Ensuring a Joyous Holiday for Israel’s Neediest

Supporting Needy Families with Passover Essentials (April, 2017) With the funds donated by our generous readers and supporters, Israel365 partnered with the organization Bridges for Peace in giving dozens of packages filled with Passover essentials of food and Judaica to more than 100 needy families living in Northern Israel. Israel365’s Director of Christian Relations Donna […]

Planting Trees in the Holy Land

 Planting Trees in Bat Ayin (May, 2017) Just hours prior to the start of the holiday of Shavuot, when we celebrate the giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai seven weeks after the miracle of the Exodus from Egypt, the participants of the HaYovel Rejoice Jerusalem Tour to Israel met with Amnon, a farmer in […]

Video: Israel Just Brought this Ancient Plant Back to Life

Methuselah, the Judean Date Palm – links the past to the present through agriculture and archeology. One of the world’s most ancient species, it is being revived after 2,000 years at the Center for Sustainable Agriculture in Israel.

Enrich the Lives of Israel’s Holocaust Survivors

Presenting a Restoration Ring to a Holocaust Survivor (June, 2017) As part of a two-week tour to Israel with the organization HaYovel, a group of 30 people, including Israel365’s Rabbi Tuly Weisz and Donna Jollay, joined Dean Bye, Founder of Return Ministries, at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum as he presented one special Holocaust Survivor, […]

PHOTOS: Israel365 Welcomes New Immigrants Home to Israel

Israel365 gave a warm “Shalom” and welcome home to a number of Olim (new immigrants) who landed at Ben Gurion airport as part of the Nefesh B’Nefesh August flight, including their 50,000th newcomer. Thanks to the generosity of Israel365 readers who participated in our “Aliyah Campaign”, Rabbi Tuly Weisz presented gift bags to a number […]

The Ninth of Av: Throwing the Keys Up to Heaven

When offering words of comfort to a mourner we reference the destruction of the Temple. The traditional invocation expresses our wish that the mourner be comforted “among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem”. It is generally understood that the two are connected because they both represent intense sadness and great loss. Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik […]