{"id":143526,"date":"2023-10-31T11:58:54","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T09:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.nli.org.il\/?p=143526"},"modified":"2025-09-02T13:06:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T10:06:20","slug":"when-israel-comes-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/when-israel-comes-together\/","title":{"rendered":"When Israel Comes Together"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWe need to come together and help\u201d read the Rabbi\u2019s message on the community WhatsApp group. \u201cIf anyone can house a Jewish refugee family from the North of Israel, please consider opening up your home.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Israelis sorting clothes<\/a> to give to displaced individuals, 1991, Vered Peer, the Dan Hadani Collection, the Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, the National Library of Israel<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My friend saw the message and immediately responded to the Rabbi. He had a spare room in his apartment in Jerusalem and was willing to host a displaced family.<\/p>\n

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Israeli woman cooking food<\/a> for orphaned children, 1950, World Union OSE Photos, the National Library of Israel<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But only a little while later, he received a reply from the Rabbi saying \u201cthank you for your offer, but we\u2019ve already found homes for all of the families now.\u201d My friend was confused \u2013 only 45 minutes had passed since the Rabbi had sent out his request.<\/p>\n

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Thousands of Israelis check<\/a> to see if their blood is compatible with a little boy suffering from Leukemia in order to save his life, 1993, Vered Peer, the Dan Hadani Collection, the Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, the National Library of Israel<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cOkay, let me know if I can help in any other way\u201d he wrote back, before tentatively adding another line \u201coh, and by the way, how many families did you manage to find places for?\u201d As the Rabbi\u2019s reply came through, my friend\u2019s breath caught in his throat: \u201cfive thousand.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Religious IDF soldier helps his friend<\/a> put on tefillin, 1973, David Weisfish, the Dan Hadani Collection, the Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, the National Library of Israel<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Israel has been at war since October 7, 2023. That dreadful Saturday was one of confusion and horror, and for most Israelis, the days since then have continued to be filled with terror, loss and fear.<\/p>\n

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Handing out treats to IDF soldiers<\/a>, 1985, the Dan Hadani Collection, the Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, the National Library of Israel<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The darkness of these days cannot be overstated, but at the same time the most miraculous of things have been occurring all the while.<\/p>\n

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Israeli woman donating blood<\/a>, 1978, Dani Gottfried, the Dan Hadani Collection, the Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, the National Library of Israel<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As life collapsed around us, people rose up. Communities pulled together, families started initiatives, the young and the old, people from across all the religious spectrums and political persuasions, put any differences aside and came together in the most amazing of ways.<\/p>\n

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IDF fundraising campaign<\/a>, 1980, IPPA Staff Photographer, the Dan Hadani Collection, the Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, the National Library of Israel<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The acts of kindness and charity, resistance and aid, from Israelis literally across all walks of life has been astounding.<\/p>\n

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Israel Air Force Hercules<\/a> transport plane transports 14 tons of medicine and food relief supplies, 1992, Oleg Gaspar, the Dan Hadani Collection, the Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, the National Library of Israel<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To write about them all would be impossible, for there really is no end to the acts of support happening across the country, even as you read this article.<\/p>\n

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Children selling their toys and books and donating the money for a Phantom aircraft for the Israeli Air Force (<\/span>1<\/a> \/ <\/span>2<\/a>), 1969, IPPA Staff Photographer, the Dan Hadani Collection, the Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, the National Library of Israel<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But I can tell you the story of the 22-year-old olah<\/em> (immigrant) from South Africa. She shares a small apartment with a friend, and when the war broke out their university studies were postponed. She could have spent the next month watching Netflix and seeing her friends, but instead she decided to put a message online asking for supplies to send to IDF soldiers fighting on the front lines.<\/p>\n

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8 Hercules aircrafts are loaded<\/a> with medical personnel and aid equipment including a complete field hospital, antibiotics, water, food and chemicals for water purification, 1994, Gideon Markowiz, the Dan Hadani Collection, the Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, the National Library of Israel<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Before long, people started showing up at her door, arms laden with goods. And they didn\u2019t stop. Day and night, her small apartment filled up until there was no more room to stand. The boxes she had organized were far from enough and no matter how many hours she spent packing them up, there were always more donations.<\/p>\n

