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Ichlu Reim provides delivery of a nutritious daily meal to residents of a Jerusalem elder hostel Beit Gil HaZahav)in keeping with the urgent request of the facility’s administration and the residents, elderly immigrants from the former Soviet Union. Meal provision is not within the scope of the elder hostel’s charter and the residents limited stipends leave them without adequate financial means to provide nutritious meals for themselves in their small apartments.
The residents of the Beit Gil HaZahav are elderly immigrants from the Former Soviet Union ages 70- early 90s. They include World War II veterans, and others who suffered deeply from the bitter anti-Semitism of the era (including incarceration in Stalin’s slave labor camps), although they are not officially recognized as Holocaust survivors (and receive neither repatriation money from Germany nor an Israeli Survivors pension). Others are former "refuseniks" who lost any social benefits they may have accrued during their working years in the former Soviet Union. Residents subsist on a standard Israeli pension, combined with a National Insurance benefit grants, which do not cover all of the bare essential living costs.
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The following is a letter of appreciation written by the Gil Hazahav Old Age Home: Following this is a translation in English.
From Maya Doydkovitch – Social Worker
 thank you for your dedicated and faithful service at our hostel. I wish to point out that this project is important for our elderly residents, it is a support, and a source of warm sentiment. I thank you again for your volunteer service, for your warm demeanor, for your concern for those elderly that have gone through a lot in life – and that thanks to you can now benefit from your dedicated service. I hope that you will continue to be a source of joy to those who are in need and help in the best way possible.
From all of the employees and tenants, we thank you,
Maya Doydkovitch – Social Worker 
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