Tzedek Centers have 18 locations across the country offering dynamic leadership training. They bring residents together to create projects to address the issues they care about and transform their community.

In 2023, we helped fund the opening of the first three Negev Tzedek Centres.

These new community hubs were opened in historically vulnerable and frontline cities — Netivot, Ofakim, and Ashkelon — that had also been attacked by Hamas but were ineligible to receive government support because they were not within a 7km radius of the Gaza border.

Last year, we helped more than 2,000 people in these communities receive compensation for loss of work and property damage, as well as receive funding for therapy.

To serve the most vulnerable within these communities – elderly, disabled or traumatised – Tzedek Centres launched their first travelling hub in Ofakim to go door-to-door with their support.

These communities have high levels of immigrant populations and individuals face language barriers when accessing government support, so we worked to ease this through a Russian-speaking hotline.

This year we are stepping into the next phase – long-term, empowering support

• Bringing residents together and providing them with the tools to take an active role in shaping their communities’ future
• Working closely with local governments to ensure rehabilitation towns have communal buy-in
• Training those who received compensation to help others in similair situations