Leket Israel

1. What is Leket Israel?

Leket Israel, the National Food Bank, is the leading food rescue organization in Israel. Unique among all other organizations that serve the poor in Israel and food banks worldwide, Leket Israel’s sole focus is rescuing healthy, surplus food and delivering it to those in need through partner nonprofit organizations. In 2022, Leket Israel rescued 1.9 million hot meals from hotels, corporate cafeterias and IDF army bases and 60 million lbs. of fresh agricultural produce from farmers and packing houses and distributed it to 265 nonprofit agency partners, feeding 234,000 Israelis in need each week.

2. How can I get involved?

Leket supporters can help in many ways. The easiest way to support Leket is to ‘like’ our Facebook page, follow us on Twitter and Instagram and share our posts on social media with your friends and family. You can also organize a fundraiser or chesed project, host an information session for your community, congregation, organization, or support Leket Israel on the occasion of a simcha or community event by opening a personalized charity page.

3. Do you accept volunteers?

If you’re visiting Israel, we’d love to have you join us at one of our volunteer experiences. Glean in the fields with our Harvest Helpers project, harvesting fruit and vegetables. The activity takes place at Rishon Lezion fields in central Israel. We also have Leket on the Move, in which you sort and pack rescued fruit and vegetables in the Gan Haim Logistics Center (central Israel) for distribution to our non-profit partners.

Interested in Helping? Please contact Elena, [email protected], to find out more. Facebook: www.facebook.com/LeketIsrael Instagram: www.instagram.com/leket_israel Twitter: twitter.com/leketisrael