We are reaching out with an urgent appeal to help two families who are currently living under profound financial and emotional hardship. Their situation is not the result of poor choices, but of difficult, ongoing, and deeply destabilizing life circumstances.

The First Family
A family with four young children is facing an overwhelming reality. In the wake of Israel’s severe economic and security situation, their financial stability collapsed rapidly. Both parents are struggling with serious emotional distress. The father was forced to leave his job after reaching a point where he could no longer withstand the mental and emotional burden of his work. Since then, he has relied on the generous help of close relatives, but this support is limited and far from sufficient to meet the basic needs of his family.

The mother suffers from a serious chronic illness that prevents her from working outside the home. Despite her condition, she is making every effort to generate a small income by selling products from home. These earnings, however, are minimal and cannot come close to covering the essential expenses of a household with young children.

Life in the home is extremely difficult. The daily struggle is not only financial but deeply emotional. The parents are doing everything they can to shield their children from the reality of lack, fear, and distress, yet their strength is wearing thin. This is where the mitzvah of charity becomes vital. Not merely as an act of giving, but as a means of protecting the hearts and souls of young children, so they do not grow up feeling hunger, anxiety, and insecurity.

The Second Family
This family belongs to the second generation of Holocaust survivors and carries a deep, unresolved trauma. The parents were raised in homes of Holocaust survivors, people who witnessed their parents and siblings being murdered before their eyes. Even after immigrating to Israel, they were unable to rebuild themselves economically or emotionally. The trauma passed silently from one generation to the next, through pain, loss, and a lack of tools to cope.

Today, their children are already adults, yet they are unable to work or provide for their families. They themselves are parents to young children who now live in an unstable and heartbreaking situation. This is a continuous cycle of hardship that has not been broken. Children growing up under constant distress, without stability and without a true source of support.

As a society, we must not abandon the children of Holocaust survivors. Our responsibility does not end with remembrance ceremonies and memorial days. It must be expressed through living, daily care for those who were scarred by history and continue to pay its price even now. To stand as their support and to help them to the fullest extent of our ability is a moral and human obligation.

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Every donation, large or small, brings light into a difficult reality. It provides food on the table, access to medication, moments of emotional relief, and a renewed sense of dignity and hope. This is an opportunity to fulfill charity in its deepest sense, to strengthen broken families, and to become true partners in sustaining lives.

May you be blessed for every act of kindness, every open heart, and every contribution.