Stories from Israel
Impact Stories
Stories of how ICEJ is making a difference in Israel, from rebuilding communities to caring for Holocaust survivors and bringing Jews home.
Featured Stories
Featured · August 18, 2026
Leave a Legacy for Israel’s Future: The Story of Kfar Aza’s New Music Center
It’s “Make-a Will” month. Read about one women’s choice to leave a legacy for Israel’s future that is blessing an Israeli community.
Featured · August 13, 2026
ICEJ Staff Pack Groceries for 1,000 Israeli Families
ICEJ staff helped 1,000 Israelis while handing each of them bags of groceries at a social welfare distribution site in Rishon LeZion.
Featured · August 6, 2026
Haifa Home for Holocaust Survivors Summer 2026 Update
Residents at the ICEJ’s Home for Holocaust Survivors in Haifa endured the escalation in the long, intense war with Iran and Hezbollah this past spring and are now embracing the 2026 summer months, showing their creativity in art and blessings the community in special ways.
Featured · July 23, 2026
Kibbutz Be’eri: Rebuilding a Community, Restoring Hope
The rebuilding of Kibbutz Be’eri in Israel encompasses every aspect of life—restoring people emotionally, physically, economically, and more.
Featured · June 10, 2026
ICEJ USA Donates over 11.5K Medical Supplies to Israel
ICEJ staff helped renovate 10 Holocaust Survivor homes frequently impacted by missiles from Iran.
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Comfort, Healing for Haifa Home Holocaust Survivors
Amid the ups and downs of life, and especially in these challenging times of war, we are working with the residents of the ICEJ’s Haifa Home for Holocaust Survivors to create little oases—places of refuge that provide comfort and healing for their body and soul.
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ICEJ Helps Expand Therapy Ranch for Traumatized Israeli Children
For decades, residents of Kibbutz Urim have lived under the constant threat of rocket and terror attacks from nearby Gaza, dangers that have deeply impacted the entire community.
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ICEJ Home for Holocaust Survivors Welcomes New Residents
In recent months, the ICEJ’s Home for Holocaust Survivors in Haifa bid farewell to three of our dear long-term residents who passed away while welcoming a new resident with a moving story of surviving World War II.
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ICEJ Helping New Immigrants to Israel Adapt to New Life
This keen insight recently came from Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI) chairman Doron Almog to explain why so many Jewish families are immigrating to Israel despite the ongoing conflict here.
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“Family Update” from the ICEJ’s Home for Holocaust Survivors
For the elderly residents of the ICEJ’s Home for Holocaust Survivors in Haifa, we provide a warm and welcoming community that feels more like family than a retirement home. Each one lost many relatives in the Holocaust some 80 years ago, and they are so glad to now live out their lives in dignity among our caring staff and fellow survivors who shared the same experiences. Here are some of the latest happenings at the Haifa Home.
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Recovery for Kibbutz Nir Oz in Israel: Healing through Design
This is a powerful line from a poem written by Bracha, a resident of Kibbutz Nir Oz in Israel, about facing the loss of her husband and a son during the Hamas massacres of October 7, 2023.
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ICEJ Homecare Inspires Joy, Brightens Days for Lonely in Israel
Homecare is a central part of the Christian Embassy’s founding mandate in 1980 to “Comfort, comfort My people” (Isaiah 40:1).
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ICEJ-Sponsored Sela Flights Bring Home Sons and Daughters of Zion
Aliyah to Israel continues at a fast pace despite more than a year of war. More than 30,000 Olim came home to Israel last year, a strong year for Aliyah considering Israel’s continuing seven-front war.
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Haifa Home Team Caring for Holocaust Survivors during War
Amid the intense conflict in northern Israel, the ICEJ’s Haifa Home for Holocaust Survivors continues to provide vital care and support to its elderly residents—many of whom bear the deep scars of surviving the horrors of previous wars.
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ICEJ War Relief Aid in Israel: One Year Overview
On the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah, 2023, the people of Israel awoke to a nightmare.
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ICEJ Offers Healing and Practical Help to Kibbutz Nir Oz
On October 7 last year, the peaceful community of Nir Oz, located a mere mile from the Gaza border, became a place of unimaginable tragedy. Hamas terrorists stormed the village, leaving devastation in their path. Over 80 percent of the kibbutz was destroyed….
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In Memorium: Betsy Rigell—Friend to Israel and ICEJ Shomer Society Member
The ICEJ recently lost a dear friend, Betsy Rigell. Betsy loved Israel and had been to the Land with her husband Sid many times, bringing groups to Israel. When Sid passed away, she felt an urge to work as a volunteer at the ICEJ in Jerusalem, and her six children encouraged her to do so. She applied and was accepted to work with me in the mail department. The ICEJ staff loved her warm and open character and her heart for prayer.