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Yad Sarah on High Alert amid Israel’s Heightened Security Concerns

Jerusalem – Sunday, August 4, 2024 – Amid elevated concerns over an escalation of large-scale attacks on Israel led by Iran and Hezbollah, Yad Sarah has placed its 127 branches across the country on heightened precautionary alert, significantly increasing activity in its 29 northern branches. These measures reflect Yad Sarah’s deep commitment to supporting the […]

Status Overview: Yad Sarah – Majdal Shams

Tuesday, July 30, 2024 – The town of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights is still reeling from the shock of Saturday’s Hezbollah rocket attack that killed 12 children and left upwards of 44 people injured. While there will be immense challenges and a long road ahead, especially for those in Majdal Shams, Yad Sarah […]

Yad Sarah: Fortifying Health & Home Care Aid Services amid Rising Tensions on Israel’s Northern Border

Overview from Yad Sarah CEO, Moshe Cohen: “As tensions in Northern Israel escalate, Yad Sarah has been tirelessly enhancing its emergency wartime preparedness. We are regularly replenishing our inventory of vital medical & rehabilitation equipment and reinforcing our 7,000-strong volunteer force to sustain life-ensuring health and home care services, even in the event of a […]

For hostage families and their supporters this Passover, celebrating the Festival of Freedom feels impossible

For many Israelis this Passover, celebrating the Festival of Freedom feels impossible

Home for the Holidays: How Yad Sarah helps people celebrate the seder at home

Why volunteering as an older adult elevates both individuals and nonprofits

On high alert since October 7, hospitals were already prepared to deal with Iran attack

Home for the Passover Holiday: Yad Sarah Makes It Possible for Israelis to Welcome Recovering Heros, Evacuees and Seniors to the Passover Seder

NGO sees 48% surge in this year’s demand for at-home medical and rehab equipment loans as Israelis prepare for holiday against the backdrop of war Jerusalem, April 10, 2024—Yad Sarah, the leading nongovernmental healthcare and social services organization in Israel, announced that it is extending its services to support thousands of wounded, displaced and elderly […]

Yad Sarah encourages Israelis to welcome recovering heroes, evacuees, and seniors to the Seder

Yad Sarah Purchases Additional New Home Hospital Van Using Funds from Daily Giving Donation

A generous donation from 18,000 Daily Givers allows Yad Sarah to expand Home Hospital service and reduce pressure on overwhelmed hospitals in Israel. JERUSALEM, Israel – Yad Sarah, Israel’s leading volunteer-staffed organization, announced today that it has purchased an additional Home Hospital van, using funds from Daily Giving – a non-profit organization that […]

Israeli Charity Boosts Fleet Delivering Home Hospitalization Gear

Surviving a Hezbollah Power Grid Strike

Yad Sarah Rolls Out Nationwide Emergency Oxygen Protocol as Precautionary Safeguard against Strike on Israel’s Power Grid

The nationwide system will provide initial live-saving aid for individuals requiring ongoing oxygen support in the event of widespread electrical outages due to an escalation in hostilities Jerusalem, February 22, 2024 – Yad Sarah, the leading nongovernmental healthcare and social services organization in Israel, today announced that it has begun rolling out plans for a […]

On This Holocaust Remembrance Day, One Cannot, Should not, Forget about the Survivors

Yad Sarah airlifts emergency rehab supplies, circumventing Red Sea attacks

Yad Sarah receives first airlift of medical aid as it avoids Houthi attacks

As Houthi attacks disrupt Red Sea shipping, Yad Sarah flies in critical medical equipment

Israel’s Leading Non-Profit Circumvents Houthi Attacks With Airlift of Emergency Equipment for Wounded Soldiers

Raising money — and spirits — in times of emergency

Israeli organization building emergency medical equipment amid war escalations

Yad Sarah Volunteer Driver Evacuated Dozens with Disabilities Revs On

‘It’s The Most Important Thing I Can Do Now,’ says Eliyahu Martziano of his volunteerism Yad Sarah volunteer driver Eliyahu (Eli) Marziano single-handedly evacuated dozens of individuals from the southern Israeli communities near the Gaza border in the initial days of war. During those dark days, Eli transversed roads with incessant rocket fire overhead in […]

