Rescuers Without Borders in Israel needs your support

Hello Friends,

I am writing this on Day #12 of the war. We are approaching Shabbat already. The days are going by slowly. Slowly.

I don’t recall time ever grinding to such a halt.

It is strange to be working and spreading awareness of what is going on, when it is happening to us.

Normally, our medics are helping OTHERS.

Our rescuers are heroes in another country, helping strangers with their disasters, their wars.

Everyone around me is  affected by this in a personal way. Each of us has lost someone we know, or someone who’s been injured, or someone in the army. It is all around us. For nearly everyone, a national calamity brings flashbacks of prior terror and takes its toll on the whole country.  Everyone has their own story.

Whenever there are disasters in the world, Israel comes to aid. We run to assist. In the middle of the night, across oceans, we go and we help because we care about human life and we are a light unto the nations.

Now, we are alone.

While we are confident that Hashem (G-d) is with us, we know that those who love the Jewish Nation will step up to the plate in every way.

Right now we need financial support for the supplies for our amazing volunteers, the communities of the South, and the communities who’ve given up all their medical supplies to save lives near Gaza.

Everything you give is going – 100% – to meet this need.

Please spread the word of our work, and more donations will come in.
We are seeing many people supporting us for the first time. People care, and it is making a difference!!
Thank you. Let this end in victory and bring our sons and daughters home!!!!

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The primary mission of SSF-Rescuers Without Borders is to intervene rapidly to help civilians – ordinary people – during natural disasters, accidents, attacks, and, sadly,in times of war.  And since Saturday October 7, war has been raging in Israel, where Hamas is carrying out large-scale terrorist attacks across the country.

Around a hundred SSF-Rescuers Without Borders rescue workers have raced, voluntarily, to the border areas of southern Israel. They are doing their utmost to protect and support the population directly targeted by terrorist attacks and missile strikes.

In response to this unprecedented security crisis, SSF-Rescuers Without Borders has taken the following steps toward preserving life:

•Emergency aid for hundreds of victims of the terrorist attacks in the Gaza envelope – Kfar Aza, Netivot, Sderot and Be’eri.

•Organization of evacuation of the wounded to Israeli hospitals

•Creation of a “crisis center” in Sderot to manage and coordinate the actions of our rescue workers on site;

•Support for over 670 elderly and sick people still confined to their homes and unable to reach shelters in time (shopping, delivery of medicines);

•Support for families confined to their homes, as all stores in southern Israel are closed. Distribution of over 1,250 food parcels and basic necessities (powdered milk, diapers, bread, canned goods);

•800 kg of medical supplies sent from France to replenish the equipment of our relief workers in the field and for the medical staff on site;

•Organization of travel for our rescue workers on site (transport in reinforced vehicles, accommodations, food).

Meanwhile, our volunteers are working without some of the basic security gear they need for themselves. We urgently need to protect our rescue workers, by providing them with bullet-proof vests and helmets!

We also need to provide our rescue workers with medical equipment that is out of stock in Israel (tourniquets, hemostatic dressings). We also want to replenish the equipment they took to Gaza from communities in Yehuda and Shomron, who are now themselves without first response supplies.

We ask for your support to continue this chain of solidarity and love. We all stand for preserving life, and this life-saving equipment is simply fundamental.

Thank you for your support!

Since 2001, Rescuers Without Borders (aka Hatzalah Y”osh) has been the primary supporter of volunteer medics, paramedics and ambulance drivers throughout Judea and Samaria, working in full coordination with Magen David Adom in supplying defibrillators, medical equipment, ambulances and training. Today the organization has over 1,000 volunteers also in the areas around Jerusalem and the Old City. Rescuers Without Borders and is funded completely by private donations and is a registered 501 c 3 charitable organization.
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