The headlines may change. Their child’s illness does not.
For families in Israel caring for a seriously ill child every day is still a crisis
Home Is Overwhelming.
The Hospital Is Exhausting.
No parent should have to choose
between staying beside their sick child
and keeping their home together
Help a family breathe.
Give Relief at Home
and in the Hospital
When Support Stops, Families Fall Through the Cracks
A national food program supporting tens of thousands of families in Israel has run out of funding.
For most families, this is frightening.
For families caring for a seriously ill child, it can be devastating.
Because now, parents are forced to choose:
Food or bills.
Home or hospital.
Survival or stability.
With food costs rising and support disappearing, families already stretched by serious illness are being pushed even closer to the edge.
When support stops, you can step in.
Help a family keep going — when they need it most.
When Illness Changes Everything
Most families are managing ordinary life — school runs, work, busy evenings, bills, and Shabbat meals around a full table — until serious illness turns everything upside down.
Suddenly, appointments replace routines.
Fear moves in.
Exhaustion takes over.
Parents spend their strength caring for a sick child while trying to hold the rest of the family together.
For families already carrying the weight of war, rising costs, and lost support, serious illness becomes even harder to bear.
Or Lacholeh provides practical and emotional support at home and in the hospital, so families do not have to face it alone.
And when support systems fall away, your help becomes even more critical.
Emergency Home
and Hospital Support
Right now, more families than ever are turning to Or Lacholeh for help.
Many parents caring for seriously ill children are unable to work, even as basic expenses continue to rise. Income disappears just as costs begin to grow.
Families who once managed comfortably may suddenly find themselves calculating every grocery item, while doing all they can to protect their dignity.
They need practical help, emotional support, and relief they can feel every day.
Your gift helps provide:
- Hot meals
- Groceries
- Shabbos care packages
- Hospital distributions
- Household help
- Appliances and furniture
- Emotional therapy
- Tutoring
- Critical family support
So parents can focus on their child — not on survival.
Give a family the support they need to keep going.
Your gift today helps replace the support families have just lost.
When a child is seriously ill, the pressure on a family is immediate.
Your gift today helps provide urgent home and hospital support for families in crisis.
$54
Helps provide emergency hot
meals or Shabbos care packages
$100
Helps provide essential groceries or hospital distributions
$180
Helps provide household help or home and hospital care essentials
$250
Helps provide emotional therapy, tutoring, or practical family support
$500
Helps provide furniture, appliances, or critical support for a family in crisis
$800
Helps provide comprehensive home and hospital support to help a family keep going
When everything around a family is uncertain, monthly support creates stability.
Serious illness doesn’t end after one treatment or hospital stay. Families need ongoing support as they try to hold everything together.
Monthly support allows Or Lacholeh to be there consistently—with meals, home and hospital support, emotional care, and practical relief throughout the year.
$18
/month
Helps provide ongoing support for families facing serious illness
$36
/month
Helps build toward practical home or hospital relief for a family in crisis
$54
/month
Helps sustain year-round support for families who cannot carry this burden alone
$136
/month
(12-month commitment)
Adopt a Family
Give a family facing serious illness stability for an entire year.
Give a family facing serious illness ongoing support with meals, therapy, tutoring, holiday and Shabbos care, practical help, and meaningful moments of joy.
You’ll receive updates from the family, a message from the family, and a surprise or two.
Names and faces of clients are protected to respect family privacy.
Support for the Days
No One Can Prepare For
When serious illness turns a family’s life upside down, the entire family is affected. Or Lacholeh provides the practical help, emotional care, and ongoing support families need to get through the days no one can prepare for.
Through our network of care, we help lighten the physical, emotional, and financial burden so parents and caregivers can focus on healing and caring for the people who need them most.
The Impact of Your Support
92,000
Hot Meals Delivered
2,250
Families Supported
350 Families Received
Household Essentials
Serious illness doesn’t end after a hospital visit. For many families, the financial and emotional strain continues for months, sometimes years.
Or Lacholeh provides quiet, dignity-preserving support that helps families keep functioning through that time — along with moments of relief and hope that help them keep going.
Because no family should face serious illness alone.
Your gift helps hold a family together.
Give meals, household help, and hospital support.
What Your Donation Makes Possible
Crisis Relief
Emergency meals, food, clothing, and shopping vouchers — when families have nowhere else to turn.
Healing & Growth
Therapy and tutoring that rebuild confidence, restore hope, and strengthen futures.
Comprehensive Support
Ongoing home and hospital support, essential furnishings, and household help — month after month.
Dream Fulfillment
Making wishes come true and celebrating birthdays — moments of joy that carry children and families through the hardest days
Respite & Relief
Day outings, short getaways, live entertainment, fun days, and community events — giving families space to breathe, recharge, and reconnect.
Shabbos & Yom Tov (Holiday) Support
Shabbos care packages, vouchers, holiday help, and essential support that bring comfort, dignity, and stability during the hardest times.
Families in Crisis Across Israel Can’t Wait
Help Families Keep Going
Illness doesn’t end when families leave the hospital.
When a parent stops working to care for a sick child, everyday needs quickly fall out of reach.
Or Lacholeh steps in — bringing food, relief, and chesed (acts of kindness) families can rely on. families can rely on.
The need is immediate. Families cannot do this alone.
Because relief means:
A full Shabbat table.
A calmer home.
A supported parent.
A child and family who feel cared for.
Give now so no family faces serious illness alone.
Ready to help a family in crisis?
Your support gives families facing serious illness the relief, dignity,
and practical help they need to keep going.
Choose your impact—honor someone, give monthly, or sponsor a program.
Every gift brings hope, healing, and dignity to Israeli families facing illness.
Do the mitzvah of bikur cholim.
Take action today.
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