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The numbers speak

The numbers speak for themselves: Israel’s hospitals are increasingly experiencing a shortage of needed beds and, as the situation worsens, Yad Sarah’s home hospital service is more vital to the Israeli health system than ever before. Health Minister Yaakov Litzman, “It’s hard to imagine the health system in Israel without Yad Sarah.” *David Rothner brings facts and figures from 2015* In the photo: At the Equipment Lending Center at Yad Sarah House

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On the way to the ballot box: Meet Tzvi Weiss - 90 years old and eager to volunteer, and Aharon Hamo - a Nehonit driver with the style of a limousine driver

He is a 90 years old youngster who, in spite of staying in the nursing ward and having gone through a surgery only recently, insists on realizing his right of voting * The pleasant driver Aharon Hamo drove him to the ballot box. Satisfied Tzvi (in the above photograph) declared his first vote: "I've got lots of feelings toward Yad Sarah – I feel fine behind the steering wheel – I wish to become a volunteer". *Communication director Haim Shibi - Election Day Report

HELPING PEOPLE WITH DISABILITY TO VOTE

On Election Day, March 17th, 2015, Yad Sarah will transport disabled citizens who are unable to get to polling stations on their own

The New VISITORS’ CENTER – a place to greet our guests

By Debra Markus, YS Websites volunteer * in the photo: Uri Lupolianski- Founder and President - with Dvir Bendek, the presenter of the new center

City in White: not just a driver, but a one with a very caring heart

It is Friday morning when Malka and Yoseph P. are being driven to Hadassah hospital for Yoseph's medical treatment. This is a unique Friday, as all of Jerusalem roads are heavily covered with snow. When asked about this Yad Sarah transportation service and about Eyal the driver, Malka's one sentence conveys everything: He is not just a driver – he is a man with a caring heart

Yad Sarah ready to help snowbound patients

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH THE JERUSALEM POST

To tourists with special mobility needs

Don’t let a disability hamper your full enjoyment of a trip to Israel! Do you need help getting around in Israel? Let Yad Sarah give you a hand * click here

Special Consultative Status ECOSOC/UN * Associated with DPI/UN

In 2003 the United Nations recognized Yad Sarah as a Non-Governmental Organization, according it UN observer status. In 2005 the UN Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations upgraded Yad Sarah's status to an advisory body to the United Nations Economic and Social Council. This status allows Yad Sarah to participate in General Assembly meetings and UN international conferences, as well as serve as consultants for UN and government bodies

You Don't Need Chanukah to Witness a Daily Miracle

Every day is a miracle for Jerusalemites who are in need. For it is the blessing of YAD SARAH that is here in Jerusalem giving to those injured or disabled or simply needing assistance that this organization is set up and is ALIVE with services * Photo: At the rehabilitation day care center - the Shikomon * by Debra Markus

Special Candlelighting Ceremony Held for Dalia Lemkos

35 inch high hannukiah from medical parts donated from Yad Sarah, lit in Dalia's memory in moving ceremony * arutz 7

From Denver with Sorrow and Love

Thank you Ellen and Mark from all of us - the Yad Sarah family

Yad Sarah saved public purse NIS 1.5 billion by lending out medical equipment in past year

.THE JERUSALEM POST * By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

Together, at home, with bright, cheerful faces

Yad Sarah volunteers enjoyed an additional evening honoring and saluting them. Volunteers are responsible for making the vision a reality – and this time they meet in the city of Modi’in * Haim Shibi describes the spirit of the volunteers who belong to an organization which is also a home* Translated by Deena Tsameret. Photos by Nahum Rabinowitz, volunteer Deborah Rose

The wounded soldier requested to be released from the hospital – Yad Sarah provided him with an adjustable wheelchair

Since the beginning of the operation "Protective Edge" 150 soldiers received support from Yad Sarah

Our Album

In the photos (top of the page): IDF soldiers beside a sign informing them and their families that Yad Sarah is focusing all efforts in order to serve them in the finest way* The president and founder of Yad Sarah Uri Lupolianski providing his personal aid and effort in a special fundraising of 750 thousand dollars in order to obtain and accelerate an exceptional shipment of wheelchairs* Our co-worker in charge of the specialized equipment Meir Greenwald assisting IDF soldiers by offering them the special equipment they need * At the top of the page – the sliding photo album: 1- Expressing love and appreciation towards ourJ= soldiers serving in the IDF at the Shikoumon (rehabilitation center) in Jerusalem* 2,3,4- Loading and transporting the medical and rehabilitative equipment southward to Yad Sarah branches and hospitals in need* 5- The presence of Judge Bedimoss Mishael Heshinne at the Yad Sarah regional center in Jerusalem - for the nomination of the department of transportation in memory of Naomi Solomon* 6- The couple Shulamith and David Filo celebrated this week 50 years of marriage along with 14 years of volunteer service and assistance at Yad Sarah* We wish you all the best and many more years of giving and contribution along with all of us here at Yad Sarah* 7- Our volunteering crew at the Yad Sarah branch situated at the Soroka Hospital in Beer Sheva* 8- A poster in the hall way leading to the Yad Sarah branch at the Baylinson Hospital in Petah Tikva - containing a prayer for the peace and safe return of our soldiers, as well as wishing the injured a quick recovery * 9- The director of the Shikoumon (rehabilitation center) Irit Nahaloni (on the right) and her crew visiting a patient - Raphi Levi – who’s son got injured in Gaza, was released and returned home* 10- Golan Lamnatseah on a tour of offering medical equipment for injured soldiers in need throughout hospitals in the south (Photographed and documented by the volunteer Eli Cohen* Other photos in this edition some of which were transferred from the field as they took place through Whatsapp Network: Golan Lamnatseah, David Rotner, Kohi Weiss, Zahava Dvir, Eitan Dahari and Michael Cohen – Thank you to all)

