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Read these personal stories brought to us by social services professionals around Israel. The names of all applicants have been changed to protect individual privacy. The names of the verifying social worker and agency are real. Photographs are illustrative only.
Mazal is 96. Widowed in Ethiopia, she moved to Israel in 1983 and raised her five children here alone. In the last year, she has suffered from cognitive decline that has affected her physical abilities as well. Unable to care of herself the way she used to, her children have...
Rafi is a young man with severe schizophrenia. He has stopped taking his medication and lives with his mother, who cares for him and supports them. She is only able to scrape by each month. Rafi spends a lot of time in his room, on-line on his desktop computer. When...
Ronit is an 89-year old widow and lives with her grown son and his family. Ronit has a host of health conditions, most significantly hearing loss, making daily tasks difficult. She recently had a hearing test and it was recommended that she purchase two hearing aids. Ronit subsists solely on...
Unable to take the on-going violence and abuse, Aliza moved out of her parents’ home a year ago, when she was 17. Despite not living at home, Aliza continued to defend and support her mother and three younger siblings against her father’s abuse. Aliza has enlisted in the Army and...
The only thing holding Ayelet back from a dramatic salary increase is her lack of a driver’s license. Ayelet. 41, and Eitan, 42, live in a small community in the upper Galilee. Housing costs are low there, but even so, they can only manage a two-bedroom apartment; Ayelet and Eitan...
This past December, Yaffa’s mother died unexpectedly. Yaffa never knew her father and has no siblings. Yaffa, 24, is in her last year of law school. She is doing well, loves her studies, and would very much like to finish her degree. But doing so has suddenly become much more...
Over the past few years, Rivka (27) and Benny (30) have developed a plan to restart their lives on a stronger financial footing. Benny has managed not to gamble for several years and holds a steady job. The couple has been working hard to pay down at least a small...
Moshe, 90, and Rachel, 80, came to Israel from Ethiopia in 2001, with their nine grown children. Although fully committed to living in this country, none of them has been able to build a life outside of the cycle of poverty. Moshe and Rachel rely on their State pensions and...
43-year-old Danny of Dimona has lived the life of hard knocks. He grew up among 10 children with unstable parents and an abusive father. Danny had to earn his keep from a young age and in doing so, fell under the influence of less than reputable company on the streets....
Project ONWARD 2019
for the benefit of women in distress
Project ONWARD is an ongoing fund, created in order to address the needs of Israeli single mothers and young women who are attempting to overcome the challenges of poor housing conditions and inadequate resources and support. Project ONWARD funds basic needs (fridges, beds, ovens and washers), educational and vocational programs and computers that...
Project BOOST 2019
for the benefit of At-Risk Youth
Through our work with social services departments around the country we know how badly at-risk youth need our continuous support. We have therefore established Project BOOST, an ongoing fund, so that together, we can help them. The goals of Project BOOST are: To empower at risk youth to complete schooling...
Project RESPECT 2019
for the benefit of elderly Ethiopians
We’d like you to meet Moran and Dinah! Moran Yosef is the director of the Seniors Center for Elderly Ethiopian Immigrants (Ha’Moadon le’kshishei Yotz’ei Ethiopia) in Hadera and Dinah is the sports director. There are approximately 600 elderly Ethiopians living in Hadera. In our work with the municipal social services department over the...
Recently Funded Personal Stories
Tests have recently shown a decrease in Eitan’s hearing. He sees both an ENT and a speech therapist regularly, but he needs hearing aides. The problem is not new for the family – Eitan’s three-year old brother already has them. Caring for both boys, their four siblings, and their father...
Alma, 38, trained as an early education teacher. She had to stop working to deal with her painful and prolonged divorce, but now she has started again. At the moment, she is a substitute kindergarten teacher, but she is hoping to find a full-time job in the new school year....
Frieda is a single mom with three daughters, ages 12, 8, and 3. She grew up in a home so fraught with abuse that she and her brother were removed from their parents’ custody. She’s suffered through abusive relationships with her daughters’ fathers. Despite difficult beginnings, Frieda is a dedicated...
Lilach (8) is prone to angry outbursts. She has trouble regulating her emotions. Lilach has been working on these issues with a social worker and a psychologist, but everyone has the sense that there is a deeper source of the trouble. Discovering this would allow the people around Lilach (including...
When her husband was sentenced to 12 years in jail, the burden of running the household and caring for their three children fell on Edna’s shoulders. She is doing the very best she can under difficult circumstances. The government does pay her a stipend so that the family can subsist,...
Both Zoe and Asher come from troubled families and were deemed “at risk” as youths. They married young and soon started a family. Asher has been unable to hold a job, but Zoe works as a cashier. Her salary does not cover the family’s expenses (rent, food, water and electricity,...
Although it will add yet another expense to their lives, Ilanit was determined to move her small family from her mother’s crowded home into their own apartment. Ilanit is a devoted mother who works three different cleaning jobs in order to support her three children. Beyond paying for food, housing,...
Zohara’s husband left her after their now three year old was born. She became pregnant again during a recent failed attempt at reconciliation, and is now raising a young son and an infant on her own. Their father pays no child support. Zohara, 41, works full time as a nursery...