Yad Sarah Receives 1st Airlift of Emergency Medical & Rehab Equipment as it Circumvents Houthi Red Sea Attacks

The first in a series of anticipated deliveries arrives as the organization’s replenishes critical inventory to support the recovery of soldiers and civilians hurt in Israel-Hamas war Jerusalem, February 8, 2023 – In the early hours of February 6th, a significant delivery of urgent medical equipment sourced and procured by Yad Sarah, Israel’s leading volunteer-run […]

3 Generations of Yad Sarah – The Yehuda Family

Aaron Yehuda is a Yad Sarah volunteer who lives in Jerusalem. His entire family is from Kiryat Shmona in Northern Israel, about three miles south of the border with Lebanon; his mother and sisters still live there. However, after war broke out following the October 7 onslaught, rocket and artillery attacks began in Northern Israel, […]

Yad Sarah’s Repair Workshop: Getting Rehab Equipment to Wounded Soldiers at ‘Lightning Speed’

Meet Vitali Bord, the steady hand behind Yad Sarah’s efforts to support the rapid rehabilitation of Israel’s soldiers through critical medical equipment loans. Vitali worked as a chief engineer in the largest factory in the former Soviet Union in a company that produced advanced technological equipment such as robots and mechanical equipment and chip processing. […]

Yad Sarah Launches Emergency Campaign to Airlift Rehab Equipment amid Wartime Shipping Disruptions

Yad Sarah, Israel’s largest medical equipment and supplies lending NGO, is facing a life-endangering deficit in its inventory of Mobile Oxygen Generators and is in urgent need of additional Continuous Passive Motion (CPM) machines. Since October 7th, the organization has allocated a full year’s worth of medical equipment – including oxygen generators and CPMs – […]

Yad Sarah Uplifts Family of Soldier Wounded in Gaza through Spirit of Chesed

Several weeks ago, Rivka’s world was shaken when her son, Moshe – along with six of his fellow IDF soldiers – was injured in a firefight with terrorists in Gaza. This was not the first time Moshe had defended Israel in direct combat in Gaza, having also served in 2014’s Operation Protective Edge. Now a […]

Walter Bingham at 100: Holder of Two Guinness World Records – A Force of Nature and Resilience

World’s oldest-living journalist and Holocaust survivor reflects on his remarkable journey, parallels between the Israel-Hamas war and WWII era, and his connection to Yad Sarah At the age of 100, journalist Walter Bingham still produces two weekly radio shows from his home in Jerusalem, attends press conferences and travels the world. Bingham’s entire life […]

Yad Sarah Lends a Helping Hand for Rehabilitating IDF Soldier Hurt in Gaza

Several weeks ago, IDF combat soldier A. was in a gun battle with terrorists in Gaza. At one point he had to lie flat on the ground to dodge the bullets. On the way down, he hit his knee very hard, but he didn’t tell his superior and stayed in the field for a few […]

Yad Sarah Expands Operations to Support Rehabilitation of Over 2,500 IDF Soldiers, Reducing Stress on Healthcare System

The Jerusalem-based NGO has expanded its medical equipment lending and aid services to meet immediate & long-term rehabilitation needs JERUSALEM, Israel, January 10, 2024 – Yad Sarah, Israel’s leading volunteer-staffed organization and largest nongovernmental social and healthcare service provider, has expanded its operations to support the rehabilitation of over 2,500 soldiers – nearly half of […]

How Houthi attacks on ships in the Red Sea threaten Israel’s economy

Houthi attacks in Red Sea delay arrival of critical Yad Sarah medical equipment

How to better heal Israel’s wounded

Yad Sarah Ashkelon: Standing Ground to Aid Southern Israel

With the war Hamas imposed upon Israel surpassing two months, rocket sirens and explosions still riddle the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon on a near-daily basis. Regarded as Israel’s “most targeted city,” Ashkelon has, since the atrocities of October 7, endured 1,380 rockets from Gaza – with some 200 landing and three hitting local hospital, […]

