Magen David Adom
Magen David Adom is Israel’s “Red Cross”. It has activated all 1,400 of its ambulances and is treating the wounded, often while under rocket attack and gunfire themselves. MDA EMTs are among the casualties. Your help is desperately needed to put more ambulances on the road and to replenish supplies for both EMTs and paramedics and for MDA’s blood services division, which is supplying blood for the wounded.
DONATE AT THIS LINK: https://afmda.org/
World Union for Progressive Judaism Emergency Appeal
Reconstructing Judaism is a member movement of the WUPJ. Their emergency appeal is focusing on providing funds for immediate needs, informal educational programs and childcare, elderly assistance, mental health counseling, and more.
DONATE AT THIS LINK: https://wupj.org/emergency-appeal-to-help-israeli-victims-of-terror/
New Israel Fund
NIF’s network of NGOs in Israel have a 4-part emergency response plan they’ve activated, and they are asking for donations at this time to implement it. The plan focuses on:
Basic care for the most vulnerable groups: While the country reels from this attack, we must make sure that no communities are left behind. Families in the kibbutzim near the Gaza Border are still not reunited and may not have the access to care that they need. A number of Bedouin citizens from unrecognized villages in the South have been killed and many more injured. With very little infrastructure – including very few bomb shelters—and decades of neglect by consecutive governments, this community needs urgent support to ensure that basic care is available for those injured, left homeless, and for those needing arrangements for the dead. These are just examples of two vulnerable groups that need our help right now.
Combating violent speech and incitement online: Ever since news of the attack first broke, right-wing extremists have been calling for revenge and attempting to escalate an already dangerous episode by inciting hatred and fomenting violence in mixed Arab-Jewish cities and towns throughout the country. Learning from past experiences, we know how quickly and easily these kinds of inciting messages can spread and lead to conflicts and conflagrations on the ground. We need to help de escalate, de-platform and disempower these voices online.
Preventing inter-communal violence in mixed cities: Through focused efforts with municipalities, the media, and local grassroots leaders, we have to work to prevent the spread of violence into mixed Arab and Jewish cities.
Mental health and trauma counseling: We know that yesterday was among the most terrifying and traumatizing days for Israelis in recent memory. People are shocked and reeling and we know that when that shock begins to fade, there will be a massive need for trauma counseling and mental health support for many, including civil society leaders, who will need to show up for their communities and lead long term efforts even as they deal with their own trauma.
DONATE AT THIS LINK: https://www.nif.org/nifs-emergency-response-plan/
Dror Israel Emergency Response
“Our educators in Sderot, Ashkelon, Beer Sheva, Rehovot, Tel Aviv, Rishon Letzion, and other affected communities are assessing all the critical needs and addressing them. Educators are in touch with students, program participants, neighborhood leaders and groups, making sure they are safe and accounted for. Emergency initiatives include:
Supporting evacuees: Day care and programs for traumatized children and youth are desparately needed for families who have been evacuated from Gaza border communities under attack to Dead Sea Hotels, our boarding school in Mitzpe Ramon, and more.
Youth counselors in bomb shelters: In underprivileged communities where people don’t have safe rooms in their homes, our experienced youth educators are running therapeutic and educational programs for children and families in Rehovot and Ashkelon, with more locations opening as soon as deemed safe.
Day care for children of hospital workers and other essential staff:
We are currently fielding requests from hospitals throughout Israel to set up day care centers for children of doctors, nurses, and staff so they can treat the injured while schools are closed.
Support for children and families sheltering in place: We are
providing in-person and online programming, distributing activity kits and other educational materials in Sderot, Ashkelon, Rehovot, and more.
DONATE AT THIS LINK: https://www.drorisrael.org/donate
Thank Israeli Soldiers
Help to provide thousands of emergency kits featuring daily critical essentials that our soldiers and reservists need during times of war
DONATE AT THIS LINK: https://thankisraelisoldiers.org/
Sheba Medical Center
Israel’s largest medical facility, Sheba Medical Center, is on the front lines of the country’s response to this war. Caring for over 200 Israelis critically wounded in the attacks, tripling ICU beds and performing countless life-saving surgeries. Treating dozens of soldiers, including many in intensive care. Organizing a pop-up blood bank enabling thousands of Israelis to donate blood to victims.
Moving Pediatric and Cardiac ICU into a hardened underground parking garage.
Creating a trauma center for the 2200 survivors of the music festival. As Israel’s largest hospital, the responsibility Sheba bears is immense.There is an urgent need for blood donation equipment, ventilators, ICU monitors and more.
DONATE AT THIS LINK: https://give.afsmc.org/give/525518/#!/donation/checkout
Yad Meshoham
Paired with the law firm Greenberg Traurig – this organization is handson buying (wholesale) and has 70 trucks at its disposal to deliver to army bases.
DONATE AT THIS LINK: https://www.jgive.com/new/en/usd/donation-targets/110152/about
United Hatazalah
1700 on-the-ground volunteers providing care for the injured (some have lost thier lives. Need supplies!
DONATE AT THIS LINK: https://israelrescue.org/donate/ZAKA
Saving lives and Taking the dead for honorable burial.
DONATE AT THIS LINK: https://give.zakaworld.org/campaign/protection-kits-2023-support-zaka-search-and-rescue/
ISRAEL FRIENDS
Sending tactical supplies to Israel.
DONATE AT THIS LINK: https://www.israelfriends.us/legacyfund
STAND WITH US
Fighting Anti-Semitism worldwide!! Spending more than they have. Reaching over 2 million people.
DONATE AT THIS LINK: https://www.standwithus.com/israel-emergency-fund
MYISRAEL
Funding beds and wheelchairs for 3 new wards of a rehabilitation hospital just south of Tel Aviv to house trauma patients and help them with their emotional and physical rehabilitation. Funding for laptops for children in Ashkelon so that they can attend online school. Supporting Kibbutz Alumim which was infiltrated on 7th October to fund new security equipment and vehicles, a classroom, shelters and new sports facilities. Also funding therapeutic treatment for traumatised children from the South.
DONATE AT THIS LINK: https://www.myisraelcharity.org.il/donate-to-charity?id=f2695944-fbb2-4866-b45df56c6fb3f095&name=EMERGENCY+RESPONSE+TO+THE+WAR+IN+ISRAEL
COOKING TOGETHER
FOODY, a leading Israeli food television channel in cooperation with Kibbutz Be’eri Print produced a cookbook entitled “Cooking Together,” from the private kitchens of farmers of the “Gaza Envelope,” (Otef A’za in Hebrew). The attached link describes the process used to produce the Hebrew version of “Cooking Together.” https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0IZa_obE17s The book is printed by Be’eri Print, the principal revenue source for the kibbutz, employing hundreds of residents of Southern Israel hailing from Sderot, Netivot and Ofakim.
The 72 page cookbook pays homage to produce grown in the Western Negev region. Each book comes with a postcard with a prayer for the safe return of the hostages and abductees and a prayer for the wellbeing of IDF soldiers. This campaign, now being launched in North America, started with the Hebrew cookbook which to date sold over 100,000 copies.
Sold for $19.90USD (including free shipping within North America), nearly 50% of the proceeds from “Cooking Together” are passed on to Kibbutz Be’eri, both to their printing business and the Kibbutz Be’eri Foundation, where monies are aimed at rehabilitating the agricultural sector.
This link can be used for individual sales. A minimum order is 5 books.