Blessing Israel Together

For Holocaust Survivors living under the poverty line, sometimes their living environment is going downhill.  Help with problems or lack of items in the apartment would be a huge blessing to their everyday life.

Recently we have provided groceries and encouragement to a woman facing overwhelming hardship . . . and ministry among senior citizens that we have had the privilege to serve.    READ MORE

  Almost one out of every four Israeli families is living below the poverty line, so paying basic living costs is too hard:  rent, property tax, utilities, dues, food, Let alone school books and supplies for the coming school year for one or more children. READ MORE

  How many people benefit from a 40-foot aid container? This container benefited around 10,000 people! Read more

  Thanks to all of you, we were able to bring groceries to many low-income families with children battling cancer,  What a joy to give many of these children this help in their treatment! Read more

If you have a heart for Israel and for young Israelis with disabilities, the Ben Shemen Day Center is a great project to work on. It looks like a rural kibbutz, but is right in central Israel not far from Ben Gurion Airport.  Read more...

The biggest killer of children in Israel is cancer. Some 500 Israeli children are diagnosed with cancer each year. One in every 330 youths develops cancer before 20. Read more...

The spirits of offense and resentment are two that can easily take root in ground that has already been established with the spirit of insecurity. All seemingly little foxes that can wreak enormous damage to our spiritual walk and witness. Eradicate and obliterate these invasives thru taking a deep-diving personal inventory followed by confession, renouncing, binding up and casting out in Yeshua's Name! How can you say, 'Brother, let me remove the speck that is in your eye', when you yourself do not see the plank that is in your own eye?" Luke 6:42

A Monday morning, rushing to get to our respective jobs or, for the "retired", first focus is comfort and enjoyment possibly our gardens or a leisurely breakfast. Some folks are sitting down to their computers and turning on their AI programs and making cute videos. What horrendous madness this world is! None of these is taking up our cross and bearing it daily. Under no circumstances are we called to retire nor make our careers our focus. We don't have the leisurely time to invest in making cute social media posts. If we truly thought about what Yeshua/Jesus did for us, we would be appalled at our behavior... none of us excluded. We have much work to do on His behalf. So many lost. So many walking in utter spiritual blindness, including the body of believers. The simplest act of starting the day with nothing but having a conversation with the One who sacrificed everything for us is the least we can do. Spend time at the start of the day confessing that we have not put ...

As Israel turns 78, we observe Yom HaZikaron (Heroes Memorial Day) and Yom HaAtzmaut (Israel's Independence Day) to honor those lost in the fight for freedom and to celebrate the independence they secured. 

We spend our days, sunrise to sundown, focused on all that we have, all that we do, all those we love, all things we want.  And what if we had none of those things? Would we become angry at G-D?  Job's experience could happen to any of us at any time.  Holding fast to all that we think we have here, and making it a daily priority, makes it clear that we do not put our love for our Creator first.  He wants the best of our offerings, yet we give Him our attention after we've attended to everything else (see Malachi 1). What if everything we had was completely stripped from us? What if our homes, our closet full of clothes and shoes, all of our family members, our careers, our health, literally everything was gone...what then? Choose this day who you will serve. Choose wisely. Store up your riches in heaven. Everything here will pass away.

You made it possible! Israel Relief Aid collected crucial funds allowing Israelis in poverty (especially Holocaust Survivors, Lone Mothers (husband gone on reserve duty) and disabled) could partake in the Passover holiday... Read more

Northern Israel has been getting bombed all month long.  Many,  many parents, elderly and families had to live next to the bomb shelter.  READ MORE

Passover is April 1! Along with the necessary pre-cleaning for the holiday, most of the food for the entire holiday is purchased in advance. Yet this is not the case for Israelis living in poverty. READ MORE 

Thank you all who participated in giving 407 youth in Ben Shemen a party at the youth village.  

The population in Israel has had 6 days of pre-alerts and sirens (two super-loud pre-alerts and one very very loud siren for each directive to enter the bomb shelter).   The pre-alert gives enough time for a few minutes' preparation before the siren.  Once the siren sounds, there's not enough time to do anything but grab the cell phone and get into the bomb shelter and secure the door. It's stressful and tiring, especially in the middle of the night, yet we know it's saving lives.    Home Front Command has lightened up a little on the Red-level restrictions and brought it down to Orange level, meaning that businesses can open and 50-person gatherings can be held IF they have a bomb shelter reachable in the prescribed defense time for everyone on premises (can be anywhere from 15 seconds to 1.5 minutes, depending on the city's location).   However, traveling to get to that business means taking a risk without cover.  S...

With threats of annihilation by an Iranian nuclear bomb, Israel has risen up to take out Iran’s capability to do so, in self-defense.  With the government having to commit to stop what’s happening there, Israel’s budget is obliterated.  This leaves huge gaps in helping homeless and displaced Israelis, new immigrants, Holocaust Survivors, disabled, unemployed, single-parent families, etc.  Your emergency gift will provide assistance RIGHT NOW in a multitude of areas to help Israel’s 25-30% poverty rate: with food, clothing, household goods, etc.  Your prayerful support is also needed! TO DONATE TODAY CLICK HERE

Israeli winters are filled with volatile fluctuations in temperature. One day requires a parka, and the next day one can dress in a long-sleeve T-shirt, followed by the need for a raincoat the day after. Heavy clothing is essential. The north, including the Galilee, has considerably the most rain. Mountainous areas like Jerusalem also experience more severe weather. Israel Relief Aid’s Winter Warm Campaign is dependent on importing aid containers full of clothing, which is sorted by season by aid centers all over Israel. The winter coats and heavy clothing are distributed from September 1 already in the north, through the end of March – seven months each year! Cartons of jackets are always received with appreciation from the aid containers. Thanks to you, each container is able be shipped and cleared through the Israeli port, with shipping costs and clearing costs paid. Our donors make a huge impact on the ground in the Holy Land, blessing tens of thousands of Israelis every winter...

An incredible aid container of shoes and clothing came in recently for the near-30% of Israelis in poverty. The shoes in this container were high quality and too expensive for Israelis in need to buy. Yet, they are the exact type of shoes that are needed in various conditions and weather here in this country. These shoes and clothing went out to the whole country– from near the border with Lebanon, down to Beer Sheva in the Negev. This was such an important gift for the nation of Israel, which is trying to heal after the stress of having to defend ourselves. This gift tells them that there are those that do care. Thank you again for this huge blessing!

Thanks to our friends participating in our January Holocaust Survivors’ event, the Lod Senior Center cooking/baking club is now in preparation to begin.   You can see some of the center’s members in the picture during Jo Kaplan’s visit to hand over a check of the donations raised. With these funds they are planning on purchasing the following types of items: hand mixers cutting boards a small gas stove a food processor bowls, rolling pins, strainers mixing spoons, spatulas, ladles, tongs, etc. peelers, whisks, measuring cups/spoons, etc. cooking mitts and aprons A cookbook is being created of all the recipes that they remembered.  Such memories this will bring back for them. Thank you for making this cooking/baking club possible!  What a blessing for these Holocaust Survivors!