Jewish National Fund-USA is on the ground with communities in the south devastated by the attacks, ensuring immediate needs are met and future requirements are fulfilled. They have worked closely with these southern communities for decades. They know them better than anyone else, and will be there when they start to rebuild their lives in the future. They are our colleagues, our friends, and our family.

Dix Hills Jewish Center is supporting JNF-USA's $10 million Israel Resilience Campaign to fund these needs:

• Providing firefighting and protective equipment to manage the ongoing rocket fire which is destroying homes, farms, infrastructure, and businesses.
• Evacuating residents from the hardest-hit border communities by arranging transportation and emergency housing.
• Ensuring that displaced Israelis have all of the supplies they need including bedding, soap and shampoo, toothbrushes and toothpaste, deodorant, socks, etc.
• Providing high-quality and tailored psychological treatment for civilians, including children, who have experienced this catastrophe firsthand.
• Finding and procuring scarce security-related protective equipment

JNF-USA supports 10 Gaza Envelope communities most closely, including those hardest hit such as Sderot, Kissufim, and others. One of our communities, Kibbutz Reim was the site of the Nova Music Festival where 3,000 young people gathered to celebrate peace and music. So far 260 attendees are among those massacred by Hamas gunmen and many were kidnapped from the festival and taken hostage.

We are preparing our community partners in the north for the possibility of an expanded conflict by requisitioning portable bomb shelters for community spaces.

Israelis are feeling like this is their 9/11 – yet proportionally at a per-capita scale 6x the magnitude. This attack has decimated many communities, but they will never destroy our spirit. We stand together, as one Jewish community, ready to help Israelis in this difficult time. Am Yisrael Chai.