Donations

Nearly three years after Oct. 7, Israeli donations keep climbing as philanthropy shifts to recovery

JGive CEO Ori Ben-Shlomo says donations rose from NIS 160 million before Oct. 7 to nearly NIS 400 million last year, as Israeli philanthropy shifts from emergency relief toward rehabilitation.

JGive founder and CEO Ori Ben Shlomo.
Singer Ed Sheeran appears on NBC's "Today" show at Rockefeller Center in New York, U.S., June 6, 2023.

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Food basket distribution: Snir Association for Equal Opportunity.

Shift in public donations: Fivefold increase for mental health, drop in equipment for combat soldie

Republican US Senate candidate Mike Rogers, at left, looks on as Rabbi Asher Lopatin, the former director of Community Relations at the Jewish Federation of Greater Ann Arbor, speaks in support of his campaign in Detroit, Michigan, Aug. 20, 2026.

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Huge donation of NIS 200 million for a new rehabilitation hospital in Sde Dov

The Jusidman family from Mexico will fund a significant part of the construction of Israel's central rehabilitation center in Tel Aviv, which will replace the Reuth Hospital.

An illustration of the Jusidman Rehabilitation Hospital campus in Sde Dov

“Say thank you that you are alive, madam”: When cancer ends, life is shattered

About treatment ending, fear beginning, tears in the car alone, and rebuilding from loneliness. Dikla Shir, SHENA Center founder, writes about the day after and no survivor left alone.

Everything disappeared at once. I found myself alone. Even though I was never physically alone for a moment - I was alone with myself, with my fears and the thoughts of “Where do we go from here?” Dikla Shir.

Israel was never meant to be a gold-plated donor project - opinion

Now, for the first time in a very long time, many Jews are beginning to ask whether the old architecture was ever truly capable of carrying the future.

An Israeli flag [Ilustrative]

Charity on Jgive's platform rose 200% post-October 7, signaling digitization of Jewish philanthropy

While Diaspora donations rose by 200% since the October 7 massacre, donations on the platform from within Israel rose by 226% within the same period.

THROUGH THE JGive platform one can donate to any recognized nonprofit in Israel, Ilustration.

When Hezbollah escalated the war with a record drone assault

Northern Israel has been under immense strain. Though the headlines have faded and the fighting has subsided, thousands of families still need urgent support to rebuild.

Civilians and security forces at the scene where a missile fired by Hezbollah from Lebanon struck a parking area in Safed, causing heavy damage, April 10, 2026.

WhatsApp founder Jan Koum makes largest-ever donation to Jerusalem's Shaare Zedek hospital

With an unprecedented $200 million donation from the Koum Family Foundation, SZMC will build a huge 800-bed hospitalization tower over the next six years and fill the entire space within a decade.

Shaare Zedek’s Director-General Prof. Ofer Merin (L) and President Prof. Jonathan Halevy, previous director-general for 31 years, who solicited Koum’s donation.

Only 45% of Tel Aviv Stock Exchange companies made donations in 2025, study finds

According to ZOOOZ CEO Shlomi Turgeman, philanthropic donations made by Israel’s public companies totaled approximately NIS 800 million in 2025, representing only 10% of all charitable donations.

THE TEL AVIV Stock Exchange.

WhatsApp co-founder gives Shaare Zedek $200m in record Israeli hospital donation

The donation will fund the construction of a new medical tower at the hospital and will lead to the official renaming of the institution as Koum Shaare Zedek Medical Center.

New Shaare Zedek Hospital medical tower planned for Jerusalem.

International Good Deeds Day: 115 countries, millions of participants, sparked by 1 woman’s drive

Good Deeds Day continues to expand worldwide as the peak event of year-round doing good and volunteer activities, with hundreds of thousands of projects and millions of participants. 

 20 years of doing good: Good Deeds Day initiator Shari Arison volunteers for people with special needs in Miami

When there is nowhere safe to run

Tenufa Bakehila is racing to repair unsafe shelters across Israel as rockets fall.

Tenufa Bakehila worker making shelter safe and accessible