Child Welfare In Israel

Abstract

Israel has often been described as a child centered culture. It is also a manifestation of values concerning the role of children in preserving the continuity of the State, its culture, and the Jewish people. Today’s child welfare services reflect the ideologies, the historical developments and the needs of the Jewish community in Israel and Palestine during the past 50 years. The use of residential care for dependent children is very widespread in Israel. Nearly twenty institutions for infants, some of them housing up to 200 babies and toddlers, exist in Israel. Among the range of child placement settings utilized in Israel is foster home care. The number of court hearings involving adoption of children in Israel has grown steadily over the past years, from 44 cases in 1950 to 257 in 1967, while the number of children under 19 years of age increased only 1.9 times during the same period.

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