About us
AndaTherapy for Pediatric Health & Rehabilitation is a registered Israeli nonprofit. We run a multidisciplinary rehabilitation center in Haifa for children and teens with complex disabilities and special needs.
AndaTherapy for Pediatric Health & Rehabilitation (R.A.), run entirely by volunteers, is a comprehensive rehabilitation center. It provides professional, multidisciplinary care to a high clinical standard, accessible and personal, for children and teens with complex disabilities and special needs resulting from congenital disability, cerebral palsy, autism, blindness, neurological disorders and motor impairments, chronic, genetic and autoimmune illness, physical and intellectual developmental delay, and complex syndromes such as CRPS and GTS.
For several years, the center has been a leading professional institution in long-term adaptive physical rehabilitation. It is recognized and supported by Israel’s Ministry of Health in rehabilitation and chronic illness, and specializes in cases at the far end of the care spectrum, where a dedicated, advanced approach is needed that standard settings can’t provide, and where the public system has reached the limit of what it can do.
Our vision: to see every patient beyond their limitation, and to support them as their condition improves on the way to functional independence, with tools to grow stronger, develop, belong and reach their potential.
The scale of the need for multidisciplinary rehabilitation
- The factsIsrael has significant gaps in the availability and accessibility of rehabilitation services, especially for people with complex medical conditions and disabilities. More than 100,000 children and teens with very high disability ratings live without any organized, long-term adaptive rehabilitation framework.
- Where the public system falls shortLong waiting lists, especially outside the center of the country, lead to clinical decline and secondary conditions such as autoimmune disease, obesity, unbalanced blood sugar, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and depression.
- The cost to the systemWithout early intervention, these children become a heavy, permanent economic, health and social burden on the welfare and health systems.
- The family circleAbout 85% of families of children with complex disabilities go through divorce. Without support, most families spiral into financial and emotional crisis, including loss of earning capacity.
That is why we see the whole child: body, function, emotion, learning, family, community and future.
The main goals of the AndaTherapy rehabilitation program
- Improving impairments and coping with disabilities, while discovering and using the child’s full intellectual and physical potential. Building physical fitness and quality of life for a more independent and healthier way of living.
- Awareness of and coping with the effects of impairments and disabilities, slowing their progression and changing unhealthy and unusual habits, with a focus on the needs of the child and family.
- Adapting to and feeling safe and comfortable in their immediate surroundings, such as home, family or school, through behavioral and communication changes, and learning to take care of themselves independently.
- Social adaptation in every possible aspect, at the pace of each child’s individual changes, with the greatest possible positive effect on their inner and physical development.
Don’t fight your limitations. Build new abilities.
The AndaTherapy motto
Our story so far
- January 2023
Registered as a nonprofit and opened in a single treatment room: 18 children, 6 therapists and advisors.
- February 2025
Moved to a larger center in Haifa’s Government Quarter, with 8 treatment rooms, a rehabilitation gym and bungee and budo stations. 180 children and teens, 43 therapists and advisors.
- 2026
Added 4 new rehabilitation equipment systems, 6 bungee therapy stations, and advanced electrotherapy and physiotherapy equipment.
- 2027–2029 Planned
Building the recovery and rehabilitation center at Beit HaChayal in Haifa, and an emergency dental clinic.
Our team and board
- Dr. Chacho IsakFounder and medical directorSenior pediatrician. Board member.
- Miki WassermanFounder and chairmanEntrepreneur in medicine and aviation, formerly with the Prime Minister’s Office. Leads disability and special needs programs.
- Dr. Gennady GeismanFounder, rehabilitation and assessmentSenior pediatric rehabilitation physician.
- Dr. Otniel Be’eriPhysiological rehabilitation and assessmentMD and clinical physiotherapist with about 26 years in pediatric rehabilitation.
- Roman KrasevFounder, budo therapy and physical educationGraduate of the Academy of Sport and Physical Education, special needs track. Martial arts expert.
- Alon DavidovskyProject coordinatorSpecialist in rehabilitative dance.
- Shimon ZenatyFounder and head of financeEntrepreneur in tourism. Board member.
- Alex AbramovAudit committeeEntrepreneur and health-tech specialist. Organizational advisor.
- Miriam Michal KarpanAudit committee and nursingRegistered nurse and nursing consultant.
The late Prof. Avraham Lorber, heart surgeon and pediatric cardiologist, was a founder of the association and led the team that developed the AndaTherapy method. We carry his work forward.
Recognition and standards
- Recognized and supported by Israel’s Ministry of Health in rehabilitation and chronic illness.
- Programs developed in line with the WHO World Report on Disability and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
- Registered nonprofit (no. 580760478) with a 2026 certificate of proper management. See documents
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For a child with a disability, steady, personal rehabilitation can be the difference between dependence and independence. Every gift lets us welcome another child.