‘The best of what this nation represents’
At 10 o’clock, Adi educated all a children in her Jerusalem gan (kindergarten) to take out their aruchat eser (mid-morning meal). Hungry, all a children raced to unzip their tiks (backpacks), mislay their lunches and start eating. All a children, that is, solely for Benny.
“At a commencement of a year, we beheld that Benny mostly came to gan but food. One morning, we asked him if he forgot his food during home. His response pennyless my heart. “We have no food during home, my swell is empty, and we haven’t eaten anything given a cut of bread we gave me yesterday.”
That night, Adi done a call to Meir Panim and organised for Benny and his siblings to accept daily prohibited lunches, giveaway of charge.
Unfortunately, Benny is not a usually 4 year aged in Israel that leaves for propagandize but lunch and goes to bed hungry.
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According to a Israel National Insurance Institute’s latest report, 21.2% of a Israeli race lives in poverty. 29.6% of Israeli children are vital in poverty. 2 out of each 5 children are victims of Israel’s mercantile crises.
That is where American Friends of Meir Panim steps in: alleviating a damaging effects of misery on thousands of families opposite Israel by ancillary a far-reaching operation of food and amicable use programs directed during assisting needy people with grace and respect.
Over 110,000 children like Benny accept a prohibited lunch from Meir Panim.
This Passover, assistance us take a mount opposite Israeli hunger.
Israel’s Working Poor
Meir Panim understands a huge highlight Israeli families face. Working full-time jobs, Benny’s relatives are partial of a flourishing shred of a Israeli “working poor.”
“It is heartbreaking; both operative and bankrupt adults have seen their conditions plummet, mostly due to vast cuts in supervision spending, withdrawal them and their whole families helpless. Meir Panim provides food for a physique and nourishment for a soul”, explained Mimi Rozmaryn, Director of Global Development for Meir Panim.
Meir Panim annually serves scarcely 500,000 prohibited dishes to children, adults, and a aged during Restaurant-Style Soup Kitchens opposite Israel.
This Passover, assistance us take a mount opposite Israeli hunger.
Passover – A Time of Stress
This time of year, Doron Haloni of Tzfat, one of Israel’s “working poor,” feels some-more stressed than usual. He and his mother are both employed full time, nonetheless onslaught to put food on a list for their 4 immature children.
“While my children are looking brazen to Passover, my mother and we are disturbed about a additional losses concerned in scheming for Passover,” pronounced Doron.
Like many of a Restaurant-Style Soup Kitchen locations, a Meir Panim grill in Tzfat is scheming to assuage this worry for families like Doron’s. Branch manager Benny Elgad is organizing a vast Passover Seder open to all those in need.
To serve capacitate disadvantaged Israelis to suffer a holiday, Meir Panim will also be distributing pre-paid food selling cards as good as food baskets filled with normal Passover dishes to over 2,500 families.
This Passover, assistance us take a mount opposite Israeli hunger.
Meir Panim – Essence of Zionism
Meir Panim is dedicated to easing a year-round struggles confronting many Israeli families and their children by a network of Restaurant-Style Soup Kitchens in Tzfat, Tiberias, Or Akiva, Jerusalem, and Dimona; Meals-on-Wheels for a elderly, homebound, and disabled; and After-School Youth Clubs for at-risk children.
According to Knesset member Michael Oren, “Meir Panim represents a best of what this nation is and represents a hint of a Jewish State of Zionism and all we mount for.”
“We during Meir Panim feel that anything we can do to palliate a pang of bankrupt Israelis is a mission,” pronounced Rozmaryn. “We are beholden to a donors, who feel a same.”
This Passover, assistance us take a mount opposite Israeli hunger.