Non-profit

Jerusalem to add 2015 Pride Parade victim to municipal names registry, memorial site planned

Banki was 15 when she was stabbed during the Jerusalem Pride and Tolerance Parade in 2015. Six other marchers were also wounded in the knife attack carried out by Yishai Schlissel.

A person takes a photo of a memorial sign showing the image of Shira Banki, an Israeli teenager who was stabbed during the 2015 Jerusalem Pride Parade, during the 21st annual Jerusalem Pride Parade in Jerusalem on June 1, 2023.
Levi Preger (L) and Max Long, the founder of the Growing Wings Foundation.

Levi Preger: From a Dutch town to the IDF

Volunteers on Good Deeds Day 2025

Good Deeds Day is underway - Twenty years of doing from the heart

View of humanitarian supplies for Gaza, with the logos of Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) and World Health Organization, stored at the Egyptian Red Crescent warehouses storing aid, in the Egyptian border town of El-Arish, Egypt, April 8, 2025.

MSF halts staff list submission to Israel, raises safety, transparency issues


John Cena holds world record for most wishes granted with Make-A-Wish

John Cena has been the most requested celebrity within the foundation. He is the first celebrity to have granted over 200 wishes in the foundation's 42-year history.

 Cast member John Cena (L) and Nikki Bella attend the premiere of "Blockers" in Los Angeles, California, U.S. April 3, 2018.

Pro-Israel donor Barre Seid donated $1.6 billion to conservative group

The New York Times reported that the donation is “among the largest — if not the largest — single contributions ever made to a politically focused nonprofit.”

Leonard Leo speaks at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington, DC, April 23, 2019. Leo heads the Marble Freedom Trust, to which Barre Seid donated $1.6 billion.

Spam messages: Israel's laws and what you should do

Just say no to spam emails and SMS messages.

 Spam mail

CPA Institute head: State harms nonprofits' ability to raise funds for those in need

There are 1,600 large non-profit organizations in Israel and 8,250 small non-profit organizations

 Chen Schreiber

House committee approves $360m. for nonprofit security grant program

The Nonprofit Security Grant Program permits houses of worship and other threatened nonprofits to apply for grants of up to $150,000 each.

 LAW ENFORCEMENT vehicles near a synagogue group taken hostage in Colleyville, Texas, this past January. The book’s author is the synagogue’s founder and a key spokeswoman regarding the incident.

Shira Banki's Way: Israeli nonprofit promoting tolerance

The murdered teen’s parents create an education nonprofit to promote the positive values and tolerance she held dear.

 PLACING FLOWERS in memory of Shira Banki, murdered at the 2015 Jerusalem pride parade.

Jewish soldiers are buried under crosses around the world. A rabbi’s nonprofit is changing that.

The placement of crosses was often the result of administrative error in war times, or of soldiers obscuring their Jewish identities during a war in which Nazis summarily executed Jews.

ONE OF MORE than 170 Jewish headstones lies toppled following an attack on Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery in University City, a suburb of St Louis, Missouri, in 2017.

Kenneth Roth to resign from Human Rights Watch after 30 years at the helm

The child of Jewish parents, whose father fled Nazi Germany as a teenager, Roth was outspoken on human rights abuses by or in many countries.

Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, gestures during an interview with Reuters in Geneva, Switzerland, January 12, 2021. Picture taken January 12, 2021.

First day care for disabled people opens in Kfar Kassem

For decades, residents of Kfar Kassem have had to commute to centers in nearby cities for care – or worse, they were left without any care at all.

 A staff member from the Chimes center with a patricipant.

COVID-19: Nonprofits struggle financially, their top executives earn big

While many nonprofits were struggling, there were those with top execs earning high salaries, and that’s in addition to the tens of millions of shekels they have in cash reserves.

Illustrative photo of Israeli money