The organization, whose name means "Hand to Brothers," announced that 34 women saved in these rescues this year were then housed in secret apartments it set up throughout Israel. The women are generally those who regret having married Arabs, but whose husbands refuse to allow them to return to their original homes.
Yad L'Achim similarly reports that the 58 children who were saved in the rescue missions would not even have known they were Jewish, and certainly would have had no way of growing up as Jews.
The organization runs a hot line that dealt with some 300 calls for help in the Jewish year currently coming to an end. Yad L'Achim volunteers helped in various ways ranging from advice and references to actual rescue work. Most of those who were rehabilitated by the organization became fully observant Jews, the organization notes.
The anti-missionary department of Yad L'Achim reports that 18 missionary centers were closed this year, as a result of the organization's activities. Other results:
* 267 house visits in areas of missionary activity.
* 174 people saved from missionaries, and they are now "coming closer to a life of Torah."
* Some 1,250 hot line reports of missionary activity.
* 12 senior missionaries who arrived in Israel under false identities were expelled from Israel after they were uncovered by Yad L'Achim. Dozens of others were not allowed in at all.
Rabbi Shalom Dov Lifshitz, chairman of Yad L'Achim, said, "The report shows that the rescue activities have positive results. Work that is done with seriousness and self-sacrifice shows results and saves people. It is frightening to reveal that there is no city in Israel without Arabs bringing a spiritual holocaust upon us. The data obligate everyone to enlist - either by helping or by supporting us, so that we can save additional Jews."
The organization's website
is currently only in Hebrew, but office staffers say that within a few weeks, the information will appear in English and Russian as well.
Yad L'Achim similarly reports that the 58 children who were saved in the rescue missions would not even have known they were Jewish, and certainly would have had no way of growing up as Jews.
The organization runs a hot line that dealt with some 300 calls for help in the Jewish year currently coming to an end. Yad L'Achim volunteers helped in various ways ranging from advice and references to actual rescue work. Most of those who were rehabilitated by the organization became fully observant Jews, the organization notes.
The anti-missionary department of Yad L'Achim reports that 18 missionary centers were closed this year, as a result of the organization's activities. Other results:
* 267 house visits in areas of missionary activity.
* 174 people saved from missionaries, and they are now "coming closer to a life of Torah."
* Some 1,250 hot line reports of missionary activity.
* 12 senior missionaries who arrived in Israel under false identities were expelled from Israel after they were uncovered by Yad L'Achim. Dozens of others were not allowed in at all.
Rabbi Shalom Dov Lifshitz, chairman of Yad L'Achim, said, "The report shows that the rescue activities have positive results. Work that is done with seriousness and self-sacrifice shows results and saves people. It is frightening to reveal that there is no city in Israel without Arabs bringing a spiritual holocaust upon us. The data obligate everyone to enlist - either by helping or by supporting us, so that we can save additional Jews."
The organization's website
is currently only in Hebrew, but office staffers say that within a few weeks, the information will appear in English and Russian as well.