IFCJ

Going where the need is greatest

Yael Eckstein reflects on a year of life-saving assistance and looks ahead to expanding the IFCJ’s work in Israel and Jewish communities worldwide.

Yael Eckstein with food packages delivered to the Christian community in Syria.
Prof. Ofer Merin, IFCJ President Yael Eckstein, and Prof. Jonathan HaLevy.

Grapevine, February 13, 2026: An anti-aggression alliance

A boy plants a flag in memory of the victims of October 7.

Christian group honors October 7 victims with sweeping flag campaign

 President and CEO of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews Yael Eckstein speaks to Zvika Klein, Editor-in-Chief of the Jerusalem Post

Jerusalem Post, IFCJ launch new podcast series 'Good for the Jews? Inside Christian Zionism'


Christian-Jewish fellowship donated nine bomb shelters to Tiberias

The shelters gifted by the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews amounted to over NIS 1 million and doubled the number of shelters.

Israelis get ready to leave a public bomb shelter and go back home, following Israel-Hamas truce, in Ashkelon, Israel May 21, 2021.

Cruelest price of the war is people stopped seeing the faces of Ukrainians in turmoil

The moving faces and powerful stories have been missing from mainstream media, being mostly replaced with the financial costs of the war and updated info on new weaponry and tanks.

 THE WRITER visits an elderly member of the Jewish community in Kyiv, bringing supplies to help with the harsh winter.

Criticism of prominent rabbi’s salary may have been erased from the internet

Rabbi Yehiel Eckstein, founder of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, allegedly hired a company to protect his online reputation.

Rabbi Yehiel Eckstein greets arrivals on a 2015 Fellowship-funded aliyah flight.

Ukrainians serving as Israeli combat troops see family in Moldova

The IFCJ facilitates a meaningful reunion for Ukrainian IDF lone soldiers and their families in Moldova.

 IDF lone soldiers arrive in Chisanau Airport.

International Fellowship of Christians and Jews celebrates Israelis' 100th birthdays

The gathering was part of the With Dignity and Fellowship program, which provides elderly Israelis who do not have a support network with weekly food deliveries, medicine and other services.

 IFCJ celebrates Israelis' 100th birthdays

Jerusalem's Colel Chabad hosts German Finance Secretary

During the event, Holcher and her delegation were given a tour of Colel Chabad's headquarters and met with four Holocaust survivors who told their stories.

German State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Finance Prof. Luise Holcher visits Colel Chabad in Jerusalem.

Tel Aviv shelter to provide homes for Israel's homeless

The Gagon, which replaced a shelter demolished by the city three years ago, provides free lodging and services to the homeless, primarily substance-abuse victims, and is accessible to the disabled.

 Tel Aviv-Jaffa mayor Ron Huldai at the opening of Ha'Gagon, a new homeless shelter in Tel Aviv

IFCJ distributes 11,500 back to school supply vouchers to struggling families

The vouchers, each worth NIS 300, will ensure that children in financially strained household can still bring all of the essential equipment they need to school.

 NEW TEACHERS run a summer school, located at Alonei Yitzhak in the North, as part of the training they receive from Hotam.

Tel Aviv, IFCJ open new shelter for Israel's homeless

HaGagon's goal is to "provide a home for addicts living on the streets while maintaining a sense of human dignity," the Tel Aviv-Jaffa Municipality said.

 A homeless person sleeps in the street on Jaffa Street in downtown Jerusalem on September 23, 2020, during a nationwide lockdown

IFCJ sends emergency control units to Ashkelon following rocket-fire

Created amid Israel’s 2021 operation in Gaza, the mobile station was designed to respond to the critical needs of Israeli municipalities during missile strikes from Gaza.

 Safwan Marich, Director of the Safety and Emergency Response Division of IFCJ and Ashkelon Mayor Tomer Glam.