Christian and Jewish groups form partnerships to care for Holocaust survivors
When Ya’akov Edelstein, an 86-year-old Holocaust survivor, agreed to a bar mitzvah ceremony he never had as a child, he asked that it take place at Haifa’s Home for Holocaust Survivors.
Although Edelstein and his wife live in a comfortable senior citizen residence in this northern Israeli city, he wanted to celebrate this milestone—73 years late—at the survivors’ home: “I wanted to mark this day with people who experienced what I experienced. No one can appreciate this the way they can.”
The home, which provides housing to 75 survivors and hot meals and services to 200 others, was founded through a collaboration between an Orthodox Israeli philanthropist and the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem, an evangelical Christian organization based in Israel.
