




Israel:The JBI Low Vision Clinic at the Sourasky Medical Center in Tel Aviv (formerly Ichilov Hospital) treats severely visually impaired children and adults with state-of-the-art, customized optometric devices. The JBI Low Vision Clinic also offers a special Mobile Screening Service to reach the homebound elderly who cannot come to the clinic for diagnosis and treatment. JBI also has a relationship with the The Central Library for Blind and Reading Impaired People, based in Tel Aviv, who can be found here.
Russia, Ukraine, and Central and Eastern Europe: The JBI Library serves blind and visually impaired people in Central and Eastern Europe, with its collection of Talking Books in Russian, Hungarian and Romanian. A catalog in Cyrillic is easily accessed on the web. JBI also distributes books to Russian speakers in the United States, Israel and Germany. In addition to Talking Books, JBI offers a special audio magazine in Russian (The Russian Voice), a Large Print Hebrew/Russian Haggadah and the Russian children's audio library of Jewish interest for the blind and visually impaired.
Latin America: JBI has a library of Jewish interest materials in Spanish to serve the needs of visually impaired and reading disabled Spanish-speaking Jews in the US, Israel, Latin America and around the world.