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Helping Hand Coalition
“Comfort, comfort my people, says your GOD…” (Isaiah 40:1)
FOUNDATION
🔸 Helping Hand Coalition is a Foundation registered in Israel in 2007 | עמותת יד לעזרה ישראל | Israeli Reg. Nr.580.476.794
🔸 Founders
- Rafi Malachi (Israel)
- Dr. Andre Gasiorowski, Bozena Gasiorowski | Global Relief Network (Israel)
- Roger West | God’s Grace International (USA)
- Klaus Dewald | Global Aid Network (GAiN Germany)
- Harald Eckert | Christians for Israel (Germany)
- Ron Robertson (Germany)
🔸 To expand Helping Hand Coalition’s international activities, several international entities were established:
- Helping Hand GLOBAL FORUM (Israel) as an international Confederation, associating 250+ other related Israeli and international organizations representing activities in Israel and 180 countries worldwide (2012, Israel)
- Foundation American Friends of Helping Hand Coalition (2013, USA)
- Foundation Keren Global Forum for Israel (2017, Israel)
- Foundation Helping Hand Global Forum Pfc (2017, USA)
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PURPOSE
🔸 Supporting people in need living in Israel:
- Victims of terror
- Holocaust survivors
- Senior citizens in need
- IDF soldiers| Hungry
- Invalides | Lonely
- Underprivileged
- Victims of natural disasters
🔸 Projects
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Membership organizations
Members of Helping Hand Global Forum: regional organizations of Holocaust Survivors (cities, representatives, number of members) representing around 10,000 victims of the Holocaust
- Acco | Claudia Alexandrovna Shapovalenko | 208 members
- Arad | Lev Arons | 200 members
- Ashdod 1 | Vladimir Listengarten | 800 members
- Ashdod 2 | Sonia Klimentieva | 300 members
- Ashdod 3 | Aaron Molotkovsky | 286 members
- Beer Sheva | Boris Kholondovsky | 280 members
- Beit Shemesh 1 | Boris Dashevski | 400 members
- Beit Shemesh 2 | Elizabeta Gurvich | 200 members
- Dimona | Elena Kovaleva | 282 members
- Hadera | Sima Fedosoff | 270 members
- Holon | Eduard Mendelevich | 245 members
- Haifa | Margaryta Pugachewsky | 716 members
- Jerusalem | Yaacov Liberman | 1,200 members
- Karmiel | Lev Tzimkovski | 350 members
- Kiryat Bialik | Igor Bekker | 75 members
- Lod | Rachel Shapiro | 300 members
- Maalot | Leonid Piszczanski | 130 members
- Migdal HaEmeq | Roman Tabacznikov | 175 members
- Netanya 1 | Mila Fleitman | 800 members
- Netanya 2 | Mila Kornish | 140 members
- Netanya 4 | Mila Kornish | 100 members
- Netanya 3 | Rita Liberman | 60 members
- Netivot | Fruma Nedashkowski | 30 members
- Ofakim | Esfir Davidov | 300 members
- Or Akiva 1 | Mark Yoffe | 74 members
- Or Akiva 2 | Sofia Miedvinska | 20 members
- Rehovot | Iliya Petrushevskiy | 370 members
- Rishon LeZion | Evgenia Tsofin | 180 members
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ACTIVITIES IN ISRAEL
Acco • Afula • Arad • Ariel • Ashdod • Ashkelon • Atlit • Bat Yam • Beer Sheva • Beit She’an • Beitar Illit • Bet Shemen • Bet Shemesh • Bethlehem • Binyamina • Bnei Ayish • Bnei Brak • Bustan HaGalil • Dalyat al-Karmel • Eilat • Gedera • Hadassa Neurim • Hadera • Haifa • Holon • Jerusalem • Khorfish • Kanot • Karmiel • Katzrin • Kfar Hasidim • Kfar Saba • Kharish • Kibbutz Alumim • Kiryat Ata • Kiryat Bialik • Kiryat Gat • Kiryat Malachi • Kiryat Menahem • Karmiel • Kiryat Motzkin • Kiryat Ono • Kiryat Shmona • Kiryat Yam • Maalot • Migdal HaEmek • Modiin • Naharyiah • Nesher • Netanya • Netivot • Nof HaGalil • Ofakim • Or Akiva • Pardes Hana • Petach Tiqua • Poriyah • Ramat Gan • Ramle • Rehovot • Rishon LeZion • Sderot • Shlomi • Tel Aviv • Tiberias • Tirat Karmiel • Tzvat • Yavne • Yehud • Yeruham • Yokneam • Zikhron Yaakov
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PARTNERS
Joined projects of Helping Hand Coalition with the following partners (from 2007 till today):
Israel
- Israeli state: Israeli Knesset, Ministry of Culture & Sport, Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Immigration and Absorption, Ministry for Social Equality, Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services, Ministry of Tourism
- Institutions: Yad Vashem, The Armored Corps Memorial Site and Museum at Latrun, Chaim Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer
- Non-Profit Organizations: Israeli Dental Association (IDA), Jewish Agency for Israel, Joint Distribution Committee, Keren HaYesod (United Israel Appeal (UIA), Keren Global Forum for Israel, YAHAD – United for Israel’s Soldiers (UFIS), Western Wall Heritage Foundation
- Ministries: Crystal Forum, Daily Israel, Joseph Project, Radiant Group International
- Diplomatic: Embassy of Russia, Embassy of Belarussia, Embassy of Ukraine, Embassy of Uzbekistan, Embassy of Kazakhstan
- Municipalities: Ashdod, Ashkelon, Hadera, Haifa, Jerusalem, Netanya, Or Akiva, Rishon LeZion, Yoknam
Supported organizations in Israel
- Amutat Iftach, Amutat She’arim
- Association of Belarus Immigrants (White Russia) in Israel
- Association of Concentration Camps and Ghetto Survivors
- Association of Disabled Citizens (“Nitgaber”)
- Association of Immigrants from the Caucasus in Israel
- Association of Lithuania Immigrants in Israel
- Association of Ukrainian Immigrants in Israel
- Association of Wounded Soldiers and Partisans Who Fought the Nazis
- Front of Respect (Hazit HaKavod)
- Holocaust Children for the Future
- Israeli Association of Refugee Victims of the Disaster
- Lift Up Your Head Church, Union of Chornobyl Liquidators
- Veterans Union of World War II – Fighters Against Nazism
- World Federation of Moroccan Jewry
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