THANK YOU for supporting my Bat-Mitzvah Project AND making an Israeli soldier and/or Israeli who needs assistance happy. My love for dogs and Israel makes this the perfect project for me.

I love dogs like Yoda and want to help others find happiness and love with a four-legged creature. There are many Israeli soldiers who suffer from post-traumatic syndrome (“PTSD”) from their service to defend Israel and the Jewish people. Also, like in all other countries, in Israel there are many blind persons who require the assistance of a seeing eye-dog.

The Israel Guide Dog Center (“IGDC”) does it all. Providing four-legged friends to comfort and assist IDF soldiers who have had to endure war, to comfort and assist victims of terrorist attacks (like October 7), and those who either were born or endure eye-conditions that prevent them from seeing and being able to even move around their own homes.

I have selected the IGDC because of my love of dogs (especially Yoda) and with my desire to help my brothers and sisters in Israel. Regardless of religion, IGDC helps people who need and benefit from seeing eye-dogs and dogs that comfort them to enable persons who have endured traumatic experiences survive in the community.

As in America, the costs for training dogs to assist people who have significant eye conditions that prevent them from seeing and moving around is enormous. Additionally, training a dog to comfort a soldier who sacrificed his/her life for the state of Israel is also expensive, as is providing a dog who comforts a victim of terrorist attacks.

My goal is to sponsor a puppy for the IGDC to provide that will one day be "Partnered" with either a soldier or victim of terrorism who needs a “friend” or a visually impaired Israeli. As Yoda has been my and Benjamin’s best friend, I want to help Israelis as much as I can.

Please help me by contributing to this great cause! One dollar, $100, $1000, or any amount will make a difference and an impact on a brother and sister in Israel.

Any donation in excess of $1000 will come with a special present from one of my dad’s winemaker friends! My guess is it will be a very special bottle of wine delivered to you.

PLEASE give from your heart any and everything you can! To learn more about IGDC please go to: https://www.israelguidedog.org/