Feeding the Families Left Behind by the Headlines

Dear Friends,

The war with Iran is no longer a distant headline scrolling across a screen. For families across Israel, it is the reality they wake up to every morning and carry with them to bed each night. And while so much of the world’s attention remains fixed on the front lines, there is another story unfolding quietly in living rooms, kitchens, and shelters throughout this nation. It is lonelier. It is harder to photograph. And it is breaking the hearts of parents who never imagined they would need help to feed their children.

We are writing to you today because the need in Israel is shifting. The war has not ended, and its weight is no longer being borne by soldiers and their families alone. It is being carried by mothers who are rationing what is left in the pantry. By fathers whose small businesses shuttered when the sirens sounded. By grandparents trying to comfort grandchildren who flinch at every loud noise. By teenagers who have not sat in a classroom in weeks and are quietly grieving the loss of a normal life.

These families are not statistics. They are our neighbors. The dental assistant, the carpenter, the preschool teacher, the delivery driver, the accountant. They are people who once had stable lives and who now find themselves in need of basics, embarrassed and exhausted, wondering aloud how it came to this.

In communities across northern Israel, the toll has been especially severe. Life there has been disrupted in ways that are hard to imagine. Many were evacuated from their homes months ago and remain displaced, living in hotels, temporary housing, or with relatives in crowded apartments. Others stayed and watched their livelihoods evaporate as shops closed, tourism collapsed, and regular customers vanished. Schools have been intermittent at best. Basic goods have grown scarce. Families are facing shortages of essential food and household supplies, the kind of daily staples most of us take for granted without a second thought.

Our team has seen this firsthand. We have held the hands of elderly Israelis who survived one war only to find themselves living through another. And we have prayed quietly with young couples whose voices cracked with exhaustion as they whispered their fears about the future.

While we continue to support our soldiers and first responders, the growing need now is for civilians. Ordinary families. Parents, children, and elderly individuals who are quietly struggling to hold their lives together. We are preparing to deliver food packages and basic necessities to those in the most urgent need, beginning in the communities where the instability has hit hardest.

Food aid is one of the most immediate and tangible ways to bring relief. It means a parent does not have to apologize to their children for an empty pantry. It means a young couple can stop lying awake at night counting what is left in the bank account.

More than calories, a food package carries a message. It tells a weary family that someone sees them. That someone remembers them. That they have not been forgotten in the noise of headlines and the busyness of the wider world.
We are asking you today to help us reach these families.

Your gift, whatever size it may be, will go directly toward purchasing and distributing food packages and basic supplies to those hardest hit by the ongoing war. Every family reached is a life steadied, a burden eased, a small restoration of dignity in the middle of a long and frightening season.

Would you consider giving? Please give today and dedicate your gift to Aid to the Poor. Your compassion will cross the ocean and land exactly where it is needed most.

Scripture reminds us that when we give to the poor, we are lending to the Lord Himself. There is no higher calling, no truer worship, than to open our hands to those who are suffering. And in this hour, the suffering is real, and the need is urgent.

We are so grateful for every one of you who stands with Israel in prayer and in practical support. Your faithfulness is a light in a dark time. You are not merely donors. You are partners in the work God is doing here, and your love is felt in homes across this land every single day.


With love and gratitude,

Barry & Batya