When Michal opens her pantry before Rosh Hashanah, she already knows what she will find. A few cans. Half a bag of rice. The package of pasta she has been saving "just in case."

She is raising four children on her own after losing her husband. Throughout the year she stretches every shekel, but yontif expenses are too much.

"How can I welcome the New Year when I don't know what I'll put on the table?"

Hardworking families in Beit Shemesh earn barely enough to cover rent and utilities, let alone food for yontif.

That is why Yad Ezra V'Shulamit prepares holiday food baskets filled with apples and honey, fresh produce including the Rosh Hashanah simanim, challah, chicken, fish, grape juice, and the basic essentials to cook proper yontif meals. 

“On Rosh Hashanah, we pray for all of Am Yisrael. Open your heart to a family, a child in need. May the kindness you show bring blessing to you and your family in the year ahead.” Aryeh Lurie, Founder Yad Ezra V’Shulamit

To give a food basket to help a family in need living in Beit Shemesh for Rosh Hashanah, please visit https://swiy.co/yadezra

About Yad Ezra V’Shulamit

For more than four decades, Yad Ezra V'Shulamit has worked to ensure that no Jewish family in Israel goes hungry. Every week volunteers distribute 12,000 food baskets through 95 distribution centers across Israel. In addition to groceries, they provide baby formula and diapers for infants, grocery vouchers for widows, and emergency assistance whenever families face unexpected hardship. This Rosh Hashanah, the organization plans to distribute more than 62,000 food baskets to feed more than 350,000 people in need across Israel for the holiday.Visit https://swiy.co/yadezra to learn more.