Volunteering

ZAKA announces it responded to over 7,000 cases in Israel and abroad in 2025 annual report

“Our volunteers work quietly and professionally to ensure every person is treated with respect and that families can bury their loved ones with dignity and certainty,” said ZAKA CEO Weissenstern

Zaka volunteers
Magen David Adom vehicles.

MDA deploys an ambulance every 22 seconds through 2025, with more than 1 million calls

United Hatzalah's Miami Gala

From Hamas to Hatzalah: Freed hostage Bar Kupershtein inducted as EMT at United Hatzalah Miami Gala

Leora and her daughter run the Jerusalem marathon.

Finding her place: Leora Leeder's journey from New York to Israel


Help provide food for needy families in the north before holiday

Emergency Logistics Center of Pitchon-Lev Moved in the North: 3,500 Families Need Food Baskets for the Holiday. Help Support Needy Families in Conflict Areas.

  Food donations at Pitchon Lev

The Next Step: Amputee athletes changing the game

Launch of the Amit Melave project by the Lottery and The Next Step to support new amputees, aiding in rehabilitation and sports for about 40 individuals, and sharing inspiring stories.

 Viola Yamit Gutman

Innovating for Israel: Dr. Sol Lizerbram on leadership, legacy, and the next chapter

Dr. Sol Lizerbram summarizes his presidency of the Jewish National Fund-USA for the last seven years.

 Dr. Sol Lizerbram meets with Israeli firefighters supported by Jewish National Fund-USA

Cooking with Love for Soldiers: Making meals for over 2,000 IDF troops

Cooking with Love for Soldiers is a Zichron Ya’acov enterprise that musters 200 volunteers to prepare and transport homemade food every week to some 2,000 IDF reserve soldiers, mainly in the North.

  Door to door: The food is delivered to soldiers on IDF bases across northern Israel.

Leket Israel bolsters the local economy by supporting tour guides and farmers


Social design: The initiatives that shape our society

Using design to give back: shaping society through initiatives. Designing basic items for the community can make a positive impact in our environment.

 Skateboards, Isracard

For the citizens: Giv'atayim building dedicated to comfort and rescue

An Entire Building for Israel's Citizens: The National Headquarters of "Nechama and Rescue for Israel" Opens in Giv'atayim, Mobilizing Life-Saving Donations During the War

 The National Headquarters of "Nechama and Rescue for Israel"

Grapevine: Jerusalem is blooming

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 New National Library of Israel building in Jerusalem, exterior.

Ruach Hadash: Volunteer clinic in Haifa serves asylum-seeking refugees

The project is the brainchild of the Technion Faculty of Medicine as a means of teaching medical students a more holistic approach to treating patients.

 Artie Jacobowitz, a volunteer biomedical equipment engineer.

How youth philanthropy creates ripple effects through Israeli society - opinion

We have experienced firsthand how quickly a seed of philanthropy can grow, positively influencing and empowering young people and the communities in which they live.

 PARTICIPANTS TAKE part in Honeycomb’s Magshimim program in Israel. The program introduces teens to philanthropy through a Jewish lens, the writer explains.