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Friends of the Israel Defense Forces
from Connections 2021
by jewishnaples
Their job is to look after Israel. Ours is to look after them.” This is the motto of Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF), a 501(c)(3) organization that cares for the educational and well-being needs of Israel’s soldiers.
A group of Holocaust survivors founded FIDF in 1981 to recognize the courageous young Israeli men and women who join the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) at age 18 to defend the State of Israel. FIDF has assumed the responsibility of providing these soldiers with love and support in an effort to ease the burden they carry on behalf of the Jewish community worldwide.
Since its inception, FIDF has grown to over 150,000 loyal supporters across 20 chapters in the U.S. and Panama, and provides a range of well-being programs for Israeli soldiers. These include the IMPACT! Scholarship Program, which grants four-year scholarships to combat veterans from disadvantaged backgrounds, and the Lone Soldiers Program, which supports soldiers who volunteered to leave their countries of origin to serve in the IDF.
For more information about FIDF and its programs, and how to support the IDF soldiers, contact the Miami Chapter.
