Blessing Israel Together

  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.

For November, we'll be reaching out to families in Jerusalem with assistance.  Lack of food is always a need for the 1000s of families in Jerusalem that are living under the poverty line and especially widows with children. The elderly, including Holocaust Survivors, are a group in dire need, as well. READ MORE...

  There remain 48 abductees held by Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip for 23 months, of which around half are believed to be alive. Gaza Strip border towns – still occasionally bombing Israel Lebanon – routing out Hezbollah attempts in Israel border zone Israel territories – tearing down terror webs Houti’s – bombing Israel randomly from Yemen READ MORE

  Bat Yam is an older community with a lot of Holocaust Survivors, widows, disabled and Ukrainian/Russian immigrants living on small monthly stipends. It’s a great place to do a great mitzvah.

International Holocaust Remembrance Day is January 27 — an ideal day to bless the Holocaust Survivors and elderly with this restoration of their grounds. READ MORE

In the heart of Beer Sheva in Israel’s desert – the Negev – is an aid center and soup kitchen feeding the elderly and Holocaust Survivors on a weekly basis.

Passover begins April 22nd this year.  For the obvious reasons, holidays this year are taking on an unprecedented level of significance. We are a nation at war and in mourning every day since Oct 7th. 

  After the Hamas attack on October 7th, Israel Relief Aid changed its role  from a relief organization into an emergency relief organization.  READ MORE

  Did you want to help Holocaust Survivors and Golden Agers in Israel?   Read more...

The first of three May projects: Food bags for Holocaust Survivors, Ukrainian immigrants and welfare roll families in the north in Tsfat. READ MORE...

  On the Israeli holiday of Shavuot (also called Pentecost (begins May 25 this year ), Israelis will read the book of Ruth: “ wherever you go, I will go; and where you lodge, I will lodge, your people shall be my people ”.  READ MORE . . . 

  Holocaust Memorial Day has come and gone, with all those stories that emanated out of horrific circumstances.  In our times, last year 15,000 Holocaust Survivors passed away. However, today there are 147,199 Holocaust Survivors living in Israel.  READ MORE. . . 

  For Israel Relief Aid’s Passover project, your help made it possible so that Israelis (especially immigrants) in poverty could celebrate the Passover Seder READ MORE. . . 

We have two projects to start 2023 with. Both are wonderful ways to start out the New Year blessing Israel! Project 1: 2023 Winter Warm Campaign In January Israel always is bracing cold and this year is no exception.   Reports of the homeless dying of hypothermia have begun to appear in the newspapers.

  For the April project, Israel Relief Aid collected funds so that Israelis (especially immigrants) in poverty could celebrate the Passover Seder and to eat the required unleavened bread during the week of Pesach.  READ MORE . . . 

  Love is in the air this month!  The following are a few ways we’ve been reaching out in love to Israelis in need, thanks to all of you!  READ MORE. . .

  International Holocaust Remembrance Day is January 27.  We Remember- Jo Kaplan CEO 

  In honor of January 27 International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Israel Relief Aid has fulfilled a request by the Lod Senior Center  (where many Holocaust Survivors come daily as part of their social life, and to get a warm meal, talk in Yiddish to other seniors, use the parlor services, attend the various craft/interest classes, attend parties and functions). READ MORE...

  From Beer Sheva to Jerusalem, aid containers of textiles/clothing (and winter clothing!) have brought warmth to Israel’s needy sectors.  READ MORE. . . 

  Pictures from Beer Sheva in south Israel, Ashdod and Bat Yam on the coast, supplying warm jackets for the super cold winter here in the Holy Land.  Holocaust Survivors, pensioners, widows that live on a stipend most of them READ MORE . . .