Most access technology that blind Americans rely on for work, school, and independent living costs between $1,000 and $6,000 — and no insurance plan covers it. The ATAA (H.R. 1529 / S. 1918) would put a $2,000 refundable tax credit toward closing that gap. Sign below, and when you go on to buy the paperback or ebook, 10% of the sale supports this campaign.
Robbie Michaelson was born in Canada to a father who had fled Nazi Germany and lost most of his family in the Shoah. Deeply shaped by that legacy and inspired by James Michener’s The Source, Michaelson became a committed Zionist at a young age. He first journeyed to Israel as a 19-year-old volunteer immediately after the 1967 Six Day War, and later made Aliyah in 1972—arriving at Ben Gurion Airport on the same day the bodies of the murdered Israeli athletes returned from the Munich Olympics.
He lived through the Yom Kippur War and served in the IDF as a tank driver on the front lines in the Sinai Desert. Michaelson went on to earn a Master’s degree in International Relations from McGill University in 1975. From 1990 to 1993, he reported on Jewish affairs in Germany and across Europe for the *Western Jewish Bulletin*, offering a unique perspective shaped by history, memory, and firsthand experience.
His deep engagement with Israeli society, politics, and the Jewish diaspora informs his most recent work, *The Broken Covenant: Netanyahu and Israeli Democracy*, a timely exploration of political leadership, national identity, and the fragile state of democratic values in Israel today.
Robbie explained a side of Israeli politics I was unfamiliar with and needs to be told. You will be shocked at the details in his book and see the urgency the country faces.
— Brian D.
I am retired and almost totally blind. I have always worked or looked for employment as I believe in working and contributing to society. 61 per cent of employable blind people in this country are unemployed or have part time jobs which do not pay enough to survive. There are different reasons for the high unemployment of blind people. One of those reasons is the high cost of adaptive equipment/software, needed to secure and retain employment.
— Marianne Haas
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