At sometime in your life during Yossi Fraenkel’s 10 years in Crown Heights, you probably came across his help.
Yossi made Aliya and moved to Israel. In the 5 years that Yossi moved he volunteers his time yet again 24/7 to save those who can be saved and honoring those who cannot.
Yossi has been to over 90% of the terror attacks, he deals daily with saving lives and Kavod Hames. His ambulance had to be taken off the streets after 12 years of working which leaves Jerusalem and surrounding areas with only 1 ambulance to deal with all the cases. ZAKA is in the final week of an online donor matching campaign to raise $550,000 to buy five new ZAKA ambulances.
At the time of writing to you, there are just five days left.
We have raised $440,000 to date.
Just another $100,000 or so to go…
I am writing to you, as a dear friend, and as someone who has always been there day and night for the Crown Heights and Chabad community to partner with me and ZAKA in this project and donate to this worthy cause.
Especially at this – the eleventh hour.
These ambulances are life-lines for our volunteers, serving as mobile store-houses, equipped with emergency first aid, chesed shel emet supplies, oxygen tanks, emergency lighting, generator, rescue equipment and much more.
With stabbing, car-ramming and shooting attacks still taking place almost daily (even if you don’t read about it in the international media), we rely on these ambulances to transport the victims in an honorable manner.
Sadly, my ambulance which is one of the two Jerusalem ZAKA ambulances is hardly road-worthy after more than a decade of use. And in Gush Etzion, Haifa, Ashkelon and Rehovot, we urgently need to buy new ZAKA ambulances.
Please, help us beat the ticking clock and reach our target by the end of the week!
Please go to http://www.causematch.com/he/projects/zaka/?ref=67 and make your secure donation.
Please put code 3532 in the ZAKA volunteer code
With much gratitude,
From the bottom of my heart, Thank You,
Yossi
And Not forgetting his mother who is a tzadekus!
Yossi we so proud of u here in london !
Yossi is doing the most amazing work. A credit to Chabad and the Rebbe! A tzaddik just like his father R’Gershon
I suggest volunteer service organizations send a suggested donation letter to every recipient of their kindness, which looks like an invoice itemizing services and costs, but explicitly not requiring payment, just suggesting, if possible. Not everyone can or will or should pay it, but many will pay something and some will pay more. At the time or near when one is the beneficiary of such service, one feels more obliged to remunerate those who expended resources to help them. We get or see something and we can easily then assume it’s a given. Probably human nature making and using patterns.… Read more »
Yossi Fraenkel is one of the most selfless individuals I know. And you in chutz have no clue how vital and dedicated ZAKA volunteers are. From dealing with the most terrible terror attacks to the 402 B’nei Braq bus tragedy, to searching for a missing Breslov father in a freezing lake in Uman…ZAKA is there – LITERALLY picking up the pieces. Please – I know better than most the extent of chesed in Crown Heights; I lived there for decades. Now you can help us, here in Israel. Whatever amount you give will be doubled. Thank you from a Yossi/ZAKA… Read more »
I feel the whole community should come together on this. Every dollar counts means that even if you only have a dollar, give it, it will all add up. It is easier to get 1 dollar from 100,000 people then $100,000 from 1 person. Everyone, come together, dig in your couch, check your old coats, surely you must have a dollar there somewhere, may 2, maybe more, donate it to this cause. Can you imagine us without Hatzalah (G-d forbid), so lets give our family in Israel there service.
Yossi Phillips