IDF Soldiers Return Yad Sarah Medical Equipment Looted from Kibbutzim by Hamas Terrorists

exceptionally unusual request arrived at Yad Sarah’s Soldier Rehabilitation Unit on Dec. 20. A commander who had received help from our unit to provide his soldiers with multi-system equipment allowing them to be discharged from the hospital and recover at home with home hospitalization equipment, asked for our help on a different matter. He needed […]

Prayers in Times of War: Yad Sarah takes Evacuated Wheelchair Users to Western Wall

Amid the hardships of war, Yad Sarah volunteer drivers this week (November 6) transported a group of evacuates who use wheelchairs from the northern city of Kiryat Shmona to visit the Western Wall and deliver their prayers at the holiest site in Judaism. The volunteers drove the evacuees in the organization’s wheelchair-accessible vans. They departed […]

Yad Sarah’s Volunteer Mobile Dental Clinic Treats Evacuees in Eilat, Dead Sea

As part of Yad Sarah’s emergency campaign to extend humanitarian care to those affected by war, the organization’s Mobile Dental Clinic, has been operating as a dental clinic on-wheels accessible for the thousands of evacuees from combat zones and to those housebound due to wartime precautions. The Clinic’s volunteer dentists and field workers are operating […]

US-Born Volunteer Drives Aid to Refugees Amassed at Dead Sea Hotels

As Israel grapples with the fallout of war, New Jersey native Aryeh Berger, 30, is among the many new volunteers who’ve joined Yad Sarah as part of its nation-wide emergency relief efforts. Mere days after the October 7 onslaught by Hamas, Aryeh underwent immediate training as a driver for Yad Sarah’s nechnoit (wheelchair-accessible van) unit, […]

Yad Sarah: Medical Equipment Lending Saves Israeli Healthcare System NIS 5.5 Billion Each Yera – Page 75

Despite Rockets, Veteran Yad Sarah Volunteer Dedicates His Service 24/7

Eyal Melamed drives humanitarian care to the embattled South and beyond on a daily basis Since the onset of the raging Israel-Hamas war, Yad Sarah volunteer driver Eyal Melamed has been tirelessly working around the clock to get critical medicines and medical services to those in Israel’s embattled South and beyond. Eyal’s unwavering commitment has […]

Since the Outbreak of the October 7th War, Yad Sarah’s Community Pharmacy Distributes Over Half A Million ILS Worth of Medicines Free of Charge Across Israel

To meet heightened need for critical medicines, the nonprofit Briut Shava Lakol has: Allocated the equivalent of half a routine year’s stock within the first month of war Faced a 180% surge in demand for non-prescription drugs Played an outsized role in helping displaced individuals retrieve and fill prescriptions lost or forgotten in the chaos […]

Against the Backdrop of War: Yad Sarah Continues to Offer Sanctuary of Respite for Couples after the Tragedy of Stillbirth

JERUSALEM, Israel – October 26, 2023 – The Center for Wellness and Respite at Israeli NGO Yad Sarah’s Yirmiyahu 33 Hotel in Jerusalem is currently embracing families coping with the tragedy of stillbirth or postnatal death against the backdrop of war. Since the outbreak of the war, the Center has hosted 14 women or couples […]

Yad Sarah Extends Urgent Humanitarian Aid to Thousands as Israel Faces Long Journey of Healing and Rehabilitation

ONE MONTH SINCE OCTOBER 7th ATTACKS: Yad Sarah Extends Urgent Humanitarian Aid to Thousands as Israel Faces Long Journey of Healing and Rehabilitation Jerusalem, Israel – November 9, 2023 – Yad Sarah, Israel’s leading volunteer-staffed organization and largest nongovernmental social and healthcare service provider, today reported that its Emergency Relief Campaign has extended humanitarian aid […]

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