Over $38 million was raised at the yearly Friends of the IDF (FIDF) Gala on Thursday night in Los Angeles, California. The night saw exhibitions by Israeli model and performer Moran Attias and David Foster.
Incorporated into the group of onlookers were Robert De Niro, Larry King, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gerard Butler, among different famous people. Likewise incorporated into the gathering of people was National Director and CEO of the FIDF Maj. Gen, (Res.) Meir Klifi-Amir, President Peter Weintraub, and 17 warriors, including some solitary officers who experienced childhood in the US, yet moved to Israel keeping in mind the end goal to join the IDF. The occasion itself was held by business-big shot Haim Saban and his better half Cheryl. One of the biggest gifts originated from Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, originator and leader of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, who gave $6 million. Haim Saban himself gave $5 million, Serge Azria gave $5 million, and siblings Paul and Maurice Marciano gave $5 million. In the mean time, David Hagar gave $3 million, while the guardians of Teddy Sagi gave $3 million. Saban said that "this year points 10 years where my better half and I – who are putting on this occasion – get the opportunity to perceive how the FIDF keeps on giving instructive and welfare administrations to IDF fighters, and how the association keeps on tackling the energy of the Los Angeles people group." One of the most passionate parts of the Gala was when Ohad Benyichai – the trooper who experienced the most broad wounds of Operation Protective Edge – entered the occasions lobby with his folks in the wake of being flown by and by to Los Angeles by Haim Saban… … The Friends of the IDF is a non-benefit association which has been working in the US for a long time, and was established by Holocaust survivors who moved to the United States. The association gets $100 million consistently for the welfare of IDF fighters. The association helps IDF warriors from devastated families, and enables solitary troopers who to have no close family in Israel, among other magnanimous activities.
