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A volunteer organization in Israel, Ezra LeMarpeh, operates to ease the suffering of the sick and their families in Israel. Founded in 1979, the organization provides assistance, advice, and medical equipment in Israel to anyone who needs it.

• Motto: "We Answer Every Call with Full Attention & Care."
  • "Ezra" Hebrew = (Help, Aid)
  • "Lemarpe" Hebrew = (To speed up recovery, Recoveree)

Also see: Firer, Avraham Elimelech; Rabbi The founder of Ezra LeMarpeh

The Ezra Lemarpeh Organization was founded in 1979, with the goal of alleviating the suffering of the sick and their families who care for them, by offering a wide range of activities for their benefit. The motto that was etched on its flag was: "We Answer Every Call with Full Attention & Care."

The organization works quietly and modestly, away from the limelights, with hundreds of thousands of people who were helped serving as loyal witnesses to its contribution in helping them during their difficult time of illness.

The organization offers its services to anyone who needs them, from all sectors of the population, across the country. The hands of the hundreds of volunteers are full of work, day and night, as they try to fulfill the vital mission that they have shouldered.

All of the services are available to anyone and everyone, free of charge!

The Ezra Lemarpeh Organization is a non-profit institution, with regular bookkeeping as required by law, under the supervision of a certified accountant, Mr. Zelig Weizman.

The organization works in different fields for the benefit of the sick, including the following:

• Lending medical equipment
• Flying patients to medical centers across the world
• Ambulance services across the country
• Importing rare medicines according to doctor's prescription
• Visiting the sick & humanitarian aid
• Blood donations in emergencies
• Counselling & referral to medical experts
• Home Care Program for children with cancer
• Medical Education & Instruction Unit
• Emotional support and encouragement
• International Tele-medicine Video Conference
• Second opinion clinic with professional experts
• Rehabilitation Day Care Center
• Special Club for special children
• Hosting healthy children whose parents are in hospital

The organization center is located in Bnei Brak, in a building that is named after Pesach; of blessed memory, and his wife Chana; may she be granted a long life,- Zipporen, who donated the money needed to purchase the impressive building on 24, Chida Street. In addition, the organization works through its branches in the following locations across Israel:

• • Ashdod - 1, Habosem Street
  • Jerusalem - 14, Gesher Hachaim Street (independent branch)
  • Kiryat Shmoneh - 22, Dan Dayan Street
  • Ra'anana - 186 Achuza Street
  • Ramat Gan - 10-12 Lev Hazahav Street (At Ginat Habosem)
  • Qedumim - 27 Shoham Street