AKIM Israel is National Association for the Habilitation of the Mentally Handicapped in Israel. It represents 30,000 mentally handicapped people and their families.

The Atid Lahaim Association is a humanitarian organization, which assists children and adults sick with cancer, the disabled as well as the nervous system- and brain-impaired.

The Israel Guide Dog Center for the Blind operates with just one objective - to help blind people in Israel to achieve independence and mobility through the use of guide dogs.

Shekel social welfare and rehabilitation principles are: individualization, normalization and community participation through the development of a community-support system that precludes institutionalization.