Shoham, Tel Aviv and Rehovot are the top three rated cities in treatment of their disabled populations.
Nazareth, Tiberias and Petach Tikva ranked at the bottom.
For the third year in a row the Municipal accessibility index, a cooperative project of the Ted Arison Family Foundation and the Ruderman Family Foundation has been tracking people’s opinions of the people with disabilities.
The study was conducted and it included 3,238 participants across 20 local authorities in Israel.
The results of this study has been released ahead of the International day of people with disabilities which falls on December 3.
The study had participants rate their degree of agreement or disagreement with various indexes of approach, feeling, and behaviors towards people with disabilities. They also rated the attitude towards people with disabilities in the local authority of their residence.
The report also showed that the top three cities with the highest number of reports of discrimination towards people with disabilities were Hadera, Ashdod and Ashkelon, respectively.
The lowest numbers came from Nazareth, Shoham and Herzliya, respectively.
In addition, the study showed, overall that 85% of Israelis believe that the national and local authorities are responsible for taking care of people with disabilities. However, only 52% of responders are willing to personally help them. This number went down significantly from 2016 where 84% were willing to personally help people with disabilities.
The report also showed a decrease in the number of responders who said it was acceptable to joke about or make harmful comments about people with disabilities.
Only 33% of responders agreed as opposed to last year when the number was 41%.
In addition, only 17% justified discrimination against people with disabilities in the workplace or in academic institutions.
Article source: http://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Two-Palestinians-arrested-in-connection-to-Shmerling-murder-506955
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