These are complex,painful days. Israel is engaged in a difficult battle. As our hearts are bleeding in the face of the terrible news that we are witnessing,
Ezer Mizion is mobilizing in full force, as one man with one heart.
Our professional and administrative team work side by side with our corps of dedicated volunteers.
The requests are varied but with one thing in common: they are all desperate!
An elderly man from Shderot was trying to leave to go to Cholon. His apartment is on the third floor and he was without electricity. All the neighbors in his building had already left and he was left alone. In under 5 minutes a volunteer responded that he is on his way!!!!!!
The medical team at Shaare Zedek Hospital, like so many other hospitals, was frantically trying to give their all in the face of a mass influx of patients. Our volunteers descended en masse. Some were asked to join the Pediatric Department to help calm the tiny patients. Others were asked to transport patients and still others were assigned to create a day camp for the children of staff, enabling more staff members to come in to work.
The Food Division provides coffee and sweet, comforting snacks to medical staff at hospitals throughout the country allowing them to find one more pocket of energy to continue to give. Families waiting at the bedside of the wounded receive hot meals, perhaps the only food they have eaten in days.
Shipments of basics are constantly being delivered to our brave soldiers who are always in our prayers.
Our Medical Loan department is emptying its warehouse to provide equipment of all types as needed including sophisticated communication devices for soldiers who have lost their ability to speak.
Like all our divisions, the Bone Marrow Registry has not stopped its routine services. A patient with a life-threatening disease was found to be a genetic match to Major B. who was fighting at the Front. Ezer Mizion secured permission for the major to leave the front to donate his life-saving stem cells. Immediately afterwards, he returned to fight to protect his country.
Our ambulance fleet is transporting the wounded to treatment centers and sadly, some Ezer Mizion ambulances have been designated to join other organizations in bringing the deceased to a central location to await identification.
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2 volunteers caught in raid while transporting the deceased for identification. Both are fine.
A blood drive was held in coordination with other organizations bringing in the full amount needed in a very short while.
Donating for blood drive
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Hotlines have been set up for varied needs:
- Trauma support hotline
Our professional staff has responded to over a thousand calls from frightened citizens including elderly holocaust survivors
- Support for the elderly
Transportation for essential treatment and evacuation to safety. Delivery of food and medicine. Professional support for the traumatized
- Free loan of medical equipment
Walkers, wheelchairs and sophisticated communication devices for those unable to communicate
- Free ambulance and volunteer vehicle transport
Families of wounded brought to hospitals. Wounded brought to treatment centers
- Delivery of medicines, food and supplies
Constant deliveries to the Front and to disabled and elderly
As the war intensifies, we are hoping for your continued solidarity. Let’s stay together, fortifying our shared commitment to this noble cause.
Donations can be made online at ezermizion.org, by mail to 5225 New Utrecht Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11219 or by phone to 718 853 8400.
