Photo Credit: courtesy, Beit Issie Shapiro
Children from Beit Issie Shapiro and their children show their whleelchair-accessible Purim costumes at the President's Residence. March 12 , 2025

Children with disabilities from Beit Issie Shapiro and their parents proudly displayed their special wheelchair-accessible Purim costumes on Wednesday in a visit to the President’s Residence in Jerusalem.

Children from Beit Issie Shapiro and their children show their whleelchair-accessible Purim costumes at the President’s Residence. March 12 , 2025

Israel’s First Lady Michal Herzog hosted the delegation, with President Isaac Herzog making an unscheduled appearance as well.

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The pre-Purim event celebrated the tenth anniversary of the organization’s “Dream Costumes” initiative, which incorporated each child’s mobility device as a key part of an original Purim costume created by designers from the Holon Institute of Technology (HIT) and from WIX.


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Hana Levi Julian is a Middle East news analyst with a degree in Mass Communication and Journalism from Southern Connecticut State University. A past columnist with The Jewish Press and senior editor at Arutz 7, Ms. Julian has written for Babble.com, Chabad.org and other media outlets, in addition to her years working in broadcast journalism.