By: Staff Writers

Beyond emergency response, 2025 also demanded a longer view — one that looked past immediate crisis toward rebuilding lives, dignity and the fabric of Israeli society for the years ahead. While war and displacement shaped much of the national reality, the need for opportunity, integration and hope did not pause.

The Future and a Hope focus reflects this long-term commitment. It brings together initiatives aimed at promoting economic resilience, education, coexistence, healthcare cooperation, and care for the most vulnerable, such as children, young families, minorities, and individuals with special needs. These efforts may be quieter than emergency relief, but they are no less essential. It is laying foundations that enable communities and individuals to move forward.

The figures below provide a snapshot of how that vision took practical form over the past year — translating support and prayer into concrete investments in people, skills, and shared futures across Israel.

In 2025, the ICEJ Aid Department focused on projects in three categories: Aliyah & Integration, Israel in Crisis, and a Future and Hope. This campaign brought support, funding, care, and prayer, to hundreds of people and dozens of communities throughout Israel as the ICEJ funded 726 Aliyah flights, 16 new bomb shelters, 473 Computer kits, and transported 250,000 food parcels and 105 tons of humanitarian equipment in 2025 while investing in Gaza Envelope rebuilding projects, serving and standing with the kibbutzim most deeply damaged by October 7.

The ICEJ sponsored a Greenhouse and four classrooms at the Agro-Tech School in Sde Nitzan, an Animal Corner at the Kibbutz Urim Animal Therapy Farm, a Kindergarten and Music Therapy Center in Kibbutz Kfar Azza, and a Youth Activity Center and Ne’ot Be’eri Elderly Care Center in Kibbutz Be’eri.

Our 2025 Future and a Hope support.:

• 250,000 Food Parcels and 105 tons of humanitarian equipment delivered with two ICEJ funded trucks.

• 62 Small Businesses Supported.

• 67 Young Mothers assisted, 11 entered employment.

• 20 Babies Saved through Pro-life program support.

• 163 Arab students trained in High Tech, 55% women.

• Helping 26 Hospitals and Medical Facilities strengthen relationships between Arab and Jewish medical service providers.

• 300 Arab youth benefitted from mentoring and education programs.

• 473 Computer Kits Donated; 7 tons e-waste recycled.

• 47 Scholarships for Druze & Robotics Lab Renovation.

• Therapeutic Garden Veranda/Activity Space built for 90 special needs adults-Employment Training Program.