The ICEJ has assisted scores of Israeli evacuee families with housing, emergency aid, educational needs, and emotional support, including:

• Offered respite days to 450 evacuees, including congregation, new immigrants from South.
• Gave 440 gift vouchers for families from Kfar Aza and Sderot.
• Housed 18 evacuees in home near Jerusalem, along with food and emergency items.
• Furnished basic needs for evacuated families, including games, mattresses, first aid kits, food.
• Sponsored activities for 1,180 evacuees, some with disabilities.
• Provided therapeutic activities and emotional support, including for residents of Kfar Azza.
• Donated computers for ten evacuee families.
• Supplied 12 school classrooms, plus equipment and books for evacuated children.
• Gave scholarships for evacuated students from Sderot to attend school in Jerusalem.
• Packed 250 bags with toys and distributed to evacuated families in North.
• Funded printing of 4,000 books to help traumatised evacuates with resilience. (Books printed at Be’eri Printing House to help rehabilitate community.)
• Provided tutoring for orphaned children of Kibbutz Be’eri.
• Donated two ‘gymborees’, indoor playgrounds for children of Kibbutz Alumim and Be’eri.
• Contributed furniture making workshop for youth clubhouse of Kibbutz Nir Oz.
• Gave financial help and replaced burned household items for 78 families in Nir Oz and Be’eri.
• Funded parent/child trips and therapeutic activity for evacuees of Nir Yitzchak.
• Renovated ten apartments for elderly evacuees.
• Supplied house-warming gift packages for families of Kibbutz Nir Oz, Be’eri, and Re’im.

Summary of ICEJ’s War Relief Aid Efforts (Downloadable PDF)

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