(JNS) The SonShine Association ran its Jewish Connection Project this week, part of an initiative to distribute thousands of mishloach manot packages to passengers at Ben-Gurion International Airport flying abroad for Purim.

With the help of the association’s volunteers, flight attendants distributed packages to El Al and Arkia passengers before they boarded the plane. Passengers were then asked to pass along their package to a fellow Jew at their destination.

Approximately 7,500 packages were sent this year to various countries worldwide.

The Jewish Connection Project, in memory of Gilad Shaer, Naftali Frenkel and Eyal Yifrach—teenage Israeli boys who were kidnapped and murdered by terrorists in June 2014—took place for the fifth year in a row, this time in collaboration with Arkia and El Al airlines, Tamam and the World Zionist Organization.