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The Israel Emergency Campaign
Israel Emergency Campaign (IEC)
When Hezbollah militants began firing rockets from
the Lebanese border on July 12, 2006, the Second
Lebanon War began. News of the conflict struck
a chord in San Diego, and the history of San Diego’s
support for the state of Israel had a new chapter
in the making.
UJF, in collaboration with United Jewish Communities
and the Federations of North America immediately
launched an ad hoc fundraising drive known as the Israel
Irvin Jacobs
Supporting Donor
Emergency Campaign (IEC), chaired locally by
Dr. Andrew Viterbi and Claire Ellman. The response was
overwhelming—UJF San Diego alone raised over $4.8
million in just over two months—a generous gift from one
Jewish community to another, halfway around the world.
Nationally, IEC has raised over $360 million to help Israel
recover—and to support those still vulnerable in the
North, in Sderot and the surrounding areas, including
Sha’ar Hanegev. Here is how your generous support has
helped rebuild and revitalize the affected areas:
War Emergency – upgrading bomb shelters, moving
children, the elderly and disabled out of harms way, and
providing trauma and post-trauma counseling;
Post-trauma Intervention – providing clinical intervention
and counseling to families and people of all ages;
Advocacy – supporting the UJC/JCPA Israel
Advocacy Initiative;
Education – emotional support for children to
reestablish a normal routine; training school staff in
dealing with trauma issues; providing special-needs
children with care, upgrading kindergarten facilities,
and providing after-school activities to keep children
positively focused, incentive scholarships to boost
enrollment in local colleges and universities; providing
aid and supplies to needy families; helping Ethiopian
students in vulnerable areas;
Community Capacity – helping municipalities to better
handle war emergencies, helping organizations better
provide food to the poor in vulnerable areas, helping
Ethiopian-Israelis in vulnerable areas; training young
people as community leaders; fostering Arab-Jewish
communications; creating youth villages where students
mentor younger children, sending student volunteers
to help beautify areas, helping train city leaders in
emergency planning; increasing volunteerism; supporting
NGO’s in vulnerable areas, supporting Magen David
Adom and frontline hospitals.
Economic opportunity – business loans for economic
development and job creation in the North, small-business
loans and grants, business development, mentorship and
job training in Sderot and surrounding areas;
Sderot Crises – providing incentive scholarships to
boost enrollment at Sapir College, providing posttraumatic
counseling and support; providing classroom
facilities, sending children to summer camp in safer
areas, providing the elderly and disabled with respites,
providing business loans and aid;
War Emergency $62,310,000
Post-Trauma Intervention $23,897,140
Advocacy $965,167
Education (including informal) $53,004,900
Community Capacity $31,872,300
Economic Opportunity $35,750,000
Sderot Crises $13,648,125
Currently, UJC has allocated $225 million of the total
IEC campaign. The remaining $135 million, of which
$60 million will be allocated in the coming months, will
be reserved for designated funds, new requests and
other war and terrrorism-related emergencies.