A. is a 67 year old mother of 7 from a Druze village in the north. Since 2013 she has been suffering from cancer, most recently breast cancer. A. and her husband, a disabled veteran of the IDF, have been living on pension and disability payments alone, and they are...
Imagine you are a mother of 7 children, ages 9-19, and your husband suddenly loses his eyesight due to a rare genetic disease. Your salary from the Beit Avot (Nursing Home) where you work as a caregiver, suddenly becomes the sole family income and you take on extra...
No one should have to be very ill and very poor at the same time. If you're sick, you shouldn't be worrying about how you can't afford to put food on the table or pay your electric bill. The ESRA Lemonade Fund gives one-time emergency financial grants to the neediest...
On Tuesday, July 3, 2017, Tisha B'Av, the Fast of the Ninth of the Hebrew month of Av, I marked seven years since I was diagnosed with breast cancer. Seven years! Read more: https://magazine.esra.org.il/posts/entry/seven-years-since-diagnosis.html
This month we are paying tribute to the husband of a breast cancer patient and a group of volunteers who are helping this family with the gift of cooked food. A. is a young mother from Azerbaijan, living in the center of the country with her husband and three...
Important question. Not as much of an issue during the school year, but childcare can be a real problem during the summer months when school's out. Camp can be expensive and beyond the means of needy breast cancer patients. This summer, Myisrael, a supporter of the...
H., 37, married and the mother of a toddler, is from Jerusalem. Her husband, completely blind from a degenerative disease, is employed by a non-profit organization. H. worked as a teacher until she was diagnosed with Stage 4 breast cancer. She can no longer work due...
A. is a 60 year old single woman, originally from Morocco, currently from Beer Sheva, who was recently diagnosed with breast cancer. She is, like many of our applicants, living on a small, fixed pension, in subsidized housing. Breast cancer patients like A. are often...
This is the story of the son of a breast cancer patient. F. is a young Israeli soldier in the Golani unit whose mother was diagnosed with advanced breast cancer. She is having trouble coping with the disease physically and emotionally. As she is a widow, F., the...
A., a 52 year old immigrant from Georgia, lives alone in a housing project in the south. She is divorced with older children with whom she has lost contact. She has long-term issues with drug abuse and mental illness and now she has a new diagnosis of breast cancer....