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A New Year's Message from the CEO

 

As 2025 comes to an end and you get ready to welcome the New Year, I want to take a moment to express my excitement and gratitude for the partnership with Israel Relief Aid that each of you has embraced.

Last week, a score of aid institutions assembled together in Haifa and Ashdod to receive aid from a container from the UK, thanking us profusely for the stock that would keep their aid centers open and distributing.

After being bombed this year by terrorist organizations all around, Israel’s ceasefire has finally allowed us to sleep through the night.  However, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and reservists (and their families) are still putting their efforts on the line to save this Holy Land on several fronts – Gaza, Lebanon, eastern territories, Syria, etc.

As always, Israel Relief Aid stayed true to our promises to you in 2025 not to waste donor funds on a warehouse, trucks, shelving, warehouse workers/insurance/security, and not to pay tens of thousands of dollars in rent on an expensive office/car/etc. and to put donor ethics first.


By doing so, we were able to bring in hundreds of thousands of dollars of aid to Israel and hold 35 aid events this past year, each in different cities in Israel.  We have positively impacted the lives of soldiers, Holocaust Survivors, single parents, the disabled, widows, orphans, new immigrants to Israel, disadvantaged families, the impoverished Ethiopian community, the homeless, and others.  This meaningful work is a source of great joy, and this joy belongs to you!

Israel Relief Aid is committed to transparency -- please check our website “Activities”button to find a record of reports of aid that we have been distributing . . . because of your partnership!

Take a look at our 2025 ANNUAL REPORT.  It's a fun and easy read to see what all of YOU made possible

In the meantime, we wish you a joyful, peaceful, healthy, and Happy New Year! 

Warm regards,

Jo Kaplan and Israel Relief Aid Team

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