Netanya Willing Hands

Below is a sample of the families and people we have helped in the past with your generous support.

A mother of 3 young children recently discharged from hospital with 4th child but without feed or diapers.  Family is burdened with large debts and the landlord is demanding payment of rent.  The husband is intellectually challenged and is presently working part-time as a shelf-filler earning basic low wage.  The mother is on maternity leave from her part-time job as a junior clerk.  

Social services will only provide minimal children's allowances as none of the children have been in care but this remains as possibility if the present financial situation continues.

How & when we helped:

Provided financial aid for rent, diapers and food.  August 2025

A 34 year old single man with cerebral palsy accompanied by epilepsy, acute communication difficulties and with frequent hospitalizations.  His behavior is extremely erratic  and potentially harmful to himself and to his carers to the point where he requires physical restraining.  

His lives with his parents who have both given up work to provide 24x7 nursing care for their son.   The family are 100% dependent on social welfare which is rarely enough to need their needs.

How & when we helped:

Provided financial aid for diapers and medication.  June 2025

A single mother  of 6 on a disability allowance.  She lives in a tiny 2 room dilapidated  apartment with no cupboards and only 1 bed which she shares with the 2 youngest children.  The other 4 children sleep on the floor.

The mother is heavily in debt and unable to work due to  a traffic accident.  Social welfare authorities will not pay for beds.

How we helped:

Provided financial aid for beds

A divorced 69 year-old man with emotional problems, without family support. He is about to move into sheltered accommodation with subsidized rent.

On 7 Oct 2023 he received word that his nephew had attended the Nova Music Festival and immediately travelled south to rescue him.

What happened there traumatized him, and he has been receiving psychiatric treatment ever since. He is now living on disability benefits from Bituach Leumi. 

How we helped:

Provided financial aid for rent & food

A divorced mother  of  2 teenage children, and a severely autistic 8 year old child, are lacking essentials such as beds and cupboards.   The autistic son is unable to communicate, does not attend school and has no social framework outside the home.  He is totally dependent on his mother who is heavily in debt and the family survives on the son's disability benefit children's allowance.  The mother and son sleep in the same bed with a defective base and a putrid mattress.

How we helped:

Provided financial aid for beds

 A divorced mother with a disease that means she can’t fight infection. Has had frequent hospitalisations and weighs 32 kilos.  Her son, aged 6, has Cerebral Palsy, and is incontinent, blind, and hyperactive.

Both receive maximum disability benefits and a rent subsidy - but no maintenance from the children's father.

Recently, both mother and child underwent medical reviews demanded by Bituach Leumi.  While the results are being processed, all sources of income have been suspended leaving the family penniless. 

How we helped:

Provided financial aid for rent & food

This is a family of five - a married couple with three infants under the age of three. In May 2023, the husband attacked his wife.  At the time the family was registered with Netanya social services, and the three infants were placed in a creche and kindergarten as a precautionary measure.

The husband works and earns reasonably but suffers from PTSD as a result of his army service. It is unclear to what extent he supports his family, but the wife complains of heavy debts. 

In the meantime, the mother, being totally dependent on her estranged husband, claims she is desperate for financial assistance. The husband was physically wounded in Gaza and is currently hospitalised in a psychiatric hospital with PTSD.

Immediately prior to his hospitalisation, the family moved apartment.  Social services found the youngest child, aged 2, sleeping on blankets on the floor. His bed had been damaged in the move. 

How we helped:

Provided bed & mattress for a 2 year-old

This family of seven has been helped by Willing Hands with baby formula and diapers.  Four of the five children have language and other developmental issues, which mean the mother cannot continue working.

The father is a car mechanic but has been on Army Reserve duty for the past three months. 

According to Israeli law, his employer is not bound to pay his salary after 90 days; thus from now on his wife and children depend exclusively on benefits: subsistence allowance and disability allowances for two children which do not cover all medical expenses.

The family’s rent is 3000 NIS - non-inclusive and unsubsidised for three sparsely-furnished rooms.

How we helped:

Provided financial aid for rent