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Israel Volunteer Directory
Explore volunteer opportunities in Israel.
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The Israel Volunteer Directory features programs and volunteer opportunities in Israel. These volunteer opportunities listed below are open to anyone interested in making a meaningful difference in Israel.
If you have a volunteer opportunity in Israel that you would like us to consider for the directory, please complete the form below.
Skilled Volunteers for Israel is committed to strengthening connections between Jews in the Diaspora and Israel.
Volunteer Categories
Explore volunteer opportunities in Israel. The complete list of opportunities appears below.
Select your category of interest from the blue tabs.
Israel Food Rescue
Israel Food Rescue is a nonpolitical and religiously pluralistic volunteer program that aids needy Israeli farmers and protects Israel’s food security. In addition to the regularly scheduled volunteer missions, volunteers between ages 16-40 may be able to join a grant-funded trip during November and December 2024.
Authentic Israel
Volunteer opportunities include:
Packaging food and-or clothing
Volunteering on IDF bases
Supporting agriculture by harvesting
Leket For Israel
Support Israeli farmers
Livnot U’Lhibanot
Make a difference by helping to restore Gaza-border communities in Israel. Starting every Sunday in Sderot and surrounding Kibbutzim (one-week minimum).
Netzarim Brigade Volunteers: Beni Netzarim
Organizes groups and individuals to go south to the moshavim & farms to volunteer on the land. While the communities of Bnai Netzarim are religious, non-religious volunteers are welcome. Volunteer commitment of 2-4 days per week is required.
Eran’s Angels
This large packing initiative takes place in an underground parking garage at the Tel Aviv Expo. Volunteers accept, pack and distribute needed donations for Israel’s soldiers and survivors of the Oct 7 massacre. It is accessible by train (Tel Aviv University train station)
Pantry Packers
Schedule a visit to pack food that will be distributed to Israeli families in need of food help. Located in Jerusalem.
Yad Sarah Jerusalem
Volunteer to assist with laundry for evacuee families in Jerusalem. A minimum of 3 hours suggested.
Call in advance to reserve your spot. +972-53-268-9733
The Jaffa Institute
The Jaffa Institute’s Food Distribution Center targets hunger and malnutrition in the home by providing 15,500 food packages a year.
English B’Yachad
English B’Yachad provides personalized online English tutoring to promising young adults from less-advantaged communities in Israel. Retired professionals serve as volunteer tutors, boosting students’ fluency and confidence so they can more effectively achieve upward mobility. Tutoring can be done remotely from anywhere..
English Speakers Residents Association (ESRA)
In partnership with the Israel Ministry of Education, ESRA promotes English academic achievements of Israeli schoolchildren. ESRA's English Tutoring Programs focus on strengthening the English oral proficiency of Israeli students.
Hachamalshelkan
There are many ways to support IDF soldiers, displaced persons, and others in need.
Swords of Iron
This Facebook group covers numerous volunteer opportunities. Please visit often as new opportunities are continuously posted. Questions about volunteering are welcomed.
Jewish National Fund
Spend 4 days in Israel to reach and assist local communities:
Deliver care packages to hospitals
Support disabled children and adults
Provide hands-on community service
Support agriculture
Sar-El
Work alongside soldiers, base employees, and other volunteers on an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) base, performing non-combat civilian support duties such as packing medical supplies; repairing machinery and equipment; packing and checking all kinds of equipment; as well as cleaning, painting, and maintaining the IDF base.
Tachlit
On Mondays and Thursdays, 30 senior volunteers meet in Jerusalem to package produce for the poor, disabled, evacuees and soldiers. This volunteer effort is organized by Beverly Luchfeld.
TalentEducators
TalentEducators is seeking Diaspora-based Hebrew-speaking teachers who are available immediately to teach 45-minute classes on Zoom to Israeli students.
Volunteer Brigade
Volunteer activities happening around Israel are posted in real time in this WhatsApp group.
Volunteering in Israel
This Facebook group shares volunteering opportunities and needs in Israel and abroad.
Volunteers Needed - Available
Find people looking to help as well as those looking for helpers in this group.
Hinenu — Call for Medical & Nursing Volunteers
Provide emergency medical personnel to fill in where hospitals may need additional personnel with valid licenses from Israel or a Western Country (US, Canada, EU) in medicine, nursing, nurse practitioner, and other critical credentials. There are emergency processes for rapid temporary credential recognition.
Israel Medical Association
Seeking medical personnel who speak English or Hebrew to help with trauma. Surgeons, orthopedic surgeons and neurosurgeons are needed. Fluent Hebrew is required.
Physician Registration Effort by Dr. Michael Braffman — Philadelphia
Dr. Michael Braffman is connected to an Israeli colleague who is part of a network including hospital and medical managers.
International Task Force
WhatsApp group focused on American therapists working with people of Israel in the midst of active traumatic stress. Most helpful for Hebrew speakers.
Stand With Humanity: Israeli Law Firms Support Platform
Israeli law firms are seeking to make contact with colleagues outside of Israel who may be in a position to assist in the international arena. This initiative is establishing a platform of individuals and firms willing to be called on when needed for assistance with matters in their expertise or jurisdiction.
Startup Reserves for Israel (SRI)
This global force of 3,000+ highly skilled volunteers provides a range of professional services to fill gaps in Israel’s startup workforce. SRI matches startups that need resources with expert volunteers.
Onward Israel Volunteer
Age: Up to 40 years
In collaboration with Taglit Birthright Israel, volunteer in Israel. Take part in food rescue operations to prevent shortages in the Israeli market. Sort, pack and distribute goods for civil and military personnel.
Masa Volunteers
Ages: 18 to 40
This 6-week volunteer program in Israel focuses on:
Education
International Humanitarian Work
Social Action/Volunteering, Kibbutz, Coexistence, Agriculture
Includes housing, insurance, public transportation, and more
Rinyat Yisrael—Congregation
Congregation Rinat Israel assembled this list of volunteer opportunities. (You will likely find some duplication of options in the Israel Volunteer Directory.)
Second Line
Formed in the aftermath of October 7, Second Line provides opportunities for mental health professionals to assist Israelis both in person and remotely.
Volunteers for Israel
"Volun-tour" programs in Israel to support Israel. Appropriate for adult and senior volunteers. Their focus is on: :
Agriculture
Archeology
Community rebuilding
Rehabilitation
Note: The volunteer programs in this listing are run by Volunteers for Israel (VFI), not to be confused with Skilled Volunteers for Israel (SVFI). SVFI is the host of all the listings in this Israel Volunteer Directory.
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Israel Volunteer Directory
Explore volunteer opportunities in Israel.
The Israel Volunteer Directory features programs and volunteer opportunities in Israel.
The programs listed below are open to anyone interested in making a meaningful difference in Israel.
Skilled Volunteers for Israel is committed to strengthening connections between Jews in the Diaspora and Israel.
Please share this page with others.