b'Helping Indigent Families of Patrolmen stationed at the Jerusalem Barracks of the Israeli Border Patrol In 2014 HOT had, for almost 10 years, been supplying basic food packages or gift cards to supermarkets (with special supplements for the holidays) to 100indigentfamiliesofpatrolmenoftheJerusalem Barracks of the Israeli Border Patrol. What is the Border Patrol? What do they do? They are the menandwomenwhoguardIsraelsbordersandprevent terrorist infiltrations. They are the popular targets for thePalestinianterroristsTOSTAB,TORUNOVER WITH CARS AND TRUCKS, AND TO SHOOT.In2014,welearnedfromtheBaseCommanderandthe units Welfare Officer that there were families of Border Patrolmen who lived in apartments whereinfantssleptonbeds(theydidnothavecribs),two(sometimesthree)children shared a bed or slept on the floor, and/or lived in apartments where the refrigerator or range didnt work. HOT immediately started funding the purchase, delivery, and installation of cribs, beds, and appliances for these families. We have spent more than $500,000 on food, appliances and furniture to help indigent families of these brave young men and women whose families would otherwise be living in deplorable poverty. We cant allow these families to live this way while their brother, sister, husband or wife risks his or her life every minute of every day. We cant. We just cant.Readers of the Fall 2015/Winter 2016 edition of the HOT News read about our meeting a young patrolman 4 days after he had been knifed in the neck and heart. I confess I was, and am, unable to relay the emotions that went through our minds at his bedside. Such courage, such pride, cannot be put in words, and certainly cannot be adequately conveyed on paper. Sadly,ourJune2017visittotheBorderPatrolhadnosuchmiracle.Thistimeayoung PatrolwomanwasstabbedintheOldCityofJerusalemandwhilethemedicsgottoher quickly, her wounds were so massive that she couldnt be saved. An irony here is that her family was one we had helped just a few short years ago.The Border Patrol is now receiving food for the families of these brave young people from othersources,butHOTistheonlyorganizationpurchasingappliancesandbasic furnishings for these families.How much help will we be asked for this year? Who knows? Will the requests come from only the Jerusalem barracks or will it include other units in Israel? We dont know, but what we do know is that we may not have the resources to keep meeting these continuing and critical needs without donor designations, AND if we dont supply these basic requirements of life it nobody else will. My best guess is we will need at least $50,000 of designated gifts to ensure that we have sufficient funding to meet the needs of all these families.This is not a Wish Listthis is a Necessity List. We cant let the families of these brave young men and women live in squalor. We just cant. 8'