Israel

October 7 War Grants Fund

October 7 War Grants Fund

  Ensuring Uninterrupted Access to Oncology Treatments Soon after the war began on October 7, 2023, the Lemonade Fund immediately launched an emergency fund for wartime grants (NIS 1800 each) to ensure support for uninterrupted oncology care and to fill the gap...

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Empowering the Periphery

Empowering the Periphery

The Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) Empowering the Periphery The Lemonade Fund Empowering the Periphery program provides additional funds to recipients of emergency financial relief grants for Israeli citizens with breast and other cancers who live in Israel’s...

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Seasonal E-Greeting Cards

Seasonal E-Greeting Cards

  Twice a year, the Lemonade Fund invites supporters to send meaningful e-cards in honor of the Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashana) and in lieu of Mishloach Manot for Purim. The proceeds of the e-cards go directly to support emergency financial aid for Israeli breast...

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Eight Years…

Every year at about this time, in mid July, I am stopped in my tracks for a few days. It is now eight years since life changed so remarkably for me.  On July 18, 2010, I went for what I thought would be a routine mammogram. No reason to worry; no symptoms, no family...

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Profiles in Courage – June 2016

We at the Lemonade Fund often see how cancer can devastate a family financially in no time. E., a 73 year old Russian immigrant, lives with her unmarried daughter in a small apartment in a development town in the south. Until E. was diagnosed with Stage 4 breast...

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Profiles in Courage – May 2016

M. and her husband, a gentle couple in their mid-sixties, recently made aliyah from South America. Despite their limited Hebrew, they found jobs and were doing well. Within the last year, M.'s husband was laid off from his job and M. discovered a lump and was...

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Profiles in Courage, May 2014

B., 53, from Sderot, is very ill. She has breast cancer that has metastasized throughout her body, and she will probably stop all treatment soon and enter hospice. Her only income comes from Bituach Leumi (National Insurance) and amounts to NIS 4300/month. The family...

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Mammogram Controversy

Come to Lemonade Fund's Women's Health Awareness Evening (in English) to hear about the latest controversies about screening. RSVP:  shari@lemonadefund.org or https://www.facebook.com/events/480634542039654/

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