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Israelis donate money<\/a> to build a new synagogue, 1923, Francois Scholten, this item is part of the Israel Archive Network project, and has been made accessible thanks to the collaborative efforts of the Yad Ben Zvi Archive, the Ministry of Jerusalem and Heritage and the National Library of Israel<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

She reached out to all of her friends and asked for help packing the boxes, and designated people to visit each local supermarket and collect their spare cardboard boxes and as many plastic bags as they would give her.<\/p>\n

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Israel offers free medical aid<\/a> to southern Lebanon residents, 1976, IPPA Staff Photographer, the Dan Hadani Collection, the Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, the National Library of Israel<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

She organized teams of other volunteers in their early 20s to take this aid from army base to army base, even when it meant going into areas which were unsafe.<\/p>\n

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Orphaned Israeli children plant trees<\/a>, 1955, World Union OSE Photos, the National Library of Israel<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As of now, this young, unassuming girl has delivered over 15,000 aid packages to soldiers across Israel. By the time you read this, the number will have risen yet again.<\/p>\n

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5,000 Israelis volunteer to clean up trash from their local beach (<\/span>1<\/a> \/ <\/span>2<\/a>), 1993, Vered Peer, the Dan Hadani Collection, the Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, the National Library of Israel<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

She is not the only person helping out our brave soldiers. It seems that everyone wants to offer a hand. In their late 60s, my friend\u2019s parents tend to err on the cautious side, so it came as a shock when my friend got a call from them saying that they were heading down to the South of Israel for the day. A woman in their community had spent two weeks at home in her kitchen cooking and freezing literally hundreds of nutritious and hearty homecooked meals for soldiers, and needed help delivering them to bases.<\/p>\n

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Raising money on the streets of Tel Aviv<\/a> for IDF soldiers during the Yom Kippur War, 1973, Boris Karmi, the Meitar Collection, the Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, the National Library of Israel<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My friend waited for an update all day, and eventually as dusk fell, she got a call from her mother. \u201cSorry it took me so long to call you darling, we had to go to so many army bases! No one wanted us!\u201d<\/p>\n

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Israeli man donating blood,<\/a> 1978, Dani Gottfried, the Dan Hadani Collection, the Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, the National Library of Israel<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My friend thought she had misheard \u2013 who wouldn\u2019t want platters of spaghetti bolognese and stir-fried vegetables? \u201cThe soldiers have been receiving so much food and so many volunteers that they simply don\u2019t have room for any more!\u201d<\/p>\n

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Israeli volunteers cleaning up debris<\/a> following an Iraqi missile strike that hit Ramat Gan during the Gulf War, 1991, Danny Lev, the Dan Hadani Collection, the Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, the National Library of Israel<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My friend laughed, and asked what her mother meant. \u201cWell,\u201d her mother replied \u201cat the first base we went to, their commander sent us away because his soldiers had enough donated food to last them into the next decade \u2013 he was worried that his troops would all get too fat and not be able to fight\u2026 and as we went from base to base each commander told us the same thing.”<\/p>\n

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Israel sends over 20 tons of humanitarian supplies<\/a>, including <\/span>medical equipment, drugs and clothes<\/a> to the Bosnian people, 1995, Beni Birk, the Dan Hadani Collection, the Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, the National Library of Israel<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“Volunteers have been arriving all day and night to lend a hand and distribute food, and they simply can\u2019t take any more. Don\u2019t worry, we got rid of our food eventually, but by the end of the day we were nearly forcing the schnitzels into the soldiers\u2019 hands!\u201d<\/p>\n

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Hundreds of volunteers take a break<\/a> to eat after helping to build the new settlement of Sebastiya, 1975, IPPA Staff Photographer, the Dan Hadani Collection, the Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, the National Library of Israel<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

These stories may sound phenomenal but they are not unique. Not at all.<\/p>\n

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Soldiers enjoying free refreshments provided by the residents of Netanya <\/span>(1<\/a> \/ 2),<\/a> 1974, IPPA Staff Photographer, the Dan Hadani Collection, the Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, the National Library of Israel<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Right now, there are over 200 American girls in a seminary who chose not to flee and return to the USA when war broke out in Israel, instead deciding to stick around and run a free daily children\u2019s camp for displaced Jewish children from Gaza border communities.<\/p>\n

