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Services for Holocaust Survivors in Israel

Needs & Service Providers

2018

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Quick Facts

Holocaust Survivors in Israel

• 220,000 Holocaust Survivors live in Israel

• 1/3rd of all Holocaust Survivors reside in Israel

• 40 survivors pass away each day

• Average age = 85 years

• 36% live alone

• 50% report feelings of loneliness

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Services for Holocaust Survivors in Israel

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Basic Needs

Eshel Government

Ministries

Claims

Conference

Foundations NGOs

that deal

With

Holocaust

Survivors

NGOs that

deal with

Older

Adults

HMOs

Financial

Medical

Preventative

Therapy

Housing

Maintenance

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Trauma Therapy

Eshel Government

Ministries

Claims

Conference

NGOs that deal

with Holocaust

Survivors

NGOs that

deal with Older

Adults

HMOs

Individual Psychotherapy

Second Generation

Alternative Therapy

Witness Theater

Photography with Joy

Music Therapy

Bibliotherapy

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Social

Eshel Government

Ministries

Claims

Conference

NGOs that

deal with

Holocaust

Survivors

HMOs

Café Europa/

Britannia

Excursions

Warm Homes

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Education & Preservation of Memories

Eshel Government

Ministries

Funds Museums NGOs that

deal with

Holocaust

Survivors

NGOs

that deal

with

Older

Adults

Museum

Activities

Recording

Testimonies

Inter-generational

Activities

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Legal

Eshel Government

Ministries

Foundations Aviv

NGO

NGOs that

deal with

Older Adults

HMOs

National

Information

Centers

Actualizing

Individual

Rights

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Homebound and Disabled

Eshel Government

Ministries

Foundations NGOs that

deal with

Older Adults

HMOs

Long-Term

Benefit Rights

Celeb (basket

of services)

Volunteer

Programs (Yad

l' Yad)

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Primary Challenges

• Loneliness amongst the homebound

• Data synchronization and sharing

• Poverty amongst survivors who immigrated to Israel after 1953,

but were not in concentration camps or ghettos

• Second generation trauma

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