Year: 2016

How is it to live in Rocket City?

Extreme Makeover

One of the projects we have been working on was a non-stopped race to complete a home repair before Passover began. We no sooner completed last home repair, then we were called on to step in and complete a repair job started by another group that could not finish a.
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A Moti Update…

Back in November of last year we told you about Moti, one of our volunteers and how he was hit by a car on the way home from work. At the time the police were not sure if it was a terrorist attack of a case of hit and run..
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It’s A Girl!

It has been non-stopped for the past four months. Besides giving out food, delivering hot meals in the evening, preparing our brunch meal for ENOSH we have had one home repair project after another. Your support is what keeps Hope For Sderot going and without it we would not be able to.
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Thanking Our Solders (Who are Just Kids)

In Israel within a few months after you graduate high school; whether you are a boy or a girl, you begin your two year mandatory service in the military.  Because of the ever present threat on the people and the state of Israel these eighteen and nineteen year old solders.
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The Escalation Continues

Since our last newsletter the tension on the Gaza border has not subsided but only escalated. There have been numerous reports of cross border shots being fired as well as mortars being fired at IDF personal detection and destroying Hamas dug and sponsored terrorist tunnel. In the still of the.
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I Feel The Earth Move Under My Feet

"Since our last newsletter we have been busy with many project in addition to our normal activities i.e. food distribution, Enosh, the school lunch program and the distribution of diapers and adult incontinence supplies, just to name a few. I would like to bring you up to date and tell.
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We Need Some Help With Passover

We need your help. Passover is just a little less than two weeks and at the present rate we will not be able to help all those who are asking for help. Would you consider making a onetime gift now? For many it is hard enough to make ends meet.
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Sderot Through The Eyes of Stephen

 I have been to Sderot on a number of occasions and had the privilege of volunteering with Stewart Ganulin and his amazing team at Hope for Sderot. Stewart is a selfless man and one of the most talented, generous and humble individuals I have had the pleasure to meet. There.
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It Shouldn’t be This Way!

This story is from the Jerusalem Post. It may give you an idea of life in Israel. This story is played out everyday. At his funeral in Jerusalem early Friday morning, his wife Yael, described how they had been in another part of the store with their infant daughter Netta.
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Tunnels and Knifes

We have reported in the past few months that Hamas is spending vast amounts of money to rebuild their terrorist tunnel system. Well just last week residents from Nir Am, The kibbutz just across the highway from Sderot complained of hearing noses coming from under their homes and have felt.
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