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Ableton On Air is a member of the National Academy for Television Arts and Sciences, Boston, New England Chapter. Hello, and welcome to this edition of Ableton On Air, the one and only program that focuses on the needs, concerns, and achievements of the differently able. I'm your host, Lauren Seiler. On this show, we will focus on Gold in My Air, the life and times of Gold in My Air, former Prime Minister of Israel. But before we do that, we would like to say special thanks to our sponsors, Green Mountain Support Services, Washington County Mental Health, and many others, including the support of the Division for the Blind of Vermont, the Association for the Blind of Vermont, the Montpelier Sustainable Coalition, Central Vermont Habitat for Humanity, and many, many, many others. Welcome to Ableton On Air, and now let's get into the world of former Prime Minister Golda My Air, who was born Golda Malkovich, May 3, 1898, and she died December 1978. She, yes, the State of Israel started in 1948. Her married name was Myersen. Between 1917 and 1956, she was an Israeli state woman politician, teacher, and kibbutznik. She worked on the kibbutz, which is a farm. Let me see if, wait, let me get your volume up here. There we go. Can you hear me now? Yes. Okay. Born in Kyiv, she immigrated to the United States as a child with her family in 1906 and was educated there, becoming a teacher. After getting married, her husband and her immigrated to Palestine in 1921, settling on the kibbutz. Myer was elected Prime Minister of Israel, March 17, 1969, serving as Labor Minister and Foreign Minister. The world's fourth of Israeli-only women to hold the Office of Prime Minister. And the first of any country in the Middle East, she had been described as the iron lady of Israel politics. Former Prime Minister Ben, David Ben-Gurion, used to call Myer the best man in the government. She was often portrayed as a strong-willed, straight-talking, gray-bun grandmother of the Jewish people. Myer was the Prime Minister during the young people war in 1973 and was caught off guard and suffered losses in the first days of war before recovering and defeated, invading armies. The public was angered by the government, caused mass resignation the following year. She died in 1978 from lymphoma. You usually get that from smoking. But, you know, and then when she was Prime Minister, there's a lot of things that also happen for people with disabilities as well. Anything you want to say before we continue? She was a strong woman. Okay, let's go into disabilities in Israel because this is the main focus of our topic. According to the, in terms of Go to Myer and the work of what she did in Israel, according to the 2017 statistical report of the commission of equal rights of persons with disabilities over 1, over 1,400,000 persons with disabilities live in Israel. Again, 1,400,000 persons with disabilities live in Israel. Of these, 450,000 are adults with severe disabilities and are often discriminated against due to their disability. So that is a huge problem with that. Now, according to Israel, the disability definition, a person with a physical a physical, mental, intellectual, including cognitive impairment, is temporary or permanent, which sustainably limits a person's ability to function or more in areas of life. According to Israel, now, if you want to find out more information about Israel and people with disabilities and organization with disabilities, you can go to www.disabilityin.org forward slash global. So Israel basically has services when it comes to hiring, including hiring tests, employment terms, promotion of work. They deal with training and professional advanced studies. They deal with severance pay and all kinds of different things in Israel. Now, let's go into some of the organizations in Israel with disabilities. Hold on. Okay. The special needs resources in Israel is more than the United States, you know, because it has to do with monies and federal help and stuff. 13 special needs organizations in Israel, you should know. The land of Israel is known as many things for people called the holy man and land flowing with milk and honey. And the startup, a startup nation for many names. Israel is well known for its produce, amazing scenery, medical, technology set, sector, scientific advances and much more. What many people do not know is that many nonprofit organizations are dedicated to providing services for programs and individuals with special needs. Following the Jewish preset of love your fellow as yourself, Israel has hundreds of organizations providing medical services, therapy, recreational activities, advocacy and residential options for individuals with special needs. While we could not include all organizations, we would like to provide you or this organization, this resource website would like to provide you with some amazing organizations and give you an idea of what's available to individuals in Israel. Um, um, so there's one called Ale and then there's one called Big Issy Shapiro, which is another one. Number three, Chimes Israel. Number four, Friendship Circle Central Jerusalem. Um, yeah, uh, then there's the Jerusalem variety center. Then there's Kesher, which is number six. Number seven is Kefar Rafael. Number eight is an organization called LOTEM, L-O-T-E-M. Then there's one called Shava and, um, and the list goes on and on. Um, number 13 is, number 13 is Solam and there's also Shekel and a couple of others. So when you get to this website, which is www.friendshipscircle.org, um, you can click on the organization and it'll get you to the organization, which usually brings you to a website. Yeah. More information about that organization. Um, so it's in Hebrew, but a lot of these, um, websites for people in Israel, you can switch them to English. Yeah, yeah, I know. There's a button there. It brings you to the different services and so on and so forth. Yeah. Go ahead. Um, what did you want to say about people with disabilities in Israel? Well, they get the services that they need and what they have to get and they have to, you know, get the different, uh, services that they, that they need for their needs, you know, between autism or what, to get, uh, the program that's appropriate for them. Well, the problem with United States and, you know, this is freedom of speech here. Um, the problem with the United States and people with disabilities is that, um, organizations are cutting, cutting, cutting, cutting, cutting, but yeah, other parts, other parts of Europe and other