In the summer of 1981, the World Congress of the Jewish Deaf people was held at the International Convention Center (Jerusalem), where Deaf Jews from the world arrived. The congress lasted four days, during which Edna Cohen collected Deaf people to a new association which was called "Keshev: The hard-of-hearing people in Israel"."Keshev" is Awareness in Hebrew. Keshev is also an abbreviation of "Kivdei Shmiaa BeIsrael": Hard of hearing in Israel. Every deaf person who could talk fluently, joined.
