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Municipalities, Turn to Chabad

(lubavitch.com) Despite the worst barrage of rockets since
the Gaza Operation began, Rabbi Zev Pizem of Sderot is in
his office and on the streets, continuing his efforts to
support the city’s remaining residents, many elderly,
who are stuck at home out of fear, and are now running out
of food.

“The municipality keeps calling me with more families
who are desperate for food,” said Rabbi Pizem.
“Every dollar I get is going directly to buy food,
supporting the local merchants who have no customers and
feeding scared people. I’m limited by funds, and there
are many more families to feed.”

Rabbi Pizem delivers the packages during breaks in the air
raid sirens. He told Lubavitch.com he had received a
donation of 300,000 shekels and was frantically preparing
food packages for 100 families with all the basic needs to
last for several days. In the middle of the phone call,
rockets rained down in the distance, this time, said the
Rabbi, “with no warning at all.”

Rabbi Pizem’s works out of the Chabad House, about a
half a mile away from his brother Channel’s house
which was hit by a rocket on Tuesday. While just about all
other community buildings are closed, the Chabad center
remains open where Pizem and a few Chabad volunteers race
against time and raining rockets to feed the fearful and
hungry remaining residents of Sderot. At this time, no plan
is in place for evacuating residents in need of physical
assistance.

Pizem’s outreach is so needed in Sderot, that leaving,
he admits, “is not even a thought.”

With 230 Chabad centers the length and breadth of Israel,
many in the south have become de facto support centers for
residents and soldiers. In Kiryat Malachi, Rabbi Lipa
Kurtzvail, led a group of 20 Chabad members to the front
lines outside Gaza where armed forces await orders to begin
the imminent ground assault. The soldiers were grateful for
gifts of food, the appreciation and recognition by Chabad
for their dedication to protecting Israel, and an
opportunity to fulfill the mitzvah of tefillin.

Earlier in the day, the city of over 20,000 situated 11
miles east of Ashdod, took its first hits as two rockets
fell in a nearby neighborhood. All schools remain closed
since the Chanukah holiday and residents are adjusting to
the new level of threat.

“We are here and open for help,” said Rabbi
Kurtzvail. “We will continue to provide help according
to the changing situation and the needs on the
ground.”

Rabbi Kurtzvail told Lubavitch.com that the IDF had expanded
their warning zone from 20 to 30 kilometers for rocket
attacks, including areas that are further away from Gaza
like Kiryat Malachi as well as Beersheva, which sustained
its first 3 rocket attacks on Tuesday night. All rockets
fell in open areas and no injuries were reported.

In the North, the IDF raised its level of alert out of fear
that Palestinian terror groups acting under Hizbullah
directives would begin launching rockets into Israel to open
another front as the army operates in Gaza.

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Chabad, As Missile Attacks on Israel Intensify, Residents,
Municipalities, Turn to Chabad

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