New Israel Fund – Emergency 2006

Donations online : www.nif.org
Donation address: New Israel Fund (Liberal Judaism Appeal), 26 Enford Street, London W1H 1DW

New Israel Fund is giving emergency financial assistance to grantees. Examples:

• Israel Religious Action Centre (IRAC) has bussed dozens of northern residents to the centre of the country where members of Reform communities are hosting them. IRAC is also sending teams of rabbis and social workers to the north to provide spiritual and emotional support.

• Association for the Promotion of the Education System in Haifa are providing educational materials for five-and six-year-olds living below the poverty line.

• Meir Panim - The Power to Give, an ultra-Orthodox organisation is networking with Druze and Russian immigrant communities to provide hot meals and activity kits to bomb shelters in the north.

• Born to Live Proudly is transporting teenagers from the Arab towns Iblin and Shfaram in the Western Galilee which have been hit by deadly missile attacks and completely lack shelters to a camp in the south.

• Israel Centre for the Treatment of Psycho trauma is creating kits for professionals to treat people experiencing anxiety and stress, and arranging activities for children and their parents in Hebrew and Arabic.

• Union of Arab Psychologists is providing emotional assistance to residents of the north in Arabic in nearly 20 locations including personal and telephone consultations.

• Yedid: The Association for Community Empowerment is collecting and sending books, games, toys and other items from other communities around Israel, to help entertain families whose days and nights are now spent in bomb shelters.

• Bizchut: Centre for Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities, is working with the IDF's Home Guard to find solutions for the deaf and hard of hearing, who are unable to hear the missile-warning siren.