The Joy of Giving

Director General of Yad Sarah Moshe Cohen tells of the scope of special emergency aid, in an interview on the program "Yoman Ezrachi" (Civilian Journal) * photo: Founder and President of Yad Sarah Uri Lupolianski helping to move much needed wheelchairs to the south * below: Moshe Cohen and a special van on its way to southern hospitals * Translated by our volunteer Miriam Kopeika

At the moment we needed immediate support and help – Yad Sarah was there for us

In the picture :Daniel getting what he needs for his son - Nahum in touch with IDF officers - and giving equipment to soldiers and families at the Baylinson Hospital- Yad Sarah branch

Protective Edge (1): Giving More

Yad Sarah spokesman David Rotner has returned from a visit to the southern branches in Ashdod and in Ashkelon. He found them functioning fully even under fire

Protective Edge (2) : Our hearts are with the South

Yad Sarah responds to the emergency support of the crews and managers who are exposed to the bombardments and rockets

Yad Sarah to make military cemeteries accessible to disabled mourners

Nechonit vans will take mourners to the graves at these military cemeteries: Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, Kiryat Shaul in Tel Aviv; Haifa and Beersheba* The Jerusalem Post reports * By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

On Pesach and all year we express our appreciation and thanks to our team of special people who drive the Nechonit

Shekadia Cohen, who volunteers her service to Yad Sarah, makes use of the Nechonit for transportation. She wrote the following to express her appreciation and the thanks of others for whom the Nechonit provides a means of spending the holidays with their families as well as enabling them to enjoy full and creative lives all year

Yad Sarah requests return of unused medical equipment in time for Passover

The Jerusalem Post reports- by JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

"It was so pleasant…I came out a new woman"

reports one of the first persons undergoing therapy She had just come out of the salt room recently opened at Yad Sarah. Naomi Sheleg Mai-Ami, volunteer correspondent for Yad Sarah, was in the Salt Room and here is her report

Writer Sarah Shapiro has donated NIS 97,000 to Yad Sarah

part of the sum she won from writer Naomi Regan in a widely publicized plagiarism suit when the District Court ruled that Regan had plagiarized portions of a book by Shapiro

The Big Winter Storm: The morning after

in photo: A special ride in the snow to a bride asking for help - with Yad Sarah team

Yad Sarah launches campaign to implement ‘home hospital’ program

THE JERUSALEM POST - Voluntary organization has expanded its medical-equipment loan service with the purchase of NIS 17 million worth of home equipment

"WE ARE GRATEFUL FOR AND APPRECIATE YAD SARAH, AND WILL HELP YOU EXPAND YOUR ACTIVITIES IN ANY WAY YOU WANT."

-Bituach Leumi (National Insurance Agency) CEO Shlomo Mor-Yoseph, after a tour of Beit Sarah and a meeting with members of the "Moadon L'nifgai Terror," a meeting place to support and empower victims of terror and hostilities. The Moadon is a joint undertaking of Yad Sarah and Bituach Leumi. Pictured: Mor-Yoseph together with Uri Lopolianski, founder and president of Yad Sarah, at the Moadon center in Beit Yad Sarah * Translated by Miriam Kopeika

Remembering Yafit Revivo – and Lending a Hand

They chose a volunteer project as a memorial * Yad Sarah's writer and photographer Eli * Cohen with ninth grade students at Ramat Hinuch High School * Translated by Deena Tsameret

THE FIRST REGIONAL CENTER – BEIT JUSIDMAN IN BEER-SHEVA, HEADED BY MICHAEL BENSON: from a 120 members team of volunteers to 350, staffing a continually widening range of services

With Yad Sarah all the way to the polling place * Mazal Sibuni does not give up * I deserve to vote – and I was able to do it with you

When there is a celebration of democracy – the elderly did not give up on their right to vote * Haim Shibi, director of communications at Yad Sarah, with the driver of the specially equipped van, Eyal Melamed, who drove wheelchair-bound disabled persons to the polling place * Photograph: After voting

