Newsletter - JOIN Israel

Winter Newsletter

JOIN Emergency Response Effort:

Our Own Way, JOIN’s at-risk youth program, with its full community support network is located in Sdeort, the epicenter of the massacre, on the Gaza border. An array of programs for children, teens, and adults, coordinated with goverment agencies have supported the displaced community.

JOIN Lifeline’s Netivot and Ofakim cities on the Gaza border have been meeting special needs of the elderly, including distributing food coupons, medicine and assistance with relocation.

JOIN Therapy is providing ongoing trauma counseling, workshops and education for children and adults affected by the war.

Winter Newsletter

Winter Newsletter

• 2021 Year in Review
• 2022 Lifeline Challenge
• JOIN Educational Incubator
• New Young Leadership Board
• JOIN Updates: Couples Get-Away, Bolster Education, JOIN Literacy & Women’s Retreat
• and SO much more!

Counselors providing support in Sderot, Israel’s “bomb-shelter capital”

Article by Kate Hertz Located approximately one mile outside of Gaza, Sderot has become known as the “bomb-shelter capital” with everything from bus stops to playgrounds doubling as bomb-shelters to protect residents from Qassam rockets. Alarms sound 15 seconds before a rocket hits the city, forcing people to live in constant fear of needing to…

Winter Newsletter

Learn about JOIN’s COVID-19 multi-emergency response, 2020 hindsight’s of JOIN Israel-USA, new projects, Our Own Way-bolstering at-risk youth, a grateful acknowledgment of contributions from 2020 and more.

March 2020 Newsletter

Best Big Brother in Today’s Difficult Circumstances Even under normal circumstances, life is not easy for the 40 youth of JOIN’s Big Brother program in the southern city of Ofakim. Coming from very poor, mostly dysfunctional or emotionally absent Russian-immigrant families, home is not the warm and cozy, supportive and encouraging, positive and secure environment where…

Winter 2019 Newsletter

JOIN’s Solutions Advocacy program is unique – and indispensable. For families suffering the most convoluted legal and financial situations, unable to afford the best law firms, there is nowhere else.