Many Israelis are intimately familiar with the agony of terrorism and war. And when the worst happens, families need extensive outside support just to face their day to day, painful new normal.

Avior’s founder knows this disorientation all too well. As a child, his beloved brother, Avraham Bar Or, was murdered in a suicide bombing on his way back from Bar Mitzvah preparations at the kotel. With their own lives changed forever, they resolved to support similar families through life cycle events and crisis situations.

Since its inception, Avior has received dozens of applications every month that require immediate medical and legal/financial assistance. Avior assumes this financial burden, funding healing treatments that make a difference; and together with lawyers and financial advisors solve intricate issues that might have reduced families to poverty. In some cases financial assistance is allocated.

Avior hosts shabbatot, chagim, and unique therapeutic summer camps; as well as working to match simcha sponsors with bar and bat mitzvah age adolescents so their simcha is not forgotten in the turmoil and their coming of age experience isn’t at odds with their social crowd, at this very awkard age.

We’re launching a campaign on the day that Avraham was taken from us. This will fund a spacious programming center for victims of terror and their families, a real bayit cham, where we can provide the assistance families so desperately need and support the growing number of referrals our hotline gets every day.

We cannot go back to our own routines knowing what they are going through; we cannot read the next headline forgetting about the people behind the previous headline. Behind these news items, there are teenagers suddenly left to fill an adult parental role to their own siblings. They are all dear and wonderful people, children young and old or the elderly, coping with loss or resulting dysfunction, along with the daily terrors that will accompany them for a very long time and they all desperately need the appropriate treatment so they aren’t left with irreversible emotional scars.

Please join us in honoring Avraham’s memory, so we can help victims of terror and bereaved families succeed and build their future.

With your donation families don’t have to contemplate empty seats at their tables but instead can attend Avior shabbatot and chagim.

With your donation, a sibling, parent or victim will receive the therapies they need.

With your donation we can ensure that bereaved families receive the entitlements due to them, with discretion and professionalism.

With your donation we can share the joy of a bar mitzvah party at the Kotel when it’s so hard to celebrate.

Most importantly, we can do all this, under one roof, catering to disabled program users and bigger families.

WE NEED YOUR HELP !!!

Loved ones can be commemorated with the generous funding of classrooms, treatment rooms, doors, windows, seating areas, library, equipment, and furniture; you can be a part of this massive effort to assist victims of terrorism with the needs they can barely articulate.

All donations are tax deductible 501(c)3.

Thank you,

The Avior Association

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