Lev Echad – Community Crisis Aid is a nationwide voluntary organization, founded in 2005 to create an infrastructure that will enable volunteers to operate in a professional and organized manner in a state of emergency.

Background

Lev Echad was founded with the understanding that, in times of emergency, thousands of volunteers seeking to help local authorities are in need of an effective, organized and coordinated operating mechanism, down to the individual volunteer squad. In times of emergency Lev Echad provides the municipal authorities with professional and devoted recruitments, which allows the municipality to effectively manage thousands of volunteers simultaneously.

Preparing for Emergency during Routine

During routine, Lev Echad trains volunteers across the country according to the organization’s operational doctrine. The organization persistently works to strengthen ties between the authorities and the volunteers, who can function as coordinators during emergency, and to create local preparedness teams. This is done alongside instilling the principles of operating volunteers during emergencies in additional voluntary organizations, with the desire to create a single, effective and experienced national operational doctrine to volunteering in times of emergency.

Associates

Lev Echad is recognized by the Home Front Command, National Emergency Authority, Ministry of Welfare and Ministry of Education, and is an associate in the National Forum of Emergency Organizations of the National Emergency Authority and the National Security Council. In 2012 the Society and Youth Director for the Ministry of Education decided to adopt the organization’s emergency operational doctrine. The two bodies work together in training thousands of teens to volunteer in times of emergency.

Lev Echad – Today and Tomorrow

In light of lessons learned from previous emergencies, and due to the magnitude of the challenges and the dangers that may occur in the area, we wish to take the organization a significant step forward, and turn it into an organization that consistently and actively promotes readiness to volunteer in states of emergency. For this reason we established the Civil Emergency Training Project, which will establish a small team of local coordinators that will work across the country, on a daily basis, to promote readiness.

 

We believe that mutual responsibility is the first line of defence of Israel.

A civil society that knows to come together in a time of crisis is a strong society that will overcome anything, come what may.