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.
All Stories
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Holocaust Survivors at Haifa Home know They are Not Alone
It has been more than a month since Israel faced the most horrific terror attack in its modern history, turning the usually joyous holiday of Simchat Torah into a frightening day of shock and mourning.
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ICEJ-Donated Radios Saved Thousands of Israeli Lives on October 7
When waves of Hamas terrorists breached the border fence and slaughtered over 1,200 Israelis on October 7, four Israeli communities just north of Gaza managed to fend off the attackers and avoid the carnage that befell other nearby farming villages.
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Putting Color Back Into Tanya’s Life
When visitors arrive at the hostel for elderly citizens where Tanya lives, they are treated to a display of her beautiful paintings that decorate the hallways.
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Opening New Horizons for Young Israelis
Horizons was launched in 2022. It quickly mushroomed and includes 554 Israeli Arab women and men…
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Haifa Home and the War in Israel
The sudden outbreak of war on October 7 on the Jewish celebration of Simchat Torah and the horrific atrocities perpetrated against innocent civilians and soldiers has left Israel in great shock and grief.
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Baltic Summer Camps Prepare Jewish Youths for Life in Israel
Over one million Russian-speaking Jews have immigrated to Israel since the Iron Curtain fell in 1989, but hundreds of thousands of Jews are still left in the former Soviet republics.
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Caring for a Family Handpicked by God
I recently set off to visit Sveta in the early morning. Sveta lives with her extended family in a small apartment in a deprived neighborhood near Jerusalem.
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The Last Flight of Ethiopian Airlift–Phase II Has Arrived
Israel declared an end to Phase II of its “Operation Tzur Israel” airlift of Ethiopian Jews when 130 immigrants landed on an Aliyah flight sponsored by the ICEJ.
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Haifa Home Residents Delight in New Experiences
Here is the latest from the ICEJ’s unique Home for Holocaust Survivors in Haifa.
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Aliyah Village Offers Ethiopian Immigrants Soft Landing in Israel
Earlier this month, an ICEJ team visited the Beit Alfa immigrant village in Northern Israel to meet one of the Jewish families we recently sponsored on an Aliyah flight and hear how they were settling into their new home.
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At-Risk Children Launch a Business and a New Season of Life
In May an ICEJ delegation was invited to take part in one of the most anticipated life events of every Jewish youth—their bar or bat mitzvah.
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ICEJ Support is Music To The Ears of Israeli Druze School
An ICEJ delegation led by Nicole Yoder, Vice President for AID & Aliyah, recently visited the Druze village of Kfar Kisra in Northern Israel, where they saw how music can lift spirits.