The Alisa Flatow Memorial Scholarship Fund provides scholarship assistance for post-high school study of Judaism in Israel. Scholarships are available to men and women and are awarded on a competitive basis. The intention of the Alisa Flatow Memorial Scholarship Fund is for it to be especially valuable to those students showing academic promise in their religious studies and the need for financial assistance to pursue study in Israel. Study can be in programs that earn college credits. Programs must be at institutions with a 501(c)3 tax-exempt status and must have an American affiliate mailing address. 

American Friends of Magen David Adom (AFMDA) – ARMDI supports the lifesaving efforts of Magen David Adom (MDA) in Israel as the tax-exempt fundraising organization representing MDA in the United States. Although it receives no government-budgeted funding, the MDA team of trained volunteer and professional medical responders is mandated by the Knesset to provide the entire nation’s pre-hospital emergency medical care, including disaster, ambulance and blood services. The MDA National Blood Services Center provides 100% of the blood needs of the Israel Defense Forces and 95% of the blood needs of Israel’s hospitals. AFMDA supporters built the MDA National Blood Services Center, continue to build or renovate many of MDA’s emergency medical stations throughout Israel, and supply MDA with a wide range of emergency medical supplies, equipment and ambulances. Most of the 800 MDA ambulances and Mobile Intensive Care Units that are on call 24/7, logging nearly ten million miles and caring for 550,000 patients annually, were donated by AFMDA.

American Friends of Magen David Adom (AFMDA) – ARMDI supports the lifesaving efforts of Magen David Adom (MDA) in Israel as the tax-exempt fundraising organization representing MDA in the United States. Although it receives no government-budgeted funding, the MDA team of trained volunteer and professional medical responders is mandated by the Knesset to provide the entire nation’s pre-hospital emergency medical care, including disaster, ambulance and blood services. The MDA National Blood Services Center provides 100% of the blood needs of the Israel Defense Forces and 95% of the blood needs of Israel’s hospitals. AFMDA supporters built the MDA National Blood Services Center, continue to build or renovate many of MDA’s emergency medical stations throughout Israel, and supply MDA with a wide range of emergency medical supplies, equipment and ambulances. Most of the 800 MDA ambulances and Mobile Intensive Care Units that are on call 24/7, logging nearly ten million miles and caring for 550,000 patients annually, were donated by AFMDA.

American Friends of Magen David Adom (AFMDA) – ARMDI supports the lifesaving efforts of Magen David Adom (MDA) in Israel as the tax-exempt fundraising organization representing MDA in the United States. Although it receives no government-budgeted funding, the MDA team of trained volunteer and professional medical responders is mandated by the Knesset to provide the entire nation’s pre-hospital emergency medical care, including disaster, ambulance and blood services. The MDA National Blood Services Center provides 100% of the blood needs of the Israel Defense Forces and 95% of the blood needs of Israel’s hospitals. AFMDA supporters built the MDA National Blood Services Center, continue to build or renovate many of MDA’s emergency medical stations throughout Israel, and supply MDA with a wide range of emergency medical supplies, equipment and ambulances. Most of the 800 MDA ambulances and Mobile Intensive Care Units that are on call 24/7, logging nearly ten million miles and caring for 550,000 patients annually, were donated by AFMDA.

Israel office:

1 Ibn Gvirol St., PO Box 7171

Jerusalem, Israel

Tel: 011-972-02-620-2754

Fax: 011-972-02-620-4040

Contact: Amir Shacham,

director, Israel Operations

UJC’s Israel and Overseas Committee annually allocates funds raised by the UJA Campaign to strengthen Israel and assist Jews in need throughout the world. The funding supports our partner agencies — the Jewish Agency for Israel and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. Through support of these agencies and of many individual projects, UJC is able to touch the lives of countless Jews. The committee maintains key relationships with sister communities in Israel — Ofakim-Merchavim (Partnership 2000), Rishon LeZion, Ra’anana, Kibbutz Erez, Gush Etzion, and Horfesh — as well as Cherkassy, Ukraine. UJC also maintains an Israel office that plays a key role in the implementation and oversight of many Israel programs.

Key initiatives include Operation Atzmaut, our program to give Ethiopian youth in Rishon LeZion a greater chance for success in life; Partnership 2000, through which we are moving Ofakim and Merchavim forward; enriched school day and youth futures to enhance educational opportunity for Israeli youth; hunger relief for elderly Jews in the former Soviet Union; and support for religious pluralism in Israel to create a vibrant diversity of Jewish expression in Israel.

The mission of the IPC is to strengthen the relationship between the MetroWest community and the land and people of Israel. The IPC offers community programming, cultural activities, educational programs and activities, aliyah information, and trips to Israel for teens, college students, and adults. 

Development Corporation for Israel/State of Israel Bonds offers securities issued by the government of Israel. Since its inception in 1951, Israel Bonds has secured $31 billion in investment capital for the development of every aspect of Israel’s economy, including agriculture, commerce, and industry. Throughout its history, Israel has maintained a perfect record on the payment of principal and interest on the securities it has issued. Israel Bonds proceeds play an important role in absorbing immigrants to Israel and in providing crucial financial resources to Israel for a new era of promise and opportunity.