Keren Hayesod

A legacy reinforced: Keren Hayesod shows its impact in Israel’s challenging times

After decades of service to the state and people of Israel, Keren Hayesod has once again proven indispensable – fueling aid, resilience, and recovery efforts across Israel over the past two years

Keren Hayesod World Chairman Sam Grundwerg, CEO & Dir Gen Edna Weinstock-Gabay, Dr. Tzachi Slutsky, Soroka Deputy Hospital Manager, visiting ruins from an Iranian missile at Soroka Hospital, Beersheba
EDNA WEINSTOCK-GABAY: ‘The past year has once again revealed the depth of unity; in the most difficult moments, there was no difference between Israelis and Jews in the Diaspora,’ she maintains.

Aliyah Day 2025: Turning crisis into opportunity for global Jewish unity - opinion

Alon Futterman, CEO of the Kfar Aza Foundation.

No. 35: Alon Futterman - Director Kfar Azza foundation

Sam Grundwerg

No. 40: Sam Grundwerg: World Chairman of Keren Hayesod-UIA


Keren Hayesod celebrates 100 years by launching a crowdfunding campaign

If the campaign reaches its goal of a million euros, it will be doubled by donors.

Sam Grundwerg, Keren Hayesod’s World Chairman

Jewish Agency, Keren Hayesod to start operations, summer camps in UAE

The representatives also spoke of sending a permanent Jewish Agency emissary to the UAE.

Members of Dubai's Jewish community celebrate Hanukkah 2014 in the UAE desert.

Senior citizens learn how to use social media platforms amid pandemic

They’re also discovered that it’s a lot of fun sharing what they’ve found on the Internet.

RICHARD BRANSON poses on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange last year.

Board members deny politics in new Keren Hayesod CEO losing job

“I don’t think the decision was political,” a board member said. “If there was pressure from the prime minister’s family, she would not have been chosen in the first place.”

Polly Bronstein, executive director of Dakenu

Zero interest loans offered to Jewish communities to keep them afloat

The Jewish Agency for Israel, Keren Hayesod and Jewish Federations of North America, are launching the 'COVID-19 Loan Fund for Communities in Crisis.'

Jewish Agency women pay tribute to Rosie the Riveter in honor of International Women's Day.

As coronavirus affects Italian Jews, Israeli NGOs step up to offer support

Chairman of The Jewish Agency for Israel, Isaac Herzog, and Chairman of Keren Hayesod, Sam Grundwerg, spoke with leaders of Rome and Milan's Jewish communities.

A man wearing a protective face mask to prevent contracting the coronavirus walks past the Duomo Cathedral in Milan, Italy, March 4, 2020

Israel’s youngest emissaries: The ‘ShinShinim’

ISAAC HERZOG, Jewish Agency chairman, with agency ‘shlichim’ at the North American Shlichim Conference.

ISAAC HERZOG, Jewish Agency chairman, with agency ‘shlichim’ at the North American Shlichim Conference.

Why is Keren Hayesod honoring Vladimir Putin?

Keren Hayesod will be bringing the world’s foremost Jewish philanthropists to meet the man who has kept Bashar Assad in power in Syria while he has repeatedly gassed innocent Arab children.

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a news conference

The ultimate proof of partnership

Would the State of Israel have been established without philanthropy, a social justice form of giving?

Theodor Herzl addresses the First Zionist Congress in Basel in 1897

From 1947 to 2018 – the miracles of November 29

November 29, 1947, marked one of the greatest milestones along the road to realizing the miracle of the modern Jewish state.

Jews crowd onto a British army armoured car as they celebrate in downtown Jerusalem the morning after the United Nations voted on November 29, 1947 to partition Palestine which paved the way for the creation of the State of Israel on May 15, 1948.