The Heart of the Matter

Jewish donors respond best to deeply personal crusades.

November 2005 By Margaret Battistelli

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We’re finding the connection to Israel in the younger community growing stronger yearly. In our college programs we’re finding thousands of Jewish students who want to show their involvement with Israel. In our high-school programs and our other educational initiatives, we’re finding involvement and attachment. Across the U.S. we have a representation of people 40 to 50 years old leading many of our local JNF boards.

That excitement is not part of an event or a project, but of a vision, of JNF’s message, and the Jewish community is attracted to that vision — the growth of the Jewish people.

JNF builds and takes care of the land of Israel for Jewish people everywhere. Our message, our vision, is about the environment; it’s about water; it’s about community development; it’s about afforestation and the land. What we do gives young people an attachment and a chance to be involved in Israel, in Jewish life and in world life.

The JNF is working on a new initiative — developing the Negev Desert by bringing 250,000 people over the next five to 10 years to live and work in an area that until now has been largely uninhabited.

To learn more about the Jewish National Fund, call 212.879.9305.

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