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Israel Relief Fundraiser

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Israel Relief Fundraiser
Friends and family,

As you all know, Ben’s sister, Hannah, has lived in Israel since making Aliyah in 2016. During her time in Israel, she’s created a vibrant community of friends and served in the IDF as a lone soldier, which is a soldier with no family living in Israel. She’s currently in her last semester of university to earn a degree in interior design.

Last Saturday, Hannah was planning to attend a music festival with a group of friends, but decided to skip it at the last minute. This music festival was one of the targets Hamas attacked as they began to invade Israel. It is estimated that 260 people, almost exclusively young people, were murdered at this festival. Among the dead are several of Hannah’s friends. One friend of hers is on video being abducted by Hamas and several others are still unaccounted for.

Hannah has been called up from the IDF reserves, along with 360,000 other Israelis, to defend their country.

We feel that it is our responsibility to do everything we can to support the Israeli people from afar and are hoping for your support. In honor of Hannah, her friends, and all other victims of this tragedy, we’ve created a GoFundMe to maximize the impact our collective donations can make.

All donations will be split evenly between four organizations that are already hard at work helping the Israeli population begin to recover from the horror that has taken place. If you prefer to donate to these organizations directly for tax purposes, please feel free to do so via the website links we’ve included here, along with a brief description of each organization. If you’re interested in learning more, additional information about each organization can be found on the linked websites.

American Friends of NATAL: Israel Trauma and Resiliency Center:
NATAL: Israel Trauma and Resiliency Center is an apolitical, internationally recognized and award-winning non-profit organization. Since 1998, NATAL has been providing vital assistance and training to over 400,000 individuals and professionals, helping them cope with traumatic events and everyday stress-related effects. NATAL’s reach includes veterans, law enforcement personnel, educators, first responders, community and business leaders, families, and faith leaders.
American Friends of NATAL’s (AFN) mission is to support and strengthen NATAL’s important work, providing vital assistance to Israelis suffering from trauma primarily due to terrorism and war, and ensuring the vital health and well-being of Israel for now and for the future.

Magen David Adom:
As a fully-fledged member of the International Red Cross / Red Crescent, Magen David Adom serves as the Israeli Red Cross organization. MDA operates as a "national Red Cross Society" of the State of Israel and is committed to the principles of the Geneva Convention and other international humanitarian conventions.
MDA adheres to international humanitarian law designed to ensure the basic rights of the needy and to aid and protect human dignity. Magen David Adom provides treatment to any individual who needs help – regardless of ethnicity, race, or political or religious affiliation.
MDA adheres to international humanitarian law designed to ensure the basic rights of the needy and to aid and protect human dignity. As such, MDA adheres to the laws of the State of Israel and in particular, those relating to provision of medical services.
In this spirit, MDA will strive to alleviate human suffering wherever it is found and to protect the lives and health of every individual. For this purpose MDA will provide, among other things, medical aid services and the supply of blood and blood products.

Brothers for Life:
Brothers for Life is a non-profit organization, created and run by injured Israeli veterans, which gives critical and immediate help to other injured Israeli combat veterans.

Brothers for Life Emergency Fund Campaign: Brothers for Life are already beginning to deploy to hospitals all over the South of Israel, providing support and mentorship to the over 1,500 soldiers and civilians injured in yesterday’s attack. Our help and assistance will vary for each wounded soldier, from medical and educational support to full rehab, the latter of which costs more than $6,000 per soldier per year, so we need your help.

American Friends of Meir Panim:
American Friends of Meir Panim (AFMP), a non-profit organization in support of Israel, was established to promote, support and further activities which are committed to providing both immediate and long-term relief to the impoverished via a dynamic range of food and social service programs, all aimed at helping the needy with dignity and respect.
The Meir Panim Emergency Fund will support:
1. Supporting 
our Soldiers - In Dimona, Or Akiva, Tiberias, and Tzfat we are collecting essentials for soldiers. These include; food, meals, snacks, toiletries, ranging from toothbrushes to deodorant, sleeping bags, sweaters, and more.
2. Food for Families and 
Holocaust Survivors - As people are trapped in their homes, food and meals are being collected and prepared for families and Holocaust Survivors in need, especially Israel’s most vulnerable and homebound.
3. Sderot 
Community Center - Meir Panim’s center in Sderot offers a safe space, therapeutic activities, and community building opportunities to the city’s at-risk youth and seniors who have been through so much trauma.

Please consider making a donation if you’re able to. We also ask you to share this fundraiser widely within your communities. Receipts of each donation will be shared on the GoFundMe site immediately after the donations have been made. Additionally, we will post any updates that we receive from the organizations the donations are made to. Thank you for your consideration.

עם ישראל חי

With love,
Ben and Allie

Donations 

  • Beth Kahrnoff
    • $250
    • 1 yr
  • Robert and Sandra Lichtenstein
    • $200
    • 1 yr
  • Melissa Houck
    • $20
    • 1 yr
  • McKenzie Bryant
    • $50
    • 1 yr
  • Anonymous
    • $36
    • 1 yr

Organizer

Benjamin Yarow
Organizer
Washington D.C., DC

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