Donate To Livnot U'Lehibanot
Be Part of a Life Transforming Experience
Thank you for your interest in Livnot. Your donation
will help us provide meaningful Israel experiences
to young Jewish adults who have had little or no Jewish
education and will provide our community volunteers
with the tools they need to make a difference in communities
in Israel.
Thank you in advance for your support.
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your check to:
American Friends of Livnot U’Lehibanot
P.O.B. 811715, Boca Raton FL 33481 USA
From Israel, please mail to:
Livnot U’Lehibanot
POB 375
Tzfat 13103
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Donate by phone:
USA (Florida office): 561-381-4999
Israel (Tzfat office): 04-697-0311
U.S. Dollar donations
are tax-deductible in the U.S.
Tax ID #: 13-3500786
NIS donations are tax-deductible in Israel.
Sief 46 File # 580069912
Livnot Educational Programming
The reasons we need your support for our educational programs:
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Taglit-Birthright Israel:
Livnot U’Lehibanot’s Taglit Birthright Israel programs are run in coordination with Taglit Birthright Israel Foundation.
However, Livnot’s Taglit Birthright Israel trips are 14 days, 4 days longer than the traditional Taglit Birthright Israel 10-day trips. This is due to Livnot’s belief that participants gain from the opportunity to live in an Israel community for several days (Tzfat), participate in community service work within that community, and celebrate a second Israel Shabbat.
Contributions help sponsor these extra activities and days.
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Galilee Fellowships:
In the wake of the 2006 Second Lebanon War, Livnot U’Lehibanot was asked to undertake renovation and reconstruction of bomb shelters in the North. As time passed, the focus on the bomb shelters has widened to encompass all forms of Community Service in Northern communities, and today, the municipalities of several Northern towns turn to Livnot for assistance, not only to help renovate bomb shelters but to help with all forms of volunteer activities in the area.
This work is made possible through the Livnot Galilee Fellowship program. Young Jewish adults, many of them Taglit-Birthright Israel alumni, come together on this program to perform community service while participating in a comprehensive Israel program of hiking, study and Jewish and Shabbat Experiences.
The majority of these participants are either graduate students or individuals who have recently completed their studies, and just beginning their careers, still tied to student loans. Livnot offers them subsidized air fare and tuition. Without these subsidies, the cost would be prohibitive for most. Donations help make this program affordable.
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The Livnot Journey:
Livnot offers a 5-month program, with subsidies from MASA, a subsidiary of the Jewish Agency for Israel. The traditional Livnot components of hiking, volunteering, community and building the Land of Israel makes this program attractive both to individuals who want to build on an initial Israel experience to deepen their explorations of their heritage, as well as to first-timers to Israel.
Even with MASA subsidies, travel and living costs can push these programs out of the reach of many potential Livnot chevre. Livnot makes every effort to enable participants to attend, and all donations enabling people to join the Livnot Journey are welcome.
Livnot Community Service Program
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Community Service:
Individual and groups visiting Israel frequently wish to participate in Tikkun Olam projects. Livnot’s continuing program of Community Service allows volunteers to participate in a variety of projects, such as bomb shelter renovations, painting kindergartens and schools, public gardening, building public parks, and renovating and repairing the apartments of the elderly, needed and victims of terror.
Livnot is frequently limited in its ability to accept volunteer groups because of budget for supplies and staff to oversee the volunteers. Donors who assist in underwriting the cost of these projects will know that their contributions support the projects themselves as well as Livnot’s mission of bringing the concept of Tikkun Olam to the widest audience possible.
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Project Resilience: After the Second Lebanon War of 2006, the communities of the North were faced with the knowledge that they were unprepared for an emergency situation. During the war, many citizens of the North fled because the most of the bomb shelters were unprepared – lacked plumbing, electricity, ventilation. People were unable to walk into them, much less stay in them for any amount of time. Following the war, Livnot was asked to undertake the renovation of many o these shelters.
Livnot activated thousands of volunteers and hundreds of its program participants through Project Resilience. This program addressed the real needs of the local population while bringing together thousands of Jews from the Diaspora. Many of the 200 shelters that Livnot has repaired were converted into dual purpose shelters which provided community space for programming for neighborhood children, elderly, and others. Livnot sees its role in this project as one of empowerment – to do the physical work necessary for the shelter’s functioning, and then allow the neighbors to, on their own, activate it.
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