Donations

• OU Israel Emergency Fund
   
• Israel Magen David Adom (National First Aid Services)
   
• Jewish National Fund - Operation Security Blanket
  Operation Security Blanket: You can do something today to help Israeli families under attack. You can help by sending your donation to JNF Operation Security Blanket. Your support will enable a child who is sleeping in a bomb shelter to attend weekly summer camp out of range of rocket fire. Help JNF purchase emergency response vehicles/fire trucks, bulletproof vests, and helmets for firefighters and emergency response personnel. JNF built the security roads in northern Israel that allow families to travel safely to work and school. Now, help us build security roads by the Gaza border.
   
• Yad Sarah
  Israel’s primary supplier of medical equipment to anyone needing it.
   
• Ezer Metzion
  One of Israel’s primary medical assistance and social help organizations
   
  Local address
      Ezer-Mizion
      1281 49th Street
      Brooklyn, NY 11219
      U.S.A.
      Tel: (718) 853 8400
      Fax: (718) 437 4683
      e-mail: ezermizion@aol.com
      Tax ID Number: 13-3660421
    
• Technion
  In light of the critical security situation in northern Israel in general, and at the Technion in particular you may want to know of this much needed Emergency Fund for which funding is required immediately for Technion Students project. Immediate help is needed to fund a hotline to support students who are experiencing severe anxiety and stress. It is vital to establish a discretionary fund to provide quick and direct financial support to students who have special emergency needs or whose jobs have disappeared because of the security situation. (For example, places of entertainment have been closed, which is financially disastrous for students supporting themselves as waiters, dishwashers, etc., and students with children are forced to stay home because of the sudden lack of daycare.) New immigrant students are particularly hard hit, as are students from poor socio-economic backgrounds, whose families have also been financially battered by the security crisis. A committee will be established to evaluate cases on an individual basis and provide the funds necessary for these students' basic needs.
   

Hosting and feeding displaced families:

• Lema'an Achai
      US Tax Deductible Donations:
      Checks payable to: "US Friends of Lema'an Achai"
      Memo line - "Refugee Relief"
      PO Box 532, Oceanside, NY 11572-0532
   
• Efrat Foundation
  "Ezra LaTzafon" (Assistance to the North) project, and sent to:
      Efrat Development Foundation USA
      c/o Mr. Joe Katz,
      Meltzer, Lippe, Goldstein & Breitstone, LLP,
      190 Willis Ave, Mineola, NY 10501,
  
  The humanitarian crisis caused by Hizbollah's war against northern Israel is escalating. Thousands of refugees from the north have been taken in by families and communities in the "safe" areas of the country. Families in Beit Shemesh, Jerusalem and Gush Etzion have opened their homes, but the financial and practical needs are overwhelming. The refugees from the north have no income, and the families who have taken them in get no government support for the extra mouths they are feeding. Everyone is stretched to the breaking point. Those who have stayed in the north--generally the elderly, new immigrants, the disabled and larger families--have spent 13 days and nights in the bomb shelters. They rely on volunteers to deliver food and other sanitary necessities. All the organizations dealing with the humanitarian crisis are stretched beyond the imagination.
   
• Hazon Yeshaya Soup Kitchens
  A donation today - even if it is only $10, that can buy lunch for an entire family under attack today!
   
• Kibbutz Lavi
  Kibbutz Lavi has offered to make discount meals for Shabbat available for families who have been displaced from their homes or who need assistance. Cost is only 25 NIS (a little less 6 dollars), for a four-course meal. Purchasing these meals will be the difference between having a family eat cold canned food or having a real Shabbat meal. If you want to donate please call Kibbutz Lavi at Tel 011-972-4-679-9450 and let them know how many meals you are willing to donate. Credit cards are accepted.
   
• A Package from Home
  For online donations, please visit, www.ziv.org and click on the "Donate Now" button. Follow the instructions and indicate "A Package from Home in the special memo box.
  
  With your support, has been able to send over 90,000 packages to Israeli Chayelim Bodedim (soldiers without families in Israel) and other combat soldiers. Included in these packages were anti-fungal stockings, underwear, T-shirt, toothbrush, toothpaste, assorted candies and savories, creature comforts (medicated hand lotions, soap, foot powder, deodorant, shampoo, batteries, etc) and letters, expressing their support, written by children and adults from all over the world. 
   
• American Friends of Tsfat, Inc.
  Or send checks to:
      American Friends of Tsfat
      20 Dawson Ave.
      West Orange, NJ 07052
  
  Help finance summer camps for kids from Tsfat that will take place in the Tel Aviv area and possibly Mitzpe Rimon. Quite a few families have left the City to go South for the next few days. There have been a lot of problems keeping kids calm under the circumstances.
   
• Table-to-Table
  Following the escalation of tensions on Israel's borders, Table to Table will be distributing gift packages to soldiers defending our northern and southern borders. Table to Table: "is an organization that focuses on rescuing food and distributing to amutot that serve individuals in need, it is important to Table to Table, during these difficult days, to express support for our soldiers, who are forced to protect us. I call upon all the citizens of Israel to show their support for soldiers in a tangible way, as they defend our nation during this very difficult time."
    
   

Israeli Products

Buy Israeli products in grocery stores, Judaic shops, buy clothing and housewares made in Israel

• www.israelexport.org
  
    

Miscellaneous

• Terror Victims:
   www.onefamilyfund.org
   
• Letter to Soldier:
   lettertosoldier@jazo.org.il
   

  Israeli Soldiers     Jewish Agency for Israel:     Letter to Soldier     POB 92     Jerusalem, ISRAEL 91000

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  633 Third Avenue New York, NY 10017 Fax: 972-2-621-6133/6214

   

• American Chayal - Elie Deutsch
  Ellie Deutsch a singer from Beit Shemesh now serving in a Hesder unit in Lebanon has recorded an album that can be downloaded. The proceeds will help support these refugees.
   
• Send a chocolate hug
  Send a personal message of support and a chocolate bar to an Israeli soldier for free (courtesy of Elite and the Heritage Affinity Services credit card).
   
• Friends of Efrat
  C.R.I.B.- Israel's Committee for the Rescue Israel's Babies
  The Efrat organization saves the lives of over 1,500 Jewish children every year by providing support to pregnant women in distress in Israel! Efrat is in its 30th year, has helped some 20,000 women thus far and has a low over-head.
  

  C.R.I.B.-Efrat     333 West 86th Street,#1003     New York,NY 10024, USA     1-800-273-4314

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  EFRAT 1450 - East 5th Street Brooklyn, NY, 11230