This weekend, Yad Ezer LaHever from Haifa opened the organization’s representative and additional branch on the fighting front in Ukraine, in the city of Lvov, in western Ukraine, which was established due to the need to help many Jews and Israelis, who are in the war zones in Ukraine.
After only two days since the establishment of the first branch in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, of the Yad Ezer LaHever organization, for Jews and Holocaust survivors in Ukraine during the war with Russia, the association’s CEO and founder, Shimon Sabag, returned to Ukraine to closely monitor Volunteers of the association and conduct the complex operation following the war that broke out in the country.
Following the invasion of Ukraine and the fighting, the city of Lvov also became a city of refuge mainly for refugees and those who wanted to leave Ukraine via the border with Poland.
The association’s branches in the Ukrainian cities of Kiev and Lviv will operate as logistics centers for food and clothing, as well as the association reports that there is now a big panic, long traffic jams all the way from Kiev to the border with Poland and meanwhile, receiver.
Founder and CEO of Yad Ezer LaHever, Shimon Sabag, on the state of the fighting and the association’s activities in Ukraine: Russia may degenerate the whole of Europe into chaos, the Yad Ezer LaHever organization has come here and will do everything in its power to help and assist as much as possible. These are such difficult and painful days of heavy fighting that broke out this week in Ukraine. “
He added: “I feel sad and worried about a humanitarian tragedy and, God forbid, harm to innocent civilians, Russia could degenerate the whole of Europe into chaos, it is very important to me now to show solidarity with the Jewish community in Ukraine. This is the time and this is also our moment and opportunity as Israelis to express a message of mutual guarantee with Jews who need it. “Yad Ezer LaHever” came to Kiev, and today also came to Lvov and will go wherever we need to help and assist, my heart with the citizens of Ukraine. “
Shimon Sabag, founder and CEO of the association, who as mentioned returned to the battle zone from which everyone is fleeing and is known as someone who works for Holocaust survivors and needy Jews for 3 decades in the State of Israel, did not wait when he worked in Kiev two weeks ago to open the association’s first branch. And did not hesitate even now after the outbreak of war in Europe and reached the battle zone in Ukraine.
Meanwhile, Sabag said: “The association’s delegation set out two weeks ago as an aid delegation with a group of volunteers from Yad Ezer LaHever, who were instructed ahead of time in Israel especially for this important mission, which benefits Holocaust survivors and Jews in Kiev and throughout Ukraine. . I can tell you that already yesterday morning (Friday) in the city of Lvov, the members of the delegation and the volunteers of the association fill the new and huge logistics center we set up especially with thousands of food products that are immediately packed into large food packages and quantities of hot food. “
Sabag added: “It is important for me to note that in addition to the huge amounts of food arriving at our logistics center in Kiev and the city of Lviv we were also able to organize large quantities of winter clothes, which include coats, scarves, gloves, gloves, special clothing suitable for cold weather here in Kiev and Lviv. So do heaters and radiators for these emergency and cold hours of fighting on European soil. ”
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