Ilana

My slogan for the initiative is: Packing lots of love, with great love.
When I am broken, hurting, worried, and barely functioning, I drive to the Hangar. The moment I walk in, I receive inexplicable superpowers. My heart fills with endless love and giving.

There is no other place in the world I would rather be these days.

Each one of our amazing volunteers radiates so much love that it feels like the most beautiful and comforting place in the world.

The worry for my son, for the hostages, and for all the other soldiers has consumed every good part of my soul.

This initiative and its volunteers are the only things that calm me, heal me, and give me strength and hope.

Every day I am grateful for the privilege of getting to know all the wonderful volunteers, who have become so important in my life.

Thank you for your blessed initiative.

With such an incredible group, it’s impossible to fall. I love you all with all my heart. I pray for better days and that after this terrible darkness, a great light will rise. I will continue to pack lots of love, with great love, until the light comes.

Aviva

I kept hearing nonstop about the Home Front initiative from my son and daughter-in-law, who volunteer there. So the moment I retired, I told them: ‘Fine, you’ve worn me down — now I’m coming to volunteer too.’

On my first day at the Hangar, Ilana, who was the regular packer on Tuesdays, couldn’t make it. I offered to fill in for her for one day, and since then, she and I have become the permanent Tuesday packing team.

When I pack kitchenware and fragile items for families, I feel that I’m giving them a sense of security after such a deep emotional fracture, beyond the physical damage their homes experienced.

I started volunteering in July, and I’ll never forget how hot it was. I was warned about the heat, but it still caught me by surprise. The even bigger surprise was the sense of fulfilment at the end of the workday.

Now, every Tuesday morning I wake up excited to go to the Hangar!

Sylvie

I started volunteering on Thursdays — ‘Donation Day’. I’m proud to tell everyone that The Home Front is a place of hope, mutual responsibility, smiles from ear to ear, action, mutual respect, and lending a hand when needed.

I’m deeply moved by the amazing people who choose to part with their belongings for the sake of others, by the volunteers who act with an indescribable force — an immense power that fills every corner of the Hangar — and finally by the families and individuals, those with the colored ribbons (few arrive on Donation Day), who express gratitude for the initiative and the help, and leave smiling.

I return home filled with healthy air and a full soul. Full of hope for our people.

Marilyn

The Home Front is the place where I come to do my small part in helping my people, who have lost so much over the past year. Every time I come — unfortunately only once a week — I am happy to see all the good people of our nation helping and giving with all their hearts.

On the other hand, I am saddened by the need for Home Front and by what has happened to our people in so many ways over the past year, both from outside and from within.

But above all, The Home Front gives me hope for the future — with people who build and take part in a project like this, we can only be okay.

Meital

“The Home Front Hangar, for me, is a breath of air in a time when my beliefs and foundations were shattered.

It is a place to meet and get to know experience the people who were most deeply affected.

It is seeing and speaking with the most generous and sensitive people who donated their very best possessions to the initiative.

It is embracing and standing alongside the most wonderful people there are — who came to give of their energy, their time, their talents, and their smiles to ease the burden of those in need (and, like me, also themselves).

The Hangar is a place of hope.

The Hangar is belonging and home.