E. E. NOSENKO-STEIN Doctor of Historical Sciences Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences Keywords: Israel, immigration, people with disabilities, rehabilitation, adaptation We will focus on one of the groups of Israeli society and especially "Russian Israel" - Russian-speaking immigrants of the so-called "big Aliyah" (immigration) of the 1990s, as well as those who came to Israel from the CIS countries later. It's about people with disabilities and their problems. People with disabilities make up approximately 1/10 of the total population of Israel. Here, as elsewhere in the world, they have their own specific characteristics, needs, collective and individual identity, a special lifestyle, as well as the specifics of adaptation in society. Please specify: who are people with disabilities and what is disability? So far, even in the scientific literature, there is no clear and neutral definition of these phenomena. So, the World Health Organization (WHO) distinguishes impairment (loss of an organ, physical or mental disorders), handicap (difficulties in performing any functions or normal human activities) and disability (limited opportunities due to various congenital or acquired defects).1. Hence the difference in statistics provided by different organizations and in different countries. These definitions are associated, in turn, with the presence or absence of social benefits, various benefits, or, on the contrary, restrictions in certain areas of activity. LIMITED FEATURES. in what? According to the WHO Disability Report, about 15% of the world's population has some form of health restriction. Of these, 2-4% of disabled people experience significant difficulties in functioning.2 Moreover, these statistics are clearly incomplete due to poor accounting in developing countries or as a result of armed conflicts, etc. Strange as it may sound, it is the success of medicine and public health in developed countries that also contributes to the gro ... Читать далее