Daniel M., 15, a student at AMIT Ashdod Yeshiva, has been heading a nationwide effort to bring seniors food and medicines, a tremendous service for the country’s most vulnerable citizens, and an example of a student living AMIT values.
With the schools shut down due to COVID-19, Daniel decided not to spend his days staring at video screens, but to recruit his friends and classmates and establish a caravan designed to help seniors and other people in isolation to deliver food and medicine.
Daniel now is heading a national kindness patrol that helps isolated seniors who are alone and having difficulty getting what they need because of the closures in Israel.
Daniel’s initiative took flight, and today he heads a country-wide volunteer organization with more than 200 participants that operate in various cities across Israel. Daniel receives daily requests from people in isolation and directs them to assigned volunteers in the city from where the people live.
Daniel exemplifies what is the best of AMIT. Instead of going inward and focusing on what he may have lost due to the pandemic, he sprung into action, not only with his chesed, but by thinking of Klal Yisrael – the good of the whole nation. This 15-year-old students were living AMIT’s core Jewish values and making a big difference during a very difficult time for many people.
“It was clear to me that I couldn’t sit at home doing nothing and what makes me excited is that I was able to motivate other volunteers across the country,” Daniel said. “I believe that the world is like a puzzle. Everyone does their piece of the puzzle and creates a better world in the process.”
