Ukraine Emergency Updates

Our Impact

To date, Federation’s Ukraine Emergency Fund and Federations across North America have raised a collective $73 million to meet urgent needs, and we are immensely grateful to the thousands you who have given so generously. The Jewish Federations of North America are leveraging funds raised to create matching grants to local Jewish Federations to build capacity within social service organizations to support displaced Ukrainians in their communities. Together, we are making a difference.

Since February 24, the day the fighting began, your contributions have:

• 12,633 olim (new immigrants) have arrived in Israel from Ukraine. An additional 10% more refugees came through The Jewish Agency’s centers in Eastern Europe, receiving all the same services but decided to stay in Europe and not immigrate to Israel.
• Since February, 21,772 new immigrants have arrived from Russia and Belarus. In total, we’ve helped welcome more than 34,000 people to Israel in six months.
• Since launching the emergency hotline with The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews at the outset of the war, 128,799 calls have been received, giving Ukrainian Jews guidance and information regarding the Aliyah (immigration to Israel) process, as well as general assistance for members of the Jewish community in Ukraine.
• To get Ukrainians out of harm’s way, 455 buses have been organized, which rescued 13,742 people from dangerous zones, taking them to the Romanian, Polish, Hungarian, and Moldovan borders.
• The Jewish Agency engaged over 450 volunteers who gave their time and skills – as well as their blood, sweat, and tears – to help refugees in our six transit centers in countries bordering Ukraine.
• All refugee hotels had an on-site doctor and nurse every morning to offer medical care as needed. ~3,000 hours of medical & mental health care were provided for all who needed it – including refugees as well as Jewish Agency staff and volunteers.
• Three meals a day have been provided to all refugees staying in hotels in Eastern Europe, for a total of 290,000 meals.
• Together with the local municipalities in Israel, The Jewish Agency ran a campaign called Torenu (Our Turn) through which clothing and toiletries were collected for the Ukrainian refugees. In total, 23,000 boxes – equivalent to 354 tons – of supplies were distributed to refugees in need being housed at our centers.
• $514,800 Emergency Grants were distributed to 95 organizations in Ukraine through The Jewish Agency Emergency Security Fund.
• Throughout the summer, in Israel and across Europe, 3,121 Ukrainian children and teenagers have been served by our summer camps.