Onefamily Fund

OneFamily is the premiere organization remembering, rebuilding, rehabilitating, and reintegrating the lives of Israel’s victims of terror through emotional, financial, and legal support and assistance. Since 2001, OneFamily supported 1,322 injured families, 1,340 bereaved families and 983 bereaved or injured children and young adults to overcome terror together. The nationwide organization is staffed by 37 professionals and more than 700 volunteers. The organization is led by founders Chantal and Marc Belzberg in Jerusalem. It grew from the initiative of their then-12-year-old daughter Michal who decided to cancel her Bat Mitzvah party after the Sbarro suicide bomb attack in Jerusalem on August 9, 2001 that killed 15 and injured 130 - and instead raise funds to assist the victims of the attack. As the recipient of the 2011 Presidential Citation for Volunteerism and a founding member of the International Federation of the Associations of Victims of Terrorism, OneFamily works in close cooperation with representatives of the National Insurance Institute, the Defense Ministry, local welfare services, social workers and community agencies to assure that every terror victim in need of support receives the assistance he or she needs. OneFamily then advocates on behalf of these terror victims and strives to access all of the provisions to which each victim is entitled.