Internally displaced people

JNF allocates NIS 33 million to rebuild border-adjacent northern towns 2-5 km from Lebanon

Under the decision, each community evacuated during the fighting that has not yet received JNF support will receive 1.5 million NIS for infrastructure rehabilitation and development.

An overlook of Kiryat Shmona in northern Israel.
The head of Hezbollah's Executive Council, Ali Damoush addresses a press conference in the southern suburbs of Beirut on October 13, 2026.

Hezbollah to distribute up to $14,000 per family following war with Israel, official says

Hezbollah flag mural provides backdrop for gun-wielding shadows.

Hezbollah receives $200 million cash infusion from Iran to support families tied to terror group

An internally displaced Yemeni boy carries sticks of firewood on his head at a makeshift camp for the internally displaced who fled their homes due to renewed clashes between Yemen's Saudi-backed government forces and the Houthi authorities in the northern Hajjah governorate on October 7, 2026.

Yemen displacement surges past 200,000 following fresh Houthi offensive, UN migration body warns


Syria shutters displacement camp Rukban, symbol of Assad regime, people's suffering

Between 2018 and 2019, the number of displaced people in the camp reached 50,000, most of them women and children, according to a Syrian media report.

 A little girl walks near makeshift tents at Rukban camp, which lies in no-man's-land off the border between Syria and Jordan in the remote northeast, near Damascus, Syria on September 27, 2018.

Jewish clergy, creatives denounce Trump’s Gaza proposal in full-page NYT ad

Trump’s calls for the takeover of the Gaza Strip were clearly designated as business deals for the 47th US president.

 An illustration US President Donald Trump and the Gaza Strip

For Israelis still displaced from their homes, reclaiming the kitchen can be an act of hope

Dahan was invited to cook for customers at the cafe, part of the Asif Culinary Institute of Israel, after taking part in the Open Kitchen Project.

 Cooking in the kitchen

RSF attack on Sudanese village leaves 85 dead amid escalating violence

Sudan's Rapid Support Forces launched a brutal attack on the village of Galgani, killing at least 85 people, including women and children.

 Families flee RSF advances in Sudan's El Gezira state, on Sennar Road in the city of al-Dinder, Sennar state, Sudan, July 18, 2024.

We are all family here: Connecting with each other during wartime

It is in times of crisis that we realize how intertwined our lives are.

 People take cover as a siren warns of incoming rockets fired from Lebanon, into the northern Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona, June 19, 2024.

Home Sweet (not) Home: The displaced residents of northern Israel

Some 90,000 Israelis, mainly from the northern communities closest to Lebanon, were sent to hotels around the country in a large-scale humanitarian project.

 Posing outside the Dan Jerusalem Hotel (L-R): Herzl Shriki and his daughter Tamar, Shelly Dadia, Leah and Marc Hersch, Shalom Chayut, and Yosef Tzarfati.

The youth of Israel are a reason for hope - opinion

The youth of Israel today are walking in the footsteps of the founders of Zionism. 

 VOLUNTEERS HELP a local raspberry grower in Moshav Avnei Eitan, on the Golan Heights, last December. The youth of Israel today are walking in the footsteps of the founders of Zionism, volunteering to keep agricultural communities alive, says the writer.

As Israel loses the North, IFCJ soup kitchen serves those still living under fire

IFCJ supports 21 soup kitchens across Israel. They have increased funding to the Kiryat Shmona soup kitchen to enable it to provide more meals.

 IFCJ PRESIDENT Yael Eckstein (center) visits a shelter in Kiryat Shmona. ‘I think it’s a very incorrect assumption to feel or think that we, in the rest of Israel, are not connected to what’s happening there.’

A taste of resilience: October 7 survivors from Netiv Ha'asara open cafe in Sarona, Tel Aviv

Other communities scheduled to have cafes include Kibbutz Re'im, Kibbutz Zikim, Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, and Sderot.

 Inside Cafe Otef - Netiv Ha'asara in Serona, May 6, 2024.

Israel's North, South evacuees have been forgotten amid Gaza war - opinion

As Purim approaches and we gather for the festive meal, may we not forget those compelled to flee their homes, yet steadfastly clinging to every fragment of hope that our society must extend to them.

 RESIDENTS OF Kibbutz Nir Am were relocated to Herod’s Hotel in Tel Aviv after being evacuated following the October 7 massacre.