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Jerusalem residents receive aid<\/a> from the Rabbi Maier Baal Haneis charity, 1955. This item is part of the Israel Archive Network project, and has been made accessible thanks to the collaborative efforts of the Yad Ben Zvi Archive, the Ministry of Jerusalem and Heritage and the National Library of Israel<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Right now, there are teams of haredi men sitting in my husband\u2019s yeshiva dying sheets of material army-green and tying tzitzit at their corners so that the IDF soldiers can wear ritual Jewish clothing even when camouflaged.<\/p>\n

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Israeli volunteers fundraising for IDF soldiers<\/a>, 1980, IPPA Staff Photographer, the Dan Hadani Collection, the Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, the National Library of Israel<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Right now, there are weddings being organized on army bases as soldiers choose to get married amidst the chaos surrounding them. Photographers, dress-makers, rabbis, caterers and more offer their services for free to make these extraordinary celebrations happen, even at a few days\u2019 notice.<\/p>\n

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Israelis collect clothes<\/a> for Armenians who were made homeless after an earthquake, 1989, Vered Peer, the Dan Hadani Collection, the Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, the National Library of Israel<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Right now, there is a growing group of kohanim on call 24\/7 to offer a priestly blessing to any soldiers entering Gaza.<\/p>\n

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Elderly man volunteers in the IDF,<\/a> 1975, Oskar Tauber, the Dan Hadani Collection, the Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, the National Library of Israel<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Right now, therapists across the country are offering free sessions day and night to those traumatized by the war.<\/p>\n

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IDF soldiers help out<\/a> with 1,500 Soviet immigrants to Israel, 1990, Danny Lev, the Dan Hadani Collection, the Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, the National Library of Israel<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Right now, people are queuing from morning to evening to donate blood at hospitals around Israel, and medical staff are even turning people away as the lines to donate get too long.<\/p>\n

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Israeli radio station holds fundraiser<\/a> for the IDF, 1980, IPPA Staff Photographer, the Dan Hadani Collection, the Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, the National Library of Israel<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Right now, women are on call from different communities across the country to pause their lives at any given moment and accompany laboring women in their births while their husbands are away fighting in the army.<\/p>\n

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Young volunteers build a new youth center<\/a>, 1938, the Israel Archive Network Project, and has been made accessible thanks to the collaborative efforts of the Yad Ben Zvi Archive, the Ministry of Jerusalem and Heritage and the National Library of Israel<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Right now, thousands of shekels are being donated to the war effort by anyone who has a penny to spare.<\/p>\n

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Elderly man receives a hot lunch<\/a> from charity workers in Jerusalem, 1968, Rolf Kneller, Euvre de Secours aux Enfants, the National Library of Israel<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Right now, professionals from every field are offering their skills for free to anyone who needs them.<\/p>\n

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IDF gives free medical aid<\/a> to southern Lebanon residents, 1976, IPPA Staff Photographer, the Dan Hadani Collection, the Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, the National Library of Israel<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Right now, the IDF army draft is at more than 100% due to people volunteering to fight despite having no obligation to.<\/p>\n

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Deputy Prime Minister Yigal Allon volunteers to build shelters in Kiryat Shmona<\/a>, 1969, Yakov Elbaz, the Dan Hadani Collection, the Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, the National Library of Israel<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Right now, Israel is the only country to have more of its citizens return rather than leave during a war.<\/p>\n

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The Ministry of Agriculture sends tons of food<\/a> aid to Soviet Union Hospitals, 1990, Roni Shitzer, the Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, the National Library of Israel<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Right now, despite fighting for our very existence, Israel has never been stronger.<\/p>\n

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Two IDF soldiers are married (the groom was recovering from an injury, the bride served in the navy) <\/span>(1<\/a> \/ <\/span>2),<\/a> 1971, IPPA Staff Photographer, the Dan Hadani Collection, the Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, the National Library of Israel<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We hope and pray that these good deeds will no longer be needed in the days to come, as Israel returns to a state of peace. But in the meantime, we want to recognize every person who is helping the country stand tall, and we continue to wish for the safety and success of Israel and all of her remarkable citizens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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