"So that no family will be without a sukkah": The volunteers who come to your home

Ahead of the Sukkot holiday, hundreds of volunteers across the country are visiting the homes of the elderly, reservist families, wounded soldiers, and bereaved families to build sukkahs for them. Organizations 'Lev Echad', the Bnei Akiva Kiryat Herzog Yeshiva, and the Kiryat Ata Municipality are leading initiatives where teenagers and volunteers build sukkahs, create intergenerational connections, and strengthen the community. The initiatives grow from year to year, and this year about one hundred requests for assistance were registered.

Ahead of the Sukkot holiday, hundreds of volunteers across the country are visiting the homes of the elderly, reservist families, wounded soldiers, and bereaved families to build sukkahs for them. The organization 'Lev Echad' coordinates a national initiative and received one hundred requests this year to build sukkahs. Miriam Itzkovich from the organization tells of an IDF widow who requested a volunteer to build a sukkah with her children after Yom Kippur, to continue the family tradition. The Bnei Akiva Kiryat Herzog Yeshiva in Bnei Brak, headed by Rabbi Yaakov Gitelman, has been running a religious-community initiative for about a decade, building around 20 sukkahs this year. In the Kiryat Ata Municipality, under the management of Hagit Sayag, teenage volunteers are sent to the homes of people who have physical difficulties or who have never built a sukkah. In the Beit El Council, Tzipi Lampert coordinates requests from elderly people and single mothers, and the teenagers also dismantle the sukkahs after the holiday. The volunteers emphasize the intergenerational connection, sense of community, and unity in Israeli society.