A New Jersey-based foundation is granting $5 million to a Jewish Agency for Israel initiative providing subsidized housing for senior citizens in Israel.
The Wilf Family Foundation announced the grant to the the Senior Affordable Housing Initiative, which is planning to build about 3,000 affordable housing units for seniors on 17 sites in nine cities across Israel. The initiative’s first site is under construction in Tel Aviv.
There is currently a waiting list of 27,000 low-income Israeli seniors — half of them Holocaust survivors — for subsidized housing.
Several other donors have committed more than $27 million to The Jewish Agency project, including the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation; the Claims Conference; the Belz Foundation; the Coopersmith Charitable Trust; the Iranian Jewish Federation; and Keren Hayesod donors from South America, Sweden, and Holland.
The building will be dedicated in the fall as the Joseph Wilf Building, according to The Jewish Agency.
— JTA
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