Raya and Dina cook homemade meals for 6,400 IDF soldiers

Sponsored Advertisement They cook homemade meals for more than 6400 Israeli soldiers. Help them keep going. [image]( Raya and Dina are from Naharia, a small Israeli town near the Lebanese border. Together with more than 30 local volunteers, they cook homemade meals for more than 6,400 Israeli soldiers. Now that an all-out war with Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon is raging, demand for meals has skyrocketed. They have enough volunteers willing to keep cooking despite constant rocket and drone attacks, but they need your help to help pay for groceries. Your donation will make a real, immediate difference. It won’t go to some big charity’s annual report – it will be used to give a warm, homemade meal to soldiers, this week. There are no big orgs involved here, no CEOs getting paychecks, no big campaigns. It’s just us, all volunteers. Every cent you give, goes 100% to buy food for soldiers. [Click here to donate]( [image]( What is this about? Raya: On October 7th, 2023, Hamas terrorists invaded Israel from Gaza. They slaughtered 1200 men, women, children and babies. Since then, Israel has been at war, and not only in Gaza. Hezbollah, a terrorist organization that is even larger, and more heavily armed, than Hamas, is attacking the northern border of Israel every day, with rockets, mortars, anti-tank missiles and drones. North of Israel is under constant threat of an invasion that may make October 7th pale in comparison. Many thousands of Israeli soldiers are fighting to protect that border, and a lot of them got stationed right next to me. When they came, I asked around to see how I can help. I didn’t have money to spend, but I do love to cook and have got spare time. So I started cooking for soldiers, and they loved it, and told other soldiers. I got together with a bunch of neighbors and friends, we asked for help from locals for groceries, someone even gave us a kitchen to use for cooking. In meantime, Dina Bitton was doing the same with “Hamal Bitton” – her family and neighbors working together to feed soldiers, too. So eventually we (Raya and Dina) started working together. The word spread, and soon we were cooking for 3,000 soldiers, then 4,000. Now, a year later, an all out war with Hezbollah in Lebanon has finally started, and demands for meals has skyrocketed. We switched to working day and night, cooking for 6,400 soldiers (and often even more). And even that is not enough – we just don’t have enough money to buy more groceries. The costs for groceries are unfortunately more than we can handle (about 23,000 USD are now needed for each week, and we’ve been doing this for 11 months, all thanks to your donations). We are really trying to keep feeding our boys and girls at the front, and even to feed more. It’s so sad to see that more of them want the meals and we just don’t have any more to spare. We need your help. [Donate and help feed Israeli soldiers]( [image]( What’s the money for? It’s important for us to clarify: nobody is getting paid here. There’s no CEO, there’s no staff, nobody is getting paychecks, not even a cent. Everyone is a volunteer, they give it our all, for free. The money goes 100% towards buying groceries to cook the meals. If you know someone from the area, you can also give groceries directly, not just money. They need chicken, meat, rice, pasta, veggies, and trays that they use to deliver it to the soldiers. You can contact us 0526374220 to give any of those (or pretty much any food, they’ll find a way to turn it into a meal). [Donate and help feed Israeli soldiers]( [image]( Because you are a registered member of the [timesofisrael.com]( email list, you are receiving this advertiser sponsored email. No endorsement by The Times of Israel of advertiser products or services, real or implied, is intended. For more information: The Times of Israel, 4 Washington Street, Jerusalem 9418704, Israel You are currently subscribed as {EMAIL}. [Unsubscribe from commercial offers from The Times of Israel]( Note: This will not unsubscribe you from Times of Israel editorial newsletters [View in browser](