At the Gaza front, a rabbi representing the newly-formed Chabad-Lubavitch United Front of humanitarian programs helps a tank commander pray and don tefillin. Military censors asked for the background to be removed so as not to reveal the exact location.
Chabad Across Israel Mobilizes: Thousands of Emissaries Aid Millions of Jews
Within hours, Chabad Shluchim’s individual efforts following the attack in Israel coalesced into a massive aid network, and within days an emergency “situation room” was established to lead an all-encompassing program. Ever since, Chabad-Lubavitch of Israel’s United Front program has been on the ground tending to the extraordinarily wide range of humanitarian needs of Israeli civilians and military personnel impacted first by the terrorist attacks, and now by the IDF’s Operation Iron Swords.
