Z. is a 66 year-old widow diagnosed with breast cancer at the height of the war. She suffers from mental illness and anxiety, and lives with one of her daughters and her children. Her daughter’s husband has been called up to IDF reserve duty. Together with them she...
June is usually a “slow” month. The school year winds down, summer plans are hatched, and the heat invariably rises as we usher in the Israeli summer. This June is different. The ongoing war is taking a toll on everyone; it’s hard to plan amid so much uncertainty....
We are honored to have been chosen as a grantee by The Good People Fund, an innovative philanthropic fund that selects charities in the U.S. and Israel led by "people with extraordinary drive" to help them make impact their communities. The Good People Fund...
J. is a divorced 53 year-old new immigrant from Russia. She immigrated with one of her three daughters to escape the war in nearby Ukraine, arriving right before war broke out in Israel on October 7. She was diagnosed with breast cancer soon after. J. speaks almost no...
Springtime in Israel is filled with holidays, both religious and national. Ramadan, Easter and Passover. Yom Hashoah (Memorial Day for Holocaust victims). Memorial Day for Fallen Soldiers and Terror Victims followed immediately by Yom Ha’atzmaut (Israel...
The Lemonade Fund was proud to participate in the inaugural ALL.CAN Conference in Tel Aviv, bringing all of Israel's cancer-related non-profits, volunteer groups, professionals and stakeholders all under one roof to discuss collaboration and share collective...
A conversation with Founder and Executive Director Shari Mendes on International Women's Month in a post-October 7 world. Shari is one of the speakers at the Jerusalem Post's Women Leaders Summit on March 27, 2024 Full article:...
We are filled with pride! Israel Lemonade Fund founder Shari Mendes was honored as one of the influential women creating our collective future by the Jerusalem Post Women Leaders Summit 2024. ...
H.,48, was evacuated with her husband and son from a Gaza border kibbutz after the October 7th massacre in Israel. Another son is a combat soldier on active duty. Soon after H. was diagnosed with breast cancer. She began chemotherapy immediately, followed by...
When I read about the recent death of Dr. Nancy E. Adler, a health psychologist whose work was instrumental in transforming understanding of the relationship between socioeconomic status and physical health, I thought about how much modern medicine has enabled us to...