JDC’s mission in Israel is to represent North America's Jewish Federations in helping Israeli society enhance its own capacity to meet the needs of its weakest and least fortunate members.

Information about JDC's programs helping Jewish communities around the world in developing safety nets for the homeless, the elderly and the needy, support programs that provide educational, religious and recreational services and promote Jewish communal life.

JDC is helping to empower Jewish women in the former Soviet Union and immigrant women from Ethiopia and the Caucasus Mountain Region in Israel.

JDC is striving to insure that overseas Jewish communities have the resources they need to help their most vulnerable children and families, and sponsors summer camps, after school programs, and trauma/crisis programs in Israel.

JDC is a lifeline of hope and support for millions of elderly Jews - many of whom are Holocaust survivors - in Israel and the Diaspora.

JDC created broad spectrum of assistance programs to enable overseas Jewish communities facing problems that make them particularly vulnerable.

JDC has established an emergency relief program providing food, housing, and medical care for the poorest families, and helping the community by supporting business development and employment programs.

JDC is rebuilding Jewish communal life in the former Communist countries, strengthening weakened communities in Africa, the Americas, and Asia, and enhancing Israel’s social services through a broad spectrum of programs.