Israel Relief Aid CEO Update April 2025

 

Thanks to all of you, helping with last month's Purim party ensured the festivities would take place. The Ben Shemen Youth Village was thrilled to have the help of Israel Relief Aid, as the government does not supply funds for holiday foods. READ MORE. . .

Israel Relief Aid: New Update from CEO

Pictures from Katzrin in the north of Israel, supplying warm jackets for the winter super cold here in the Holy Land.  Holocaust Survivors, pensioners, widows that live on a stipend most of them. READ MORE

Recap from Sderot Aid Center

 

The Sderot Aid Center started 2025 with a year and three-month-old war. During the war, out of 28,000 Sderot residents, the city was reduced to 3,000 residents who refused to yield to terrorism and leave their homes. Residents were leaving in fear of what had just happened. Most left with only what they had on or could put in their cars.

Israel Relief Aid: New Update from CEO Jo Kaplan

 

The government is discussing whether the evacuees can return to the north starting in March.  Until such a return, the evacuees still need help. READ MORE. . . 

Israel Relief Aid: New Update from CEO Jo Kaplan

 

Emergency Aid Containers Update

–The 21st emergency container is on the water to Israel, carrying new shoes and clothing, loaded in Netherlands READ MORE

Israel Relief Aid: New Update from CEO Jo Kaplan – December 26 2024

 

Israel Relief Aid continues to supply aid to evacuee families in Migdal by the Sea of Galilee where they stay in government-subsidized villages. READ MORE...

Israel Relief Aid: New Update from CEO

Before the Lebanon ceasefire began northern Israel was getting bombed all day long.  Many, many single parents, elderly and families had to live next to the bomb shelter.  READ MORE...

A New Aid Center in Jerusalem

Israel Relief Aid is excited to announce a new addition to our aid center network of an Ethiopian-run distribution center in Talpiot, Jerusalem, right on the main street of the commercial center.

Rosh Hashanah…Giving Comfort to Israelis

 

In the south of Israel, there are two shelters for Israelis.  One is a refuge for Israeli women and children who have been battered and abused. READ MORE

Israel Relief Aid: New Update from CEO Jo Kaplan – August 21 2024

Sderot was also one of the cities invaded on Oct 7 by Hamas terrorists.  Unbelievably, at least 3,000 families did not evacuate afterward and remained with their homes.  READ MORE. . . 

Israel Relief Aid Sderot Food Distribution

 

As of Aug 1, the local Sderot Aid Center sees no letup of the war, or the needs associated with it.  

A Food Kitchen in the Desert?

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.

Look at What You Made Possible

 

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

Update from the CEO: Israel Relief Aid Wartime Projects

 

The first week of October, as originally planned, Israel Relief Aid supplied bags of food to those living under the poverty line in the struggling city of Ramle. 

Sukkot Cheer

The Sukkot holiday in Israel . . . what does that mean? Gatherings with family and friends in the sukkah (holiday outdoor booth). Just another reason to have appropriate clothing to wear.

In the north of Israel it gets colder at night much earlier than in the central district. Sitting in the sukkah can be too chilling. What is needed is some Autumn clothing in the dresser.

For new immigrants from Ukraine, there’s not much at all in the dresser, if they even have a dresser. They are in need of this clothing not only for themselves, but for all their children, all their family.

Because of you, Israelis are getting clothed. They are thrilled to get what they need for Sukkot. Thank you!

Israel Relief Aid Give-Away in Haifa

 

A surprise awaited immigrants, poverty families, and welfare roll families in Israel, right as we approach the Rosh HaShanah holiday READ MORE...

Life in Katzrin, Israel

 

Katzrin is located up in the Golan Heights in the north of Israel, above the Sea of Galilee.  Israel Relief Aid’s network does reach up to Katzrin, with the recently opened Katzrin Aid Center.   READ MORE. . . 

Stocking Northern Border Aid Center While Hezbollah Threatens Israel

 

Destroying the border fence, erecting tents at Israel’s northern border and other provocations, Hezbollah continues to threaten Israel . . . so close to the Israeli city of Maalot, where there is a wonderful Israel Relief Aid network aid center. READ MORE...

Two Meaningful Projects

Ukrainian immigrants and refugees in Haifa were invited to receive a large box of food items . . . and the response was pure excitement. READ MORE...

How Big is This Container?

 

This shipping container is filled with new sport shoes and has a hefty value. READ MORE . . .