Helping Sderot Families for Sukkot

 

Sderot (a few minutes from the Gaza border) has been hearing every jet roaring across the sky, random sirens/random bombing from Hamas, still hearing the explosions across the border, their sky smoky – the feeling of war.

The families of Sderot are heroes, holding onto a dangerous part of the Land of Israel.  Since October 7, 2023 READ MORE

Israel Relief Aid CEO Update High Holy Days

 

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

G'mar Chatima Tova

 "This shall be a statute forever for you: in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all... For on that day the priest shall make atonement for you, to cleanse you, that you may be cleanfrom all your sins before the Lord." Lev 16:29-30

G'mar Chatima Tova v' Tzom Kal, to All Our Dear Friends, from the Israel Relief Aid Team - May you be sealed for a good year and have an easy fast.

Haifa Immigrant Project Update

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.

Israel Relief Aid: New Update from CEO Jo Kaplan

 

• 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

Letters from Both the Chairman & CEO at Rosh Hashanah 2025

What is your perspective of hope? It’s an easy question but might not be so easy to find an answer. How can we see hope? We see that love from people, even in little things, give sparkles of hope.

Temporary Dwellings

 

The Beer Sheva shelter provides a refuge for women escaping tough domestic situations and a secure place for them to rebuild their lives. Working in cooperation with an anti-violence group, the shelter provides women with emotional and practical support.

One in every four Israeli families suffers from domestic violence! Some of the women are able to escape abusive situations but then have nowhere to live and no one to help them.  They are set up for failure if they try to stake out on their own. They know they have to start from zero. They must find a place to stay and a job. As a rule, they also need emotional help.

One entrant into the Beer Sheva shelter was L., a girl who was picked up living on the streets of Ashqelon.  She had a traumatic past and now receives therapy.

For the Men

The Beer Sheva shelter also runs a men’s rehabilitation center, and they report: V. is a rehabilitant who came to us from Ashkelon. He immigrated to Israel 20 years ago alone, served in the army, worked, lived quite well, but then his health started deteriorating rapidly.  The doctors were not able to give a diagnosis and this situation cut the ground from under his feet and threw him into a deep depression.

Our friends later found V. lying beside a dumpster on the street. Today he is in our rehab, going through additional medical check-ups, and receiving therapy to get out of the depression.

A recurring need for these shelters is daily food for meals for the homes.  This is where Israel Relief Aid would like to get involved.  The shelters need weekly fresh food like milk, lettuce, cheese, chicken, vegetables, fruits, eggs, potatoes, bread, butter, etc.  If we can give them food for an extended period, they can concentrate on other needs.

 At Sukkot, let’s give them food. 

A Rosh Hashanah Message from the CEO

 

As this Hebrew year 5783 comes to an end, we remember the saying of the Hebrew sages: “The day is short and the work is plentiful...” As you know, Israel Relief Aid is making a difference in the lives of those living under the poverty line in Israel, year after year.