Frontline populations like victims of terror, immigrant combat soldiers and northern Israel’s new immigrants suffered directly. They will, for a long time, carry scars of the latest hostilities.  These populations must be supported. Together we can provide them with the support needed to cope.

This proposal is a request for your support in three programs that assist frontline populations:

1. The Jewish Agency Fund for Victims of Terror: Based upon the fund’s success in providing for terror victims during the intifada, we recently reopened the Jewish Agency’s Fund for Victims of terror to provide emergency support to the thousands of Israelis who were victims of the missile attacks in Northern Israel.
   
2. Supporting Immigrant Soldiers Who Fought in the War: These soldiers are struggling with a new language, a new society and new norms while fighting to keep us safe. This program provides direct financial support to provide immediate needs and to enable their parents that live overseas, to visit them – now when it is most important.
   
3. Educational Intervention for New Immigrant Children Living at Jewish Agency Absorption Centers in Northern Israel: It was more than frightening. The whistle of rockets overhead and the boom when they landed were enough to shake up anyone's feeling of security. For new immigrants who don't yet understand the language, or know their way around – it was horrific. This program provides new immigrant children that directly suffered from this war with auxiliary educational programs to ease their transition to school and to Israeli society in general.

Human resources that provide support to frontline communities are severely needed.  To provide these populations with an additional source of support we propose Volunteers for the Galilee a specialized 3-8 month volunteer program in the North. Activists and supporters from Jewish communities around the world will work with children and families traumatized by the conflict. In addition to assisting these communities, implementation of Volunteer for the Galilee will reinforce this generation of young Jewish adults to commitment to Israel utilizing the most successful MASA vehicle – one of the Jewish people’s most powerful tools in ensuring Jewish continuity through fortification of participants’ connection to Israel.

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