
Ofrah: "I Will Never Forget My Christian Friends"
Ofrah is a religious woman who lives with her husband and eight children in the Israeli southern city of Netivot. "Children are a blessing and God has been good to us," smiles Ofrah. "We've done...
Ofrah is a religious woman who lives with her husband and eight children in the Israeli southern city of Netivot. "Children are a blessing and God has been good to us," smiles Ofrah. "We've done...
Avraham is six years old and lives with his mother, grandmother, and five-year-old cousin. Avraham's mother and grandmother arrived in Israel from Ethiopia ten years ago. Three years ago they took...
Through the IMPACT! program, Noy volunteers at the Acharey! ("Follow Me!") organization in the city of Ramle. He manages to devote much of his time to working with the youth in the organization...
When Code Red sirens go off in Israel, signaling that yet another rocket has been launched on civilian areas by terrorists in Gaza, people have a matter of seconds to get to safety in a bomb shelter.
Thanks to friends like you, our Helping Hands Campaign has helped provide impoverished people in Israel with lifesaving essentials. We are truly grateful that so many people stepped forward to...
Leah, a 74-year-old widow who lives in the northern Israel city of Yokneam, was born in Morocco. Leah, her late husband and their five children came to Israel in 1963. "My husband, who died 10...
Natalia was seventeen years old when her family escaped the former Soviet Union for the refuge of Israel. Now a widow with four children of her own, a serious heart condition has her turning to...
Anuk is a teenager from Ethiopia who arrived in Israel five years ago as an orphan. Anuk's parents died when he was younger, and he was sent to an abusive foster home. Out of fear for his life, he...
After spending his whole life helping others stay connected through his job at the post office, Zakin, 93, is now isolated by health problems that require him to use a wheelchair to get around. The...
Yehudah lives in Jerusalem with his wife and six children, who are all under the age of 10. He works as a scribe copying holy texts by hand — just as was done in biblical times.
David and his wife live with their six children in a three-room public housing apartment. Last year they lost their 16-year-old son to leukemia, even though they spent all their money trying to...
Imagine needing assistance so badly that the gift of a winter blanket brings you to grateful tears. That's what happened when Yael visited 88-year-old Maria to deliver a warm blanket and other...
Tragically, thousands of elderly, impoverished Israelis – many of whom survived the Holocaust – now suffer the terrible indignity and deprivation of going hungry.
The statistics are staggering: Poverty impacts nearly one in three children in Israel. Thousands of elderly Jews in the former Soviet Union (FSU) must make an impossible choice: pay for their...
With continued rocket fire from Gaza endangering much of southern Israel, Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein made an emergency trip to the region to express The Fellowship's support and solidarity and...