Why we opened this campaign
Updates as of 29 June 2025
While preparing the fundraising page we asked Sara for her lawyer’s invoice. After reviewing the actual costs, we must raise the goal to 30,000 shekels. Together we can still bring this family back to happiness.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________In 2019 Sara repatriated to Israel, bringing not only belongings but a dream — of a home, love, and a real family. She left behind a stable life in Ukraine — a job as a gym instructor, her own apartment, friends. A new chapter began, yet not the one she had hoped for.
From the first month of marriage everything went wrong: control, pressure, devaluation, and soon physical abuse. Pregnancy only intensified the violence. Sara turned to the police many times, receiving little more than formal dismissals. Nine months after her younger son was born, she fled — carrying an infant, a broken heart, and the belief that she could at least save herself and her children.
Four years have passed. She is divorced, but not free. Threats, attempts to pressure her through the child, manipulation, courts, social services, police silence — many rulings simply remain unenforced. Sara is alone with two sons.
The elder is 18, the younger only 5. The younger boy was born with a cranial condition and has already undergone two craniofacial surgeries. More tests and likely another operation lie ahead. Each procedure brings not only physical pain, but fear, waiting, and prayers.
Sara cannot work full-time — not only because of her child, but due to constant anxiety, depression, and severe fatigue. Her overdraft now exceeds 26,000 shekels. She has no means to pay a lawyer, let alone give her children a sense of security.
She is not asking for the impossible. She is asking for help — to protect her children, to cope, to breathe again.
We are raising funds to support Sara and her sons. Every contribution is an investment in real life. Sometimes a single outstretched hand is enough to keep someone from falling.
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