Heavy Snow? Jacques Meir, an 89-year-old Yad Sarah volunteer who lends out medical equipment, showed up for duty as usual

The Jerusalem Post Reports - HERE

War in the South: Yad Sarah Branches Act to give More

Yad Sarah set up a special center to deal with requests for help from residents of the south * photo: Avihai Amosi - head of Shderot branch

Yad Sarah communications speed-service available to all

Every Israeli can sign up for Yad Sarah’s immediate communication service for a nominal, one-time fee

Forget Me Not belt reminds driver not to forget baby in car

For the hot summer days and year-round: another venture of Yad Sarah for guarding your child's life

They give as good as they get at King David

After nine months of fundraising, 90 year-nine pupils flew out to Israel, where they presented their £12,000 donation to the Malki Foundation and Yad Sarah

The Mayor of Tira on a visit to Yad Sarah in Jerusalem: "Thank you for your most significant services that enhances my town's quality of life"

He will locate a larger building for the local branch of Yad Sarah in order to enable the expansion of the various services offered in favor of all of the town's residents

Hello Yad Sarah

Take a look at our flash presentation From the Heart

RETURNING TO FULFILL THE DREAM

Residents of the Oscar and Ella Wilf Campus for Senior Living in New Jersey have visited Israel in the past. They were assisted in achieving their dream trip by Yad Sarah's foreign desk, and were supplied with wheel chairs. * They visited the Western Wall, along with many beautiful sites. * The senior living facility's administration has recently announced that it has decided to organize another dream trip for those who were unable to come to Israel until now, which will take place during the winter of 2015. * We will warmly welcome the group, and again extend a helping hand to realize their dream

What I Saw At the New VISITORS’ CENTER

The Best Show in Town: the Message – Inspiration * By Debra Markus, YS News volunteer writer

Moving forward with faith

The dedicated Yad Sarah family extends a warm welcome to President and founder of Yad Sarah, Uri Lupolianski * surrounding and supporting him – voicing the same commitment to giving: we will continue to bring light to many

Message to Social Workers: We Can Give More

Motti Ovadiah reports on the activities of Yad Sarah's voluntary public relations staff at Kfar Saba as they attended the annual professional conference on diabetes treatment. * Thank you to the Medical Media company. * Pictured: Motti with representatives of the Me'uchedet sick fund in Vadi Ara, and with Etti, Medical Media representative

Yad Sarah Working to Assist the Elderly Left Without Power

Yad Sarah is in the midst of an operation of supporting subscribers to the emergency calls center who are afraid of being disconnected due to the weather conditions * Facing the threatening security situation, subscribers who live alone feel more intimidated by possible hostile activity in their vicinity * Yad Sarah is prepared to provide people who are in want of enhanced personal security feeling with immediate, professional and effective response of the emergency calls center * Following is all you wished to know about the center * A report of Shirin Maloul, director of the center's staff, and David Rotner, YS spokesman

The Seeing Hands of Volunteer Salomon Bitton

Though blinded during his military service, he found the way to volunteer in Yad sarah* When treating stroke (CVA) survivors, he is able to immediately feel with his hands what would have escaped the attention of other therapists who can see* Congratulations to Salomon Bitton, volunteer of Yad Sarah rehabilitation center in Be'er Sheva, on his being awarded the Minister of Welfare Shield for Excelling Volunteers

The establishment of a new Yad Sarah Center in Ashdod – will be a gift to the city

Dr. Yehiel Lasri, Mayor of Ashdod, after visiting the Yad Sarah Center in Jerusalem following a conversation with the president and founder of Yad Sarah Uri Lupolianski *Photo: The guest and entourage with Senior Yad Sarah staff

Rosh Haayin: Happy In Our New Home

Branch Director Rabbi Naftali Tsubara in honor of the expansion of the YAD SARAH branch of Rosh Haayin: "Now from this expansive place, we'll be able to give more to more people"

Documenting Together a Beacon of Doing

Haim Shibi, director of communication at Yad Sarah, sums up the year* Thanks go to whoever provided us with documentation of the volunteers' various activities, who took pictures of the Israeli society's beautiful face, who translated to English moments of giving* In the picture: The Jerusalem rehabilitation center

Tips from Yad Sarah on Synagogue Accessibility

Shani Rosenfeld, director of the Exhibition and Guidance Center at Yad Sarah House in Jerusalem, notes that it is possible to boost accessibility using equipment available at Yad Sarah’s Exhibition Centers all over Israel

Mevaseret Tsion: In times of most difficult troubles, in moments of pain and distress, we wish to be able to support the suffering persons

Yad Sarah's site reporter Shelly Lash with Bat-Sheva and Haim Roth, * directors of YS home branch at Habrosh Street in Mevaseret Tsion * Translated from Hebrew by Batia Redner

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