Michael's 30th Birthday - Israel Resilience Campaign Fundraiser
Michael Shaid
Michael Shaid
In honor of my 30th birthday, I’ve set the goal of raising $30,000 (30 for 30) for the Jewish National Fund and their Israel Resilience Campaign. My relationship with JNF is longstanding, dating back to Play 2 Plant, a gameshow fundraiser I planned in high school to support JNF's work rebuilding Mount Carmel after the devastating fires in 2010. I was also the beneficiary of an education at the Alexander Muss High School in Israel which is now under the stewardship of JNF and playing host to numerous displaced families during this most difficult time in Israel.
*****EACH DONATION RAISED WILL BE TRIPPLED BY 2 GENEROUS DONORS WHO HAVE COMMITTED TO HELP REACH MY GOAL!*****
The Jewish National Fund is on the ground with communities in the south devastated by the attacks, ensuring immediate needs are met and future requirements are fulfilled. JNF has the longstanding history of working 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. I am supporting JNF-USA's $10 million Israel Resilience Campaign to fund these needs:
-Evacuating 10,000 residents from Gaza border communities to safer places
-Providing evacuees with necessary supplies such as bedding, toiletries, clothing, etc.
-Providing high-quality psychological treatment for civilians, including children, who have experienced this catastrophe firsthand.
-Providing respite activities for the children traumatized by terror.
-Providing firefighting and protective equipment for civil defense – the first responders to community emergencies -- including radios, bulletproof vests, helmets, and tactical clothing.
-Going from home to home in the cities of Sderot, Ofakim, and Arad to help the elderly, the infirmed, and the needy with food and medicine.
-Promising to rebuild communities devastated by the attacks and keep the spirits and hopes of the people who live there, strong.
-Caring for the children whose parents are on the Ovda Airforce Base in the Negev so the parents can continue their vital work protecting our homeland.
JNF 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.
JNF has also been preparing their 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.
P.S. the photo with my family is from our first family trip to Israel (2005) and the photo of me spray painting was at the Lennon Peace Wall in Prague (2014).
*****EACH DONATION RAISED WILL BE TRIPPLED BY 2 GENEROUS DONORS WHO HAVE COMMITTED TO HELP REACH MY GOAL!*****
The Jewish National Fund is on the ground with communities in the south devastated by the attacks, ensuring immediate needs are met and future requirements are fulfilled. JNF has the longstanding history of working 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. I am supporting JNF-USA's $10 million Israel Resilience Campaign to fund these needs:
-Evacuating 10,000 residents from Gaza border communities to safer places
-Providing evacuees with necessary supplies such as bedding, toiletries, clothing, etc.
-Providing high-quality psychological treatment for civilians, including children, who have experienced this catastrophe firsthand.
-Providing respite activities for the children traumatized by terror.
-Providing firefighting and protective equipment for civil defense – the first responders to community emergencies -- including radios, bulletproof vests, helmets, and tactical clothing.
-Going from home to home in the cities of Sderot, Ofakim, and Arad to help the elderly, the infirmed, and the needy with food and medicine.
-Promising to rebuild communities devastated by the attacks and keep the spirits and hopes of the people who live there, strong.
-Caring for the children whose parents are on the Ovda Airforce Base in the Negev so the parents can continue their vital work protecting our homeland.
JNF 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.
JNF has also been preparing their 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.
P.S. the photo with my family is from our first family trip to Israel (2005) and the photo of me spray painting was at the Lennon Peace Wall in Prague (2014).
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