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Elie Klein. Credit: Courtesy.

Elie Klein

Elie Klein is the North American director of development for ADI (adi-israel.org), Israel’s network of specialized rehabilitative care for those touched by and living with disability, and an international advocate for disability inclusion, equity and access.

ADI Negev Volunteers
Opinion
Crisis, conflict and the kindest generation
Israeli youth have channeled their fear, pain and dread into fortitude, positivity and a desire to heal others.
May. 25, 2025
Elie Klein
Pomegranates in Kibbutz Hulda in central Israel, Sept. 22, 2022. Photo by Mendy Hechtman/Flash90.
Opinion
On pomegranates and human potential
Sep. 4, 2023
Elie Klein
Chanukah Menorah
Opinion
Hanukkah and inclusion are under attack
Dec. 3, 2020
Elie Klein
Artist's renderings of the ALEH Negev-Nahalat Eran Neuro-Orthopedic Rehabilitative Hospital. Credit: Courtesy.
Features
Plans for expanded village at ALEH in works, plus neuro-orthopedic hospital
Set for completion in 2021, it will increase the number of Israel’s rehabilitative hospital beds, and create more housing and jobs in the Negev Desert.
Aug. 9, 2020
Elie Klein
ALEH's core medical staff and select National Service volunteers have spent the last two months shielding the residential network's hundreds of immunocompromised residents with severe complex disabilities from COVID-19. Credit: Courtesy.
Features
Corona cocoon: An inclusion icon shares quarantine best practices
“From day one, I stressed the centrality of discipline, the importance of checking and rechecking every detail and every decision to make sure that our residents are being provided with the very best care. Again, with a population this vulnerable, there is no room for error.”
May. 22, 2020
Elie Klein
ALEH residents with severe disabilities enjoy their favorite quarantine activity: watching the story time videos created just for them by Californian children's book author Jamie Kiffel-Alcheh. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
COVID-19: A master class in disability inclusion
By providing some much-needed perspective, this crisis has opened our hearts to the urgency of communal involvement and our eyes to how easily we can make a real difference in the lives of others.
May. 4, 2020
Elie Klein
A young woman at ALEH lights the Hanukkah menorah with help from a staff member. Credit: ALEH.
Opinion
The ‘miracle’ of disability
Watching countless marvels unfold day after day has provided me with a profound appreciation for both the intricacies of the human body and the resilience of the human spirit.
Dec. 17, 2019
Elie Klein
Yonit Efrati, director of community integration for the Ministry of Justice's Commission for Equal Rights for People with Disabilities, explains the importance of person-first language to students and educators during a conference titled “Disability Inclusion and Integration in the Haredi Educational System” on Dec. 23, 2018, at Ono Academic College’s Haredi Campus in Jerusalem. Credit: Courtesy.
Features
Israel’s ‘haredi’ community embrace disability inclusion, integration
Geula Avidan, dean of students at Ono Academic College’s Haredi Campuses, said “we need to think of individuals with disabilities as people first, not charity cases, and we need to consider what they deserve, what they can contribute, and how we can help them achieve in the classroom and beyond.”
Dec. 31, 2018
Elie Klein