Evacuees

Baby food aid requests rose 25% in 2025, infant formula prices climb, Social Bank reports

Data from the National Insurance Institute found that 2.8 million Israelis currently live with food insecurity, including over a million children.

An illustration of a mother feeding a baby a bottle of formula.
What do Israelis dream about post October 7?

Sleepless nation: Dreams reveal Israelis' ongoing struggle with October 7 trauma - study

Bank Hapoalim.

Bank Hapoalim, Paamonim launch free coaching program for northern evacuees

THE DEVASTATED remains of apartments in Tel Aviv where residents were forbidden from entering to retrieve possessions.

Picking up the pieces: Israelis who lost homes in Iran attack remain traumatized by bureaucracy


How are Israel's evacuees faring after being forced to flee their homes?

Almost five months have passed since Oct. 7. Most evacuees have begun returning home, but it’s not at all back to normal.

 RELIGIOUS LEADERS tour the destruction in Kibbutz Kfar Aza.

Jewish basketball player uses the game he loves to help Israeli children during wartime

Jared Armstrong’s season was about to start on Oct. 7. Now he’s using basketball to help Israeli children escape the realities of war.

 Jared Armstrong is running free basketball clinics for children in Ashkelon, Israel.

2,000-year-old Hasmonean coin discovered by child evacuated on Oct.7

While exploring the area around the hotel that he had been evacuated to along the Dead Sea, Nati Toyikar came across an ancient coin dating back to the Hasmonean period

 2,000 year old Hasmonean coin found by a kibbutz evacuee, February, 2024

Mail service in the North halted as evacuees struggle to get vital documents

Since the beginning of the war, there has been no mail service in the North, and critical documents aren't reaching those displaced in hotels.

 Mailboxes (illustrative image).

'Lending a hand': Teva employees worldwide donate refurbished computers to Israelis affected by war

They collected and shipped hundreds of laptops that had been previously used, now repurposed to aid those affected by the conflict.

(L-R) Amalia Adler Waxman (Global ESG Manager at Teva and International Markets Communications Manager), Talia Lebanon (CEO of the Israeli Trauma Coalition) and Eli Gilboa (IT Manager at Teva, Head of Global Service Desk & NOC)

Israeli family unites to help victims of Oct. 7 staying at evacuee hotels

Shirran Hasid and her father's first thoughts were for the comfort and well-being of some 200 people who had been displaced from their homes in Kiryat Shmona.

EVACUEE RACHELI AMSALAM gets hugs from children returning ‘home’ from school at hotel the family is temporarily living in

Israeli NGO connects people in need with surplus goods during ongoing war

In 2023 alone, the NGO distributed over 40 million shekels worth of goods to those in need, primarily through third-party channels.

 Tomer Shemesh, the driving force behind Social Delivery

Israel-Hamas War: Hotels go the extra mile to help evacuees

Israel's hotels have transformed from spas, resorts, business centers, and tourist attractions to venues where those displaced by the war with Hamas can hang their at and call it home.

EVACUEE RACHELI AMSALAM gets hugs from children returning ‘home’ from school at hotel the family is temporarily living in

This week in Jerusalem: Jerusalem for you

A weekly round-up of city affairs.

 The new sports complex underneath the Pais Arena will include a bowling alley.

Jerusalem hotel gives evacuees fleeing Hamas, Hezbollah new swimwear

A Jerusalem hotel, hand in hand with a generous couple, provides swimwear for 240 children and teens.

 In the water at the Ramada.