Sderot is a city with 20,000 inhabitants. It is located in southwestern Israel, about 2 km. from the Gaza Strip, and at the nearest point 830m. The 'Tzewa Adom' or 'Red Light' alarms, which are triggered when the rocket is launched from Gaza, are heard over there several times a month and sometimes several times a week.

 

Michael, the facility manager, talks about the nights they spent in the shelters when 40 rockets were dropped in one night. In the beginning, there were huge tragedies, children and adults died, but the city did not give up. Today, "at every step" you can find shelters. Each bus stop in the city is a shelter, in each apartment block there are special rooms with this function, some toys in children's playgrounds are shelters, such as a large, colourful caterpillar on one of them. No one has died in Sderot in ten years, thanks to the utmost caution and protection of the uniformed services.

 

Sderot is a special place in all of Israel in terms of the peculiarities of its population. The situation brought together the poorest Jewish population in this place and, at the same time, the community most at risk. When the Jews wanted to return to Israel, and they had no property or any financial resources, they would just come to Sderot, where the cheapest apartments have always been and still are available. And so Jews emigrated here mainly from Africa, including Ethiopia, and from the former Soviet bloc: Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Kazakhstan and others. Why the cheapest flats - it's not hard to guess. If it weren't for the latter, who would want to live in Sderot? One of the Polish newspapers reported that it had become the most bombed city in the world in the last 15 years. Sderot is also home to Israeli Arabs, Bedouins and Arab families who fled Gaza as a result of Hamas' oppression of the local population. All these people, paradoxically, found refuge in this small Jewish town.

 

In February 2016, we witnessed the discovery of another terrorist tunnel by the police forces and therefore we sent this information: "Please, keep this message! Today at night, on the edge of the city, in a wooded area, another tunnel was found, finished and prepared. The tunnel would hold tens or even hundreds of terrorists capable of murdering or kidnapping hundreds of people in the city before anyone knew it. ”About 10,000 militants in Gaza are prepared just to attack Sderot and other Israeli cities from under the ground. They are dressed in Israeli uniforms and equipped with exactly the same weapons as the Israelis, which gives them a great advantage over civilians who would not be able to recognize at first whether they are Israeli services or terrorists near Israeli schools but hidden in the forest, which indicates a good understanding of the area that is further marked. However, there are Arabs in Israel - citizens of Israel - collaborating with Hamas. Another tunnel that has been discovered indicates that despite attacks on Israelis throughout Israel and threats from the north, the Gaza Strip is now the most dangerous place in Israel. We also ask you to be our Ambassadors wherever you are. Thank you. "

A story of a young girl about everyday life under fire from Gaza rockets. She lives in the Israeli kibbutz Nir Am, which is translated in the film as a city, in fact a village, between Sderot and the Gaza Strip. Every time I drive into the city, I pass Nir Am and think of these brave kibbutz people, especially the women and children. I invite you to listen, subtitles in Polish.

Israel stopped the shipment of toys, 4,000 dolls declared as clothing - in a container from the United Arab Emirates to the Palestinian Authority. These dolls are figures of terrorists with stones in their hands and terrorist scarves - "kefiyami", as well as shawls with a drawing of the "Golden Dome" and the words "Jerusalem is ours - we are coming to you". Such dolls are designed to raise children to hate them from an early age, which results in terrorist attacks by the children who die. In fact, this kind of education is aimed at the lives of these children, but the world still does not see it and no one objects.

This is how the shops in Gaza with trendy clothing for terrorists look like. It is by no means similar to the sight of "poor ruined Gaza" that is being promoted in Europe and the world. Neither does this picture indicate the prosperity of Gaza. As in any corrupt system, the closer to power, the greater the wealth, but in reality most residents suffer from many shortages, including building materials, which they cannot receive from the city administration to this day, even though they were intended for this purpose. I wrote earlier about Gazans' conversations with journalists in which they discovered their pain and disappointment.

Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority, admitted for the first time that: "There is no doubt that the daash (IS) is located and operating in the Gaza Strip, and who denies it is afraid of the truth." Pictured: With a Gaza resident who came to the Hands of Mercy for help as she escaped from Gaza and found refuge among Jewish settlers in Sderot.

 

 

 

 

The people of Gaza are also concerned about UNRWA's financial problems. They wonder if the agency will be forced to cancel one academic year at its schools. Another citizen complained about UNRWA's failure to settle the ravages of war: If someone visits Gaza and wants to see the true face of corruption, he will find it in the government. Unfortunately, UNRWA still does not comment on this matter and does not confront the statements. It follows that the people of Gaza no longer trust anyone who promises to solve the problems of the coastal strip, in particular in the areas of reconstruction and electricity. The phrase that is heard most often among the people of Gaza is: "We would like the Israeli civilian administration to return."

