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Apr 17, 2024, 10:00 PM

Home for the Holidays: How Yad Sarah helps people celebrate the seder at home

Yad Sarah Volunteer Delivering Home Hospitalization Equipment - Courtesy of Yad Sarah

One of the most important themes of Passover is home. It is a holiday that started in the homes of the Israelites while they were still enslaved in Egypt, when they were commanded to mark their doorposts, and, ultimately,...

Mar 5, 2024, 1:09 AM

Surviving a Hezbollah Power Grid Strike

Yad Sarah Mobile Oxygen Concentrators - Courtesy of Yad Sarah

Israel faces unprecedented security challenges – so Israel’s response needs to be unprecedented as well, and we at Yad Sarah are doing our best to contribute to that. In the face of the multi-front war that the country currently...

Jan 25, 2024, 3:57 PM

On This Holocaust Remembrance Day, One Cannot, Should not, Forget about the Survivors

A Bar Mitzva celebration at the Western Wall organized by Yad Sarah for a Holocaust survivor who never had one - Courtesy of Yad Sarah.

The Hamas attacks of Oct. 7, which murdered more than 1,200 people in southern Israel, were the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust. For many, the nightmare continues. more than 200 soldiers have fallen in Gaza, and at...

Dec 13, 2023, 10:45 PM

Israel’s Long Road to Rehabilitation: Following The Yad Sarah Model

Yad Sarah Physiotherapy Volunteers helping a Man Walk

Since Israel was forced into war with Hamas in Gaza after the horrendous Oct. 7 attacks, the country faces an unprecedented need for humanitarian aid: 200,000 people have been displaced from their homes, hundreds of thousands of households have...

Oct 22, 2023, 3:03 PM

Making Sure Lives, and Life, Goes On

Yad Sarah volunteers set up temporary branch for evacuees in the dead sea. Courtesy of Yad Sarah

“We can’t find our 79-year-old mother, help us!!” a caller pleaded over the line to the Yad Sarah emergency center as the atrocities in the south of Israel unfolded on Simchat Torah morning. The caller was hoping that our...

Sep 5, 2023, 4:52 PM

Why Caring for Family Caregivers is Essential & Lifesaving

Just after her husband passed away, Nechama, who had cared for him around the clock, visited the doctor to address her own health. She hadn’t been to a doctor for years, as she was too busy focusing on her...

Jul 10, 2023, 5:41 PM

What We Get By Giving

Giving. (Unsplash)

There is no question that Yad Sarah saves and transforms thousands of lives every day. With the help of donors and a national network of volunteers, an elderly woman gets the walker she needs; lifesaving help is delivered within...

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About Me

Philip Bendheim is a dedicated second-generation volunteer in the Yad Sarah family. He is a director of Yad Sarah's International Board of Overseers and USA Friends of Yad Sarah