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Boston-Israel Fund: FY26 Grantees

Boston-Israel Fund grantees

The CJP Boston-Israel Fund invests in innovative organizations across Israel, strengthening communities, advancing opportunity, and building a more resilient future for all.

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Reflections on year one

“Hope has been at the heart of this first year of the Boston-Israel Fund. We’ve listened, learned, and invested in extraordinary people and organizations working to help Israel heal and build a stronger, more resilient future. We’re proud of what we’ve built together—and hopeful for what comes next. We’re just getting started.”

– Lior Krengel, Associate Vice President, Boston-Israel Fund

$8.3M

committed to Israeli organizations through FY29

27 grants

made to Israeli organizations

Rebuild Israel

Foundational Challenge: Increased need for post-war mental health support

HaGal Sheli – $1,000,000 (multi-year)
Fiscal sponsor: Friends of HaGal Sheli
HaGal Sheli is building the Zikim Surf Therapy Center to provide post-war mental health support in the South.

Momentum* – $100,000
A centralized framework of case managers to support reservists and their families, many of whom are facing new challenges with nearly 100,000 reservists being deployed during the war.

Summit Institute* – $100,000
This pilot program will develop a new model for veteran rehabilitation through integrated, community-based care.

Foundational Challenge: Bringing new residents (particularly young adults) back to devastated Kibbutzim in the South

Kfar Azza* – $1,000,000 (multi-year)
Kfar Azza is developing a 48-unit neighborhood for young adults to rebuild their community.

Kibbutz Be’eri* – $500,000
A 20-unit neighborhood to bring young adults and their families to back to Kibbutz Be’eri, or for them to join the kibbutz for the first time.

Foundational Challenge: Long-term trauma support and care for the hostages and their families

“Returning home was only the beginning. Our responsibility now is to help hostage families rebuild their lives, regain purpose, and transform unimaginable trauma into resilience and social impact.”

- Mor Peretz, CEO, 255 – Support for the Hostages and their Families

Partnership for the Rehabilitation of Returned Hostages and their Families* – $1,000,000 (multi-year)
A cross-organizational initiative to develop a long-term, coordinated rehabilitation structure for returned hostages and their families.

255 - Support for the Hostages and their Families* – $100,000
255 is developing a targeted pathway for former hostages and their families to develop, launch, and implement their own sustainable social initiatives to support their reintegration into Israeli society.

October Campus – $100,000
Fiscal sponsor: Merit Spread Foundation
A multi-dimensional civic platform to transform trauma into long-term social cohesion, resilience, and global engagement.

Israel's Leading Edge

Foundational Challenge: Gaps between Israeli innovation and global impact and implementation

IsraAID – $600,000 (multi-year)
An initiative to connect Israeli technology developers, global humanitarian field sites, and crisis-affected communities to co-develop scalable technology solutions for humanitarian challenges, as a way to leverage Israeli technological innovations to respond to global humanitarian crises.

Apex – $100,000
An AI accelerator program that funnels top veteran talent into a programmatic learning cohort to drive growth in the AI sector and to lift up the entire Israeli ecosystem.

Foundational challenge: Rising misinformation about Israel and the Jewish people online

“We are here because we understood, on Oct. 7, that the digital sphere has a superpower: It can shape reality. It’s where identities and worldviews are shaped, where history can be rewritten or erased and determine the future.”

- Hadas Yagev Hart & Ella Kenan, Co-Founders, Here4Good

Here4Good* – $500,000
A program creating a more reliable and credible digital information environment that shapes public understanding of Israel and the Jewish people at scale.

Caring

Foundational Challenge: Food and nutrition insecurity in war-impacted communities

Leket Israel – $100,000
Fiscal sponsor: American Friends of Leket Israel
Leket Bruit, a school-based nutrition education program, will be brought into two frontline and war-affected communities in Israel’s North in the 2026-2027 school year.

In response to the escalation of tensions with Iran in March 2026, the CJP Boston-Israel Fund provided 7 emergency grants:

Joint Distributions Committee (JDC) – $100,000
Rapid humanitarian assistance, strengthening municipal welfare capacity, and providing coordinated support to displaced families.

Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI)* – $100,000
Rapid financial assistance for impacted families.

Keren Shemesh* – $100,000
Supporting the installation of 3 new shelters in Beit Shemesh.

“I wanted to say thank you to CJP for sponsoring a bomb shelter in the park near me. This morning, a siren went off and everyone in the park at the time (dogs included) used the shelter. Thank you for keeping us caring and safe!”

- Caryn Shefa, Resident of Beit Shemesh

Habaita* – $50,000
Providing education reinforcement programs to students in Israel’s North.

IsraAID – $50,000
Rapid deployment of community resilience kits and family support tools for communities spending extended periods in shelters.

Rambam Hospital – $50,000
Fiscal sponsor: American Friends of the Rambam Medical Center
Supporting critical emergency operations and resilience support for frontline medical teams.

Sahar* – $50,000
Expanding for 24/7 digital emotional support capacity and strengthened outreach to those experience mental health crises during peak emergency periods.

Societal Evolution

Foundational Challenge: Barriers to access for minority populations into specialized sectors

Edmond de Rothschild Bridge for Higher Education and Employment* – $1,000,000 (multi-year)
A collective impact initiative to increase representation of Ethiopian Israelis in high-tech.

Kemach Foundation – $100,000
Fiscal sponsor: Kemach USA
Haredim for Medicine, a five-year initiative to expand the integration of Haredi men and women into Israel’s healthcare systems.

Foundational Challenge: Persistent challenges and gaps facing Arab communities in Israel

“For a young organization like EILAF, this partnership is far more than financial support - it is a critical investment built on trust. It gives us the confidence and capacity to think long-term, innovate, and transform vision into lasting impact.”

- Rawyah Handaqlu, Founder, EILA

EILAF* – $100,000
The development and piloting of a structured, municipal-level system to support victims of crime within Arab communities in Israel.

Sadad Center* – $100,000
An eight-month pilot targeting access to rights and psychosocial recovery as part of an effort to address critical gaps in emergency preparedness for Arab communities in Israel.

Economic Development

Foundational Challenge: An economic gap in the hardware economy sector in Israel

MassChallenge – $1,000,000 (multi-year)
The Foundry, a national hard-tech and dual-use commercialization hub in Haifa, will be built to support Israeli startups and serve as a regional economic engine.

Israeli Leadership

Foundational Challenge: Polarization and gaps in Israeli leadership across various sectors

“CJP’s partnership allowed us to turn a vision into action. It enabled us to launch the facilitator pilot and begin responding to requests that we previously had to decline due to limited facilitation capacity.”

- Tamar Orlev, Co-CEO, Hoffman Kofman Foundation

Hoffman Kofman Foundation – $100,000
Fiscal sponsor: American Friends of LIBI
A twelve-month pilot to expand facilitation of Hoffman Kofman’s leadership programs in response to growing cross-sector needs and specific needs in the healthcare sector.

Maoz* – $100,000
The “Leadership 2080” pilot, which invests in three projects that seek to tackle societal challenges and gives them mentorship and tools to create implementation-ready plans.

Foundational Challenge: The growing youth violence crisis in populations across Israel

Unistream* – $100,000
A two-layer intervention model to combat the rise of youth violence in Israel: investing in youth entrepreneurship and training participants on youth violence prevention.

* indicates fiscal sponsorship through Jewish Federations of North America

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