 

 

 

"Heart Adoption" is a program to help families from Sderot, a town in southwestern Israel, 2 km from Gaza.

 

Polish families provide financial support and establish contact with Israeli families chronically exposed to terrorist attacks.

 

If you are interested in joining our program, please contact us by e-mail. We send the database of families and children covered by the program who are waiting for their Adoption Guardian to the address provided. Maybe one of the children is waiting just for you.

 

We would also like to ask for support for the project from companies that could sponsor the arrival of "Heart Adoption" pupils to Poland. It would be an unforgettable time for Polish families - Adoption Guardians to meet with their children.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We help in cooperation with the Hands of Mercy charity. It began operating in Jerusalem many years ago, but after the southern coast region was handed over to the Arabs - today the so-called Gaza - the city of Sderot has become the most vulnerable in Israel and Yeshi Reinhard, the founder of the foundation, decided to organize help where it was most needed. For this purpose, he rented a small center in the center of a city with 20,000 inhabitants.

 

When I first arrived at the facility, I saw a white tent just off Herzel Street, which on weekdays serves as a clothing warehouse, and on holidays - a concert "shell". I entered the tent through the gate and further towards the small buildings that served as offices and accommodation for volunteers. Right at the entrance to the office there was a large round table which, I found out later, every weekday at At 9:30 am, all volunteers, workers and residents of the city are invited to pray together and read the Tanakh (Old Testament writings). Everyone can drink their morning coffee or tea and enjoy the time together. Christians, messianic, orthodox and non-religious Jews sit together at this table, everyone can feel welcome. Behind the table there is a building where jewelry is made for sale to generate funds. Ora, always smiling and full of warmth, orthodox Jew, works on the jewelery making. At the back of the facility, there is a small garden with herbs and vegetables and stalls for animals - currently goats, rabbits and chickens ... The director introduced the animals to the facility to - as he says - "de-stress children" while playing with them. And on the roof of the office, and on the roof of the jewelery making building, there are volunteer rooms with canvas roofs - like in a tent. In such conditions, in the morning, the sun or the singing of birds wake up.

 

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In 2019, we said goodbye to our longtime friend and partner Yeshi Reinhard, founder and director of the Hands of Mercy humanitarian facility. His heart stopped working, but his love for people and God continues. We miss you, but we believe we haven't parted ways forever. See you Yeshi. This is his story.

 

Ye'shi was raised in an American village in a Christian family. She says about her mother that she was the epitome of goodness, full of devotion to others. He began his youth armed with arms as he entered the brutal world of the Vietnam War, on the brink of life and death, experiencing the loss of close friends, soldiers fighting side by side. After the war, he studied at the film school, entering the world of Hollywood movies and began his career in the "dream factory". It was also the heyday of the hippie movement, the lifestyle of which it adopted.

 

Ten years later, he experiences a critical moment that completely changed the course of his life. Ye'shi talks about meeting God and your decision to follow Him. He also accepts fully the Jewish identity inherited from his father and returns home - to Jerusalem. In Jerusalem, Ye'shi establishes the Hands of Mercy organization, the aim of which is to support the weakest and least adapted to life in Israel Jews, as well as soldiers. He wins the love and sympathy of not only Jewish communities but many Arabs who see him as a genuine concern for every human being, regardless of the nation and color of the skin. While walking around Jerusalem with Ye'shi, no matter what neighborhood we are in - Jewish or Arabic - I often hear friendly calls of his name and loud greetings. Ye'shi never passes by indifferently by a man lying in the street, he bends over almost everyone looking for help. When Hamas seized Gaza on the basis of promises of "peace", the people of southwestern Israel found themselves under constant oppression and rocket attacks. Ye'shi then moved his service to the people where it was needed most. He founded a charity in Sderot - a city located 2 km from the Gaza Strip. He introduced support programs in the poorest and most endangered region of the country.

 

I remember one of the alarms in April last year. We were in a park that had no shelter. Ye'shi called up the whole scattered team and simply announced, "And now we will praise God." No one escaped, no one lay down on the ground, and no one covered his face. We raised our hands and, with the sound of the alarm from Tzeva Adom, proclaimed the victory of God Abraham Isaac and Jacob. The one who helped Israel in the time of prophets and kings - This one has power only to keep us today and give victory to Israel! Ye'shi, following the prophets, leads an extremely modest life. He sleeps on a fold-out bed in the organization's office, no bedside lamp or wardrobe. Most of the year he travels around the world invited to Christian and Jewish communities in America, Australia, East Asia, the Pacific Islands and Western Europe. To keep fit - he runs every day at 6.00 am, because, as he says, there is still so much to do ... The life of Ye'shi Reinhardt is an example of total devotion and service to God and people.