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Back-to-school shopping in Israel. Photo by Arik Shraga/IFCJ.

60% of Israeli parents fear rising costs may impact children’s education

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As millions of Israeli children prepare for the first day of school, a study by the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (IFCJ) has revealed that nearly 60% of parents fear that the rising...
The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews sent financial support to send more Israeli kids to summer camp in 2023. Credit: IFCJ.

Scholarships help send more Israeli youth to summer-camp programs

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Doubling support to the Israel Summer Camps Forum, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (IFCJ) has contributed more than 1.5 million shekels (more than $400,000) towards scholarships for campers this summer. The scholarship...
A bomb shelter donated by the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews is unloaded in Ashkelon, May 10, 2023. Photo by Yossi Zeliger/IFCJ.

International Fellowship of Christians and Jews rushes bomb shelters to Ashkelon

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On Wednesday, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews placed five bomb shelters in areas of Ashkelon identified by local authorities as lacking ample protection. The locations included residential neighborhoods where homes had no shelters...
Aliyah and Integration Minister Ofir Sofer (center) and IFCJ President Yael Eckstein (right) welcome Ukrainian olim at Ben-Gurion Airport, Feb. 8, 2023. Photo by Avishag Shaar-Yashuv/IFCJ.

90 Ukrainian Jewish refugees come home to Israel

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Ninety Ukrainian Jewish refugees arrived in Israel on Wednesday to begin a new chapter of their lives, on a chartered flight made possible by the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (IFCJ). The group joined...
Workers with the KAIROS Company for the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews set in place a mobile bomb shelter, May 13, 2021. Credit: IFCJ.

Fellowship adds new mobile bomb shelters in bombarded Ashkelon, Israel

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In response to the barrage of nearly 2,000 rockets being launched by Hamas in the Gaza Strip into Israel, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews has placed 13 mobile bomb shelters this week...
The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, in conjunction with Amidar—Israel’s national public housing company and a branch of the Ministry of Construction and Housing—are distributing winter kits to 10,000 elderly residents in public housing across the country, January 2021. Credit: IFCJ.

10,000 elderly residents in public housing across Israel receive winter kits

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In the midst of winter in Israel, residents are struggling with the financial burden of heating their homes, especially as they spend more time indoors as a result of the coronavirus pandemic and bills...
The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews distributed approximately 500 protective vests for social workers and emergency response workers in Negev communities on Sept. 1, 2020. Photo by Yossi Zeliger.

Social workers in Israel’s south get 500 protective vests for rocket barrages

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The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews distributed approximately 500 protective vests on Tuesday for social workers and emergency response workers in Negev communities, including Beersheva, Sderot, Netivot and a number of Bedouin communities. “The...
A total of 140 new arrivals from France landed at Ben-Gurion International on Aug. 3, 2020. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi.

Citing anti-Semitism in Europe, 140 French Jews move to Israel

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A total of 140 new olim (“immigrants”) from France arrived in Israel earlier this week and were welcomed at Ben-Gurion Airport by Pnina Tamano-Shata, Israeli Minister of Immigration and Absorption, and the president of the International...
A homebound elderly woman in Israel feeling the isolation. Credit: IFCJ.

Homebound seniors in Israel battle isolation, loneliness during pandemic

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While a number of Jewish organizations are focused on helping the elderly in Israel, who are at a higher risk of getting extremely sick from the coronavirus (COVID-19), not get infected with coronavirus, the...
The Shopotinsky family—Alexander, Victoria, Sergey and Elizabetha—leave Ukraine to make their new home in Israel, partly due to rising anti-Semitism in Eastern Europe, Jan. 27, 2020 .Credit: The Fellowship.

Ukrainian ‘olim’ land in Israel on International Holocaust Remembrance Day

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A total of 184 new immigrants (olim) making aliyah from Ukraine via the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews landed in Israel on six separate flights on Jan. 27, International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Many noted that anti-Semitism...