Assuming a national leadership role
providing immediate and long-term national response,
empowering individuals and communities
devastated by October 7th and the War
Only hours after the October 7th attack, the Tel Aviv Foundation shifted its focus, implementing its experience, knowledge, and partnerships, taking on a leadership role in the national effort to overcome the devastating attack and its aftermath.
The Foundation’s national relief efforts include:
● Providing immediate assistance and relief for the 20,000 evacuees to Tel Aviv, in partnership with the Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality. Within days the
Municipality has declared that they are now residents of the city – and have full access to all services and benefits open to Tel Avivans.
● Initiating long-term mentorship and peer programs with the communities of Sderot and Netiv Ha’asara in the Gaza Envelope, including training, program development, and laying the foundation for ongoing fundraising.
● Utilizing the Israeli Forum of City and Town Foundations, established during the outbreak of COVID by the Tel Aviv Foundation, providing an ongoing platform and community for best practice, program development, and fundraising efforts for more than 20 city and town foundations around Israel.
● Establishing the Tel Aviv Foundation National Orphans Fund, providing immediate assistance and support to the hundreds of children who lost a parent in the October 7th attack and the war that broke out as a result.
Looking to the future, as Israel gathers to prepare for the immense aftermath of the attack and war, the Tel Aviv Foundation is preparing to continue its national leadership role, with a focus on mental health, rehabilitation, and community capacity building.
The planned new Reuth Tel Aviv Rehabilitation Campus in North Tel Aviv
The Tel Aviv Foundation’s focus on the future is lead by its flagship project to build Israel’s largest rehabilitation Hospital – the Reuth Tel Aviv Rehabilitation Campus in the North of the City. To this end, the Mayor of Tel Aviv-Yafo and Chair of the Tel Aviv Foundation, Ron Huldai, has committed the plot of land, and the Foundation has joined forces with the Reuth Hospital, to establish this state-of-the-art facility that will ensure that our hero’s wounded in war and the innocent civilians mentally and physically scarred by the attack will receive the best treatment and rehabilitation possible.
To support the Foundation’s national leadership role,
please contact Orly Ben-Eliyahu
Executive Director of the American Committee for the Tel Aviv Foundation
