Tzedakah (Charity) Directory
Atlas Juniors
Kids and Students
Atlas Juniors provides opportunities for Israeli students to work with Israeli tech companies. Many of their students witnessed the October 7 massacre, and have since been displaced from their homes. Atlas Juniors has added resilience and mental health programming to help their students move forward. In addition to financial support, they also seek partners to offer mental health and related services.
Israel Women’s Network
Mental health and social services
IWN has expanded its hotline to provide women who have lost their jobs or can’t work due to the war with guidance on accessing government resources and information on their legal rights. IWN helps lead efforts to connect 100s of women’s organizations across Israel to provide a unified voice on the inclusion of women in key decision-making roles and negotiations.
Taglit-Birthright Israel
Mental health and social services
Features as the single most important bridge to Israel for hundreds of thousands of Jewish young adults between 18 26 years-of-age. Birthright is standing hand in hand with the families of Southern and Northern Israel sponsoring the temporary relocation of 90 families from the south in hotels in Jerusalem, at full board accommodation.
Hands On Tzedakah (“HOT”)
Mental health and social services
A 4-star Charity Navigator public charity with a 20+ year history, has an extensive network of partners on the ground in Israel that it works with year-round to provide a variety of social impact programs. HOT immediately responded to the current crisis by coordinating with its partners on the ground to provide assistance and necessities to many Victims of War and Terror.
The Public Forum
Mental health and social services
Was founded in 2012, at the initiative of Avi Naor, a social entrepreneur and Laureate of the Israel Prize. The forum is a professional and philanthropic collaboration that advances and cater to Israel’s youth villages and boarding schools. It removes the state’s responsibility for promoting the students and alumni of external-to-home educational frameworks. During the national emergency, the Public Forum is directing all of its energies towards providing immediate assistance to the thousands of children and youth in these frameworks and the staff who are with them.