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Independent Audit Clears Hazon Yeshaya of Fraud.
Hazon Yeshaya
A supporter of Hazon Yeshaya has commissioned an independent audit by the respected Israeli accountant Gavriel Isaac CPA, who specializes in investigating charities. He has carried out a full investigation of all our activities and checked our finances very thoroughly. We are happy to share with you the full audit report in English, ...
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Responding To Allegations
Hazon Yeshaya
Despite recurring attempts to remove Hazon Yeshaya's founder and director, Abraham Israel, from his position and to take over the charity and its assets, the organization will continue to provide, especially in these difficult times, its services of food assistance, free dental care and free vocational training for the poor, needy and unemployed.
Our social workers are in constant contact with the Israeli Ministry of Welfare and its local offices and representatives, to discuss how to best a ...
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Hazon Yeshaya Responds to Allegations
Press Release
The directors of Hazon Yeshaya Humanitarian Network are keen to reassure all the charity's many supporters around the world that there is no cause for concern, as alleged in a recent statement posted on the UK Friends website and released to the media.
Hazon Yeshaya has cooperated fully with the audit by Deloitte Brightman Almagor Zohar, which was commissioned by the UK Friends, and has confidence that their report will show that there are no financial irregularities or problems with its h ...
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Poverty – The Facts Behind the Figures
Hazon Yeshaya Director Abraham Israel
The 2010 Poverty Statistics tell only part of the story, says Hazon Yeshaya Director Abraham Israel.
According to the 2010 Poverty and Social Gaps Report, released in November 2011 by the National Insurance Institute, 433,300 families, or 19.8 percent of Israelis, are living under the poverty line, dow ...
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Youngster helps Israeli 'twin'
Australian Jewish News
For Emma Stone, having a bat mitzvah was about becoming an adult. So she took a grown-up decision to donate funds in lieu of gifts to Hazon yeshaya, an Israeli organisation that joins bar and bat mitvah aged children with a 'mitzvah twin' in celebration of their coming of age.
Following the footsteps of her now 15-year-old stister Amy, Emma decided to donate to Hazon Yeshaya because she felt strongly that her bt mitzvah should involve recognising others in the world with greater needs ...
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King David Chef Helps in Soup Kitchen
Rosh Hashana fell on Thursday and Friday this year, so volunteers in Hazon Yeshaya’s kitchens prepared to hand out thousands of sets of three meals to cover the two festival days and Shabbat. “Many of our recipients have no way to prepare food, so we make sure to prepare ready-to-eat meals to keep them fed during the three-day festivities”, explains Abraham Israel.
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South African Friends of Hazon Yeshaya Launching
Rabbi Abraham Israel is visiting South Africa in September to launch a new support group for Hazon Yeshaya. ...
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The Forgotten Poor
The Jerusalem Post
"My heart goes out to the middle class because they're getting wiped out, they have a very hard time paying their bills - but the protests are not conveying the problems of the poor, which are far from those of the middle class", says Abraham Israel, chairman of Hazon Yeshaya. ...
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Hunger Takes No Holidays
Hazon Yeshaya
While many businesses in Jerusalem and many charities were closed on Tisha B'Av, it was business as usual at Hazon Yeshaya. Thousands of people, including many children and the elderly, rely on Hazon Yeshaya's three soup kitchens for their only meal of the day. Unlike many other soup kitchens, we don't close on the holidays or on fast days. ...
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New Facilities Planned for Ashkelon and Karmiel
Hazon Yeshaya is expanding its impactful humanitarian programs to help the populations of Ashkelon in the South, where average incomes are 20% lower than the national average, and Karmiel in the North, where unemployment levels are 20% higher than the rest of Israel. ...
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Feeding the Needy for Pesach
The Hazon Yeshaya Humanitarian Network works year-round to help lift people out of poverty, but Pesach is the time to give out food to all who are truly needy, so that they too can celebrate the Festival of Freedom.
In the week before Pesach, Hazon Yeshaya is distributing Pesach food parcels to thousands of needy families. Basic food parcels of chicken ...
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Become a Mitzvah Twin
Hazon Yeshaya's Mitzvah Twin Campaign Kicks Off
To sponsor a Bar or Bat Mitzvah celebration, a child is paired with an Israeli Mitzvah Twin and takes on the goal of raising $1,200. Families and friends can also choose to sponsor additional children in their honor. Twin sponsors receive a certificate of appreciation and photos from the celebration. The sponsorship covers:
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Hazon Yeshaya Originator to Visit Atlanta
Atlanta Jewish Times
Rabbi Abraham Israel, founder of Hazon Yeshaya Humanitarian Network who will soon be speaking about his organization and its ...
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Time to cancel uncharitable VAT
Jerusalem Post
What state must do, and urgently, is remove untenable financial hurdles preventing those who are providing assistance from maximizing their capacity to help.
The figures in the National Insurance Institute’s 2009 poverty report, published on Monday, paint a sobering portrait of the state of affairs for those Israelis on the margins.
According to the report, 2009 saw a sharp rise in poverty in Israel, ...
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10% increase in need for handouts
Jerusalem Post
Hazon Yeshaya is inundated with requests from people below poverty line leading up to the High Holy Days. Hazon Yeshaya, one of the country’s premier food aid centers, reported Wednesday a 10 percent increase in food distribution this year ahead of the High Holy Days, which start next week.
The organization, which was founded in Jerusalem more than a decade ago and now operates soup kitchens countrywide, launched its holiday food aid distribution earlier this wee ...
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When a Bar Mitzvah is a Mitzvah
Jerusalem Post
Nearly every month, a dozen underprivileged children celebrate their bar mitzvahs, free of charge. For these children, what may have been only a dream becomes a reality thanks to Hazon Yeshaya, a humanitarian network in Jerusalem. ...
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A Cutting Success
Jerusalem Post
It’s Sunday morning at the Jerusalem branch of the humanitarian aid network, Hazon Yeshaya, and in one of the classrooms 18 women stand in a semicircle around hairdressing teacher Regina Suissa as she explains the steps needed to create an “up-do” on a body-less mannequin.
“First spray with hair spray and then brush it back like this,” she says, working her comb through the coarse black hair. “Normal hair is not usually this ...
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Lifting Israel Out of Poverty
Israels Government has announced a new three-year plan to combat poverty but resembles the efforts of a paramedic applying plaster to a hemorrhaging wound. With 1.63 million Israelis living below the poverty line, the Government plans to help just 242,000 of them over the next three years, leaving 1.4 million without hope. The National Insurance Institute last year counted 775,000 impoverished children, but the Prime Minister is extending a helping hand to 115,000 of them just 15%.
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