35 million dollars (more than 122 million NIS) were raised at the annual evening saluting the IDF organized by the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF).
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces was established in 1981 by a group of Holocaust survivors, under the leadership of John Klein z'l, to provide for education and wellbeing of the men and women who serve in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) as well as the families of fallen soldiers.