JNF:About

JNF is the UK’s leading humanitarian Israel charity. We don’t do politics. We do water, trees, housing and human beings. We raise funds for the building blocks of everyday life in Israel – the peaceful, life-creating stuff you never read about in the British media – such as reservoirs, irrigation systems, desalination plants, forest planting, recycling schemes, roads, housing and healthcare centres.

When hard times hit, we’re there too. We provide shelter for families made homeless by terrorist attacks and acts of aggression from Israel’s neighbours. And we help rebuild the infrastructure of their communities.

In Britain, we run an education programme in all Jewish schools and non-Jewish ones too, so that support for life in Israel is maintained now and for ever. For many, JNF has been their first connection with Israel and the beginning of a lifelong relationship.

Throughout the year, we run a series of fundraising events across the UK. Some are big and well known like the JNF Car Rally, now in its 11th year. Some take people out to Israel to do sponsored initiatives, like Walk For Water. And many are smaller events organised under the JNF umbrella by over 50 committees that we support through our network of regional offices with our resources and charity know-how.