Blessing Israel Together

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...

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!

With Purim three-day holiday beginning March 2, Israel Relief Aid is going back to the Ben Shemen Youth Village to help sponsor a Purim party to bring joy to 400 teenage placed kids/orphans.  Why does the youth village need help for something as important as a holiday celebration?  It turns out that while the government does cover basic needs like daily meals, such daily meals are not holiday-oriented. So, when a holiday comes, they have no budget for that. Israel Relief Aid is so excited to make sure these kids aren’t left out of a holiday that the whole country will celebrate.   With your help, there will be a celebration.  Help us spread the joy to these young people that they are cared about and loved.   DONATE TODAY...

Israel Relief Aid’s extensive aid center network throughout Israel gives out clothing and other goods to the needy—those living under the poverty line that don’t have funds for growing children and other sectors like the unemployed, Holocaust Survivors, single-parent families, new immigrants who arrived with very little, etc.

Hunger and homelessness often go hand in hand, and homeless individuals deserve meals just like everyone else. In Israel, thousands of people are homeless. READ MORE

  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.

With your help, families in Jerusalem living below the poverty line were provided with a blessing of food.   Your support has blessed the lives of these that are struggling to meet their basic needs. READ MORE...

Every day, we hear from struggling families in Israel who are unable to put food on their tables. When they are homeless, it is even more dire. READ MORE

Thanks to your support, Israel Relief Aid brought food to Sderot, a town near the Gaza Strip. We could feel the excitement of each delivery. It was like a bag of joy had arrived at each doorstep, waiting to be explored. READ MORE...

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...

The Sderot food bag project is in full swing.  Israel Relief Aid is on the ground in Israel, and our network center in Sderot is packing bags.

Thanks to YOU, we provided food for the entire High Holidays and immediate needs in 2 emergency shelters: Women and Children’s Shelter – for those fleeing domestic violence or trafficking or placed there by the State welfare system for safety. READ MORE

  Haifa Immigrant Project  Your generosity also supported Israel Relief Aid’s project in Haifa, where food bags were distributed to immigrant families living below the poverty line.   READ MORE

Thanks to you , Israel Relief Aid ’s project in Haifa to provide food bags to immigrant families living below the poverty line successfully reached many recipients.

  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

  48 abductees  remain held by Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip for 23 months. Around half are believed to be alive. Gaza Strip border towns  – occasional bombings targeting Israel. Lebanon  – Israeli forces routing out Hezbollah attempts in the border zone. Israel territories  – dismantling terrorist networks. Houthis (Yemen)  – random bombing attacks on Israel. READ MORE

  I n the south of Israel, there are two shelters for Israelis.  O ne is a refuge for Israeli women and children who have been battered/abused .

  35th emergency container of bedding shipped from the UK. 36th container of shoes, toothbrushes, and clothing being prepared in the Netherlands. 37th container of aid now planned in the UK. READ MORE

There remain  50 abductees  held by Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip for 22 months, of which around half are believed to be alive.  –Gaza Strip bordertowns – occasionally bombing Israel  –Lebanon – routing out Hezbollah attempts in Israel border zone –Israel territories– tearing down terror webs  READ MORE

Over the past five years, Haifa has consistently ranked among the top cities in Israel for absorbing new immigrants and today, over 10% of the city are immigrants. In the last decade, over 35,000 immigrants chose to reside in Haifa. READ MORE