The summer months have begun with good news in Israel as the government continues to ease restrictions and reopen its economy. Many of whom have been unemployed for months are getting back to work and adjusting back to normal life. Additionally, many of the restrictions that inhibited Meir Panim’s ability to care for the needy are being lifted.    This week, Israel has granted all restaurants to reopen which mea...

Israel is slowly starting to loosen up its restrictions, businesses and schools are beginning to open and some employees are able to return to work.  After almost three months in quarantine, we are finally able to reopen our After School Neighborhood Youth Center in Neviim! However, there are still restrictions that we are enforcing in our Centers to ensure that it’s a safe atmosphere. All teens have to wear masks and t...

Since the outbreak of COVID-19, there have been regulations to self-isolate, practice social distancing and some were forced into mandatory quarantine. These past few months have taken a toll on everyone, so news that Israel is relaxing some restrictions, was of course welcome. While social distancing rules are still in place, citizens in Israel are now able to travel away from home. Our staff at the Ben Gurion Youth Center in Sderot were quick to take advantag...

Throughout the State of Israel, IDF soldiers are treated like family and looked after by grateful residents. They are not viewed merely as anonymous military figures, but as sons and daughters, husbands and wives, mothers and fathers. Israelis deeply appreciate the sacrifice made by IDF officers, and this gratitude is especially pronounced around Yom Hazikaron and Yom Haatzmaut (Israeli Memorial Day and Independence Day). This profound sense of gratitude was compounded this year because of th...

Yom Hazikaron (Israel’s Memorial Day) is always the most solemn day on the calendar in the Jewish State. Residents throughout the State of Israel would ordinarily visit military cemeteries to honor the 23,816 IDF soldiers and victims of terror, who paid the ultimate sacrifice on behalf of the safety and security of the Jewish People. This year, the Coronavirus has prevented this hallowed tradition from taking place and the Israeli government has closed military cemeteries on Yom Hazikaron to ...

To ensure proper protection, Meir Panim has been trying to secure masks for their staff and volunteers to use in our facilities. But supplies are scarce and the search for new masks came up empty. The shortage had only intensified after Prime Minister’s Netanyahu’s new regulations that instructed everyone to wear a mask while outside of their homes, which prompted citizens across the country to scramble to find the last ones available. Read more >>

Meir Panim wants to send a big thank you for a very special donation we received this week.  A donor from New York, who has a special connection to a particular school in Tzefat, wanted to do something special for their students. This isn’t just any school, this is a school that caters to children that come from troubled and needy families.  To ensure that no student would have...