parts of the globe, um, treat people with disabilities a lot better than United States. Why is that? I have no idea. Maybe it's more, more caring, maybe it's more, that it's more, more situated, more, you know, better. Um, so yeah. Now, getting, getting to the most important thing, um, as far as, um, now in terms of services and people with disabilities, um, there's a, there's another website which is really important. Um, if you ever go to Israel and get services, um, there's an organization or, or, um, see if I can announce this correctly. If my Hebrew is a little bit off, please excuse me, but it's called, um, Co-Co Zero, uh, which is, um, a resource here. It's a Hebrew site. Um, now, also on the side of this website, um, um, if you're a person with a disability, you click and you can get services. Uh, children with special needs can get services. If you, if you need health and illness aid organizations, you can get services. And then government, um, so let's click, um, general assistance within the healthcare system. Uh, in terms of free healthcare, they have this in Israel. Um, social services within the healthcare system, um, in a, you know, uh, for more information, if you're watching, um, from, uh, the United States, and you need to speak to someone in Israel, you can contact a, um, health minister of health website and, um, let's, so let's click there and you can, um, speak to the ombudsman and other, other, uh, different things here. There's an equal rights law for people with disabilities, similar to the ADA, but it's a, it's a lot stronger, especially in Israel. Um, equal rights law for people with disabilities was passed, uh, in 1998 in Israel and was, uh, decisive, was a decisive milestone, uh, for the legal recognition of rights for persons with disabilities within Israeli legal system. Uh, the law anchored the rights of people with disabilities to accessibility and also laid down a set of fundamental principles, um, that served as the guidelines for further legislation and secondary laws. Okay. So basically in terms of, uh, laws and regulations, uh, if you want more information on that, you can go, um, to www.health.gov.il forward slash English, uh, English topics, disabilities. Um, so on the top of this website, um, it talks about health policy plans about the ministry, um, so on and so forth. So let's go here. The Ministry of Health, uh, bears national responsibility in sharing the health and population of Israel. And this was really all started by help by Golda Meir and her way of thinking. Um, the ministry determines the policy of matters of health and medical services, uh, for people with disabilities, people with special needs, and many other people in Israel. Planning, supervision, and control licensing. It helps, um, if someone was trying to find a doctor and you want to know if they're licensed, you go to this website. Um, the ministry, the ministry deals with the organization, operation and provision and preventive diagnostic treatment and rehabilitation and research and services, um, directly via medical institutions. The ministry provides, uh, health services in, in the field of hospitalization, uh, preventive medicine and ensures the population of matters of mental health, mental and physical health, uh, genetics, public health and rehabilitation, uh, devices. Okay. So, um, anything you want to say? Because we only have a little time left. Not really. Okay. The ministry's vision, um, in Israel for the health ministry to uphold the basic rights and health, um, health promotion for the entire Israel population through a medical system striving for the utmost excellence on, um, while, uh, while respecting the values of human and social dignity. The problem with people in the United States and organizations again, um, and people in the United States, everybody here is, um, everybody in the United States is complacent. Um, you know, health here is always being cut. We always have to fight for Medicare and Medicaid. So, um, there's no reason why. You have to fight for something that you want and you want it and they don't want to give it to you. And since we do, they pile up on you. Exactly. Um, and here's another thing that, uh, the health ministry does. They do a lot of research and they're very efficient when it comes to that. Um, they deal with, um, and, and they deal with mental health. They deal with geriatrics. In other words, if you want to find out more about a nursing home, you can click here. So for more information on the health ministry, um, and also, and what's onto, what was on today's program. So for the health ministry, you can go to www.health.gov.il, forward slash English. Um, and, and you can also get that. And, and also, uh, for more information on the life of Golden Maier, you can go to Wikipedia and find out all kinds of things about her. What's the film they had? A woman called Golda starring, um, um, I didn't mean why in England. Yeah. Um, 1982, there was a movie, um, about a woman called Golda, uh, which was a very good, uh, movie as well. Um, England, Birmingham, Plato, and me, me and my Plato husband. Exactly. Um, the story, the story was about a Russian born Wisconsin raised woman who rose to Israel's prime minister in the 1960s and 70s. Um, so you can go and, um, look on YouTube and look on that. Um, there's a book called, uh, Lioness. Golda Maier in the Nation of Israel. Um, there's, uh, one called My Life, Golda Maier, and, um, there's several versions of that. Um, again, um, Golda Maier was born in 1898 and passed away 1978. And, uh, for more information also on our show, um, and more about the topics on our show today and future shows, you can go to www.OrcaMedia.net. Uh, thank you for joining us today and glad we could talk about Golda Maier and the progression of Israel and people with disabilities. Um, again, www.OrcaMedia.net. This puts an end to this edition of Abledon and Erebro before we end. We would like to say, um, special thanks to our sponsors, um, Washington County Mental Health, Green Mountain Support Services, and many others, including the help from the Association for the Blind in Vermont, the, um, Division for the Blind in Vermont, um, the Sustainable Wonpunya Coalition, the Central Vermont Habitat for Humanity, and many, many, many others. I'm Lauren Seiler. I'm Arlene Seiler. See you next time. Abledon on Air is sponsored by Green Mountain Support Services, empowering people with disabilities to be home in the community. Washington County Mental Health, where hope and support comes together. 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