Yad Sarah
The father of hostage Bar Kupershtein visited the last place his 21-year-old son was seen before being abducted by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7, 2023, and taken to the Gaza Strip.
The Jewish state’s largest national volunteer organization provides a vast quantity of medical and rehabilitative home-care equipment.
The organization has loaned more than 200 children’s car seats to Arab and Bedouin Israeli citizens.
The organization has sent reinforcement to branches in southern Israel, providing supplies like home hospital equipment, wheelchairs, crutches, respiratory aids and more by the hundreds.
Yad Sarah inspires start of medical equipment-lending outlet in Connecticut
“When I saw the world-class presentation, I said to myself, ‘Wow. This is just an incredible idea, an incredible concept,’ ” said Wheel It Forward founder Elliot Sloyer.
In addition to helping deliver food and medicine to nursing homes, members of Israel’s elite Shayetet 13 unit agree to supply 400 filled oxygen tanks a week.
Yad Sarah announces coronavirus hotline and emergency delivery service
The service will aid the tens of thousands of people under quarantine in Israel who can no longer visit its local branches to borrow oxygen cylinders, respiratory and orthopedic equipment, and more.
The branch currently handles 20,000 unique visits for equipment loans per year, lending out hospital beds, patient hoists, wheelchairs, oxygen equipment, home necklace alarms and breast pumps.
Yad Sarah opens two new branches providing health, social services in Israel
The new branches in Akko and Tiberias represent the latest venues to mobilize the energy of Yad Sarah’s corps of 7,000-plus volunteers.
