WUJS Participants Volunteer with the IDF

Tami, Teri and Yonit volunteering at the base

Since Operation Cast lead began the WUJS participants have been very involved in helping those affected by the war.  Two weeks ago they put together an arts and crafts fair for children from Southern Israel whose communities have been suffering due to rocket attacks.  This week the WUJS group visited the Tzrifin army base in Rishon L'Zion to put together war rations packages for the Israeli soldiers currently in Gaza.  At the army base the WUJS participants stood on assembly lines packing food boxes, each box containing food for 4 soldiers.  The WUJS participants, together with a group from Young Judea Year Course, packed 50,000 boxes!  They arrived at the base at 9am and left at 6pm.  It was non stop, tiring work but by the end of the day everyone felt rewarded by the effort they put in and all that they had accomplished.