster families, which she said constitute a “stable home for children.”<\/p>\n

“We are committed to continuing to support and strengthen the families that provide children with a stable and safe home, and to giving them the tools and support to continue this important mission,” she added.<\/p>\n

Social worker Adi Mekel, the ministry’s Director of the Foster Care Service, invited additional families to join the system.<\/p>\n

“We are seeing more families joining foster care out of a mission and a genuine desire to impact the lives of children<\/a> in need of a warm and supportive home,” said Mekel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"442 new families joined Israel’s foster care system over the past year despite a period of uncertainty, security…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[5574,15657,37,41433,44308,35790],"class_list":["post-132656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-children","tag-haim-katz","tag-israel","tag-labor-and-social-affairs-ministry","tag-social-workers","tag-teenagers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116644463418755266","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}