Dear Friends, We hope that this letter finds you and your loved ones healthy and safe. It was our intention to have the annual IDF kiddush this coming shabbat in memory of our beloved son, Ilan z”l, and in honor of the 83 members of our Rinat family that have served in the IDF, including 17 on active duty. In past years, we described the projects that Rinat has been blessed to contribute to through the IDF kiddush, and a similar tzedakah initiative was planned for this year. Due to the current COVID-19 pandemic, we decided that at this time, it is most important to focus on the needs of our neighbors and friends. We have therefore opted to take the same contribution that would have gone toward the kiddush, and donate it to the Rabbi’s Discretionary Fund, to aid Rinat members who will most benefit from financial support at this time. Our goal for the IDF kiddush has always been to bring the community together in friendship and celebration by recognizing our chayalim and chayalot, and through a community-wide tzedakah project that feels meaningful to Ilan’s memory. While the shuttered doors of the shul and the unknown amount of time for social distancing don’t allow us to have the kiddush at this time, our efforts continue:

● Everyone is encouraged to join us in reaching out to our families with lone soldiers. For those with children quarantined at their bases, it feels especially isolating to be so far away. Your personal support is so emotionally strengthening at this time.

● Last year, Rabbi Adler began a tradition of sending divrei torah to our members in the IDF each Rosh Chodesh, and he continues to do so.

● We are including the listing of Rinat soldiers below as a recognition and celebration of their commitments to Am Yisrael and Eretz Yisrael.

● For those looking to contribute in honor of any of the members on the list, we suggest adding to private donations to the Rabbi’s Discretionary Fund toward financial relief for the Rinat community.https://www.rinat.org/form/RDF

We feel confident, and those that knew him personally would agree, that Ilan z”l would have been on the frontlines in finding creative and meaningful ways to contribute during these difficult and uncertain times. We look forward to better circumstances next year so that we can continue our efforts together in a communal setting. Warmly, Reva and Aaron Tokayer

Asher Chaim Krohn, Nativ, 2019,

grandson of Risa and David Krohn

Asher Stein, Intelligence, 2019,

grandson of Elke and Kalman Stein Eitan Klavan, Shiryon, 2019, grandson

of Miriam and Irving Klavan

Gabi Benchabbat, Yahalom, 2019, son of Carolyn and Danny Diller

Yonatan Benchabbat, Tzanchanim, 2019, son of Carolyn and Danny Diller

Gideon Benchabbat, Tzanchanim, 2018 son of Carolyn and Danny Diller

Leora Kohn, Tanks, 2017, daughter

of Jessica and Yehuda Kohn

Lior Chasid, Shiryon, 2015, grandson

-in-law of Miriam and Irving Klavan

Not pictured: Dael Bejar, Golani, 2018, son of Amit and Deborah Bejar, Tzvi Silver, Air Corps, 2017, son of Leah and Itzy Silver

Meital Gitler, Intelligence, 2017, grand-

daughter of Susie and David Gitler a”h

Menachem Klavan, Tanks, 2015 grandson of Miriam

and Irving Klavan

Raanan Kwalbrun, Shiryon,

2018, grandson of Tzivia Bieler Shira Gelb, Duvdevan 2019, daughter of

Miriam Holmes and Stephen Gelb

Yehudah Fuksbrumer, Golani, 2016, son

of Deena Yellin and Moshe Fuksbrumer

Zachary Kohn, Combat Engineering, 2019,

son of Jessica and Yehuda Kohn

Chana Brody, Engineering

Intelligence, 2014, daughter

of Marcy Millman and

Simcha Brody

Rinat’s Current Chayalim And Chayalot

We honor our Rinat members who served in the IDF

Shmuel Knoller, Rabanut, 2018Nafi Lieber, Artillery, 2018

Yitzi Rothschild, Engineering, 2018Keren Agus, Air corps, 2017Dovid Berger, Golani, 2017

Sophie Dubitsky, Engineering, 2017Shlomo Kroopnik, Givati, 2017

Gershon Kwalbrun, Orev Nachal, 2017Cobi Rosenberg, Golani, 2017

Shevi Schwartz, Air Corps, 2017Daniella Wind, Sheirut Leumi - Shalva,

2017Yehudah Auerbach, Golani, 2016

Ari Goldberg, Givati, 2016Yakir Greenberg. Tzanchanim, 2016Reuven Klavan, Shomron Regional

Brigade, 2016Hannah Ash, Sherut Leumi - Chorev

School, 2015Sarah Agus Bina, Intelligence 2015

Aryeh Bina, Intelligence,2015Nathan Fishman, Tanks 2015

Noam Fromowitz, Shiryon, 2015Chaim Kanarek, Tzanchanim, 2015

Sarah Kirshner, Sherut Leumi - Tzemach HaSadeh School, 2015

Malka Schnaidman, Sherut Leumi, IDF Widows & Orphans Org., 2015

Nediva Sussman, Sherut Leumi - Sh’arei Tzedek, 2015

Raphael Benchabbat, Tzanchanim, 2014Aaron Buechler, Handasa Kravit, 2014Rachaeli Ferber, Sherut Leumi, 2014Eliora Hager, Mashakiet Tash, 2014

Sam Mendes, Search and Rescue, 2014DJ Newman, Golani, 2014Raffi Weisen, Golani, 2014

Daniel Baran, Chemical Engineer, 2013

Hannah Erbfarb, Electronic Warfare, 2013

Michael Goldman, Tzanchanim, 2013Josh Last, Nachal , 2013Nati Wind, Golani, 2013

Dovid Gottesman, Tzanchanim, 2012Sarit Forman-Derin, Sherut Leumi, 2011

David Derin, Tzanchanim, 2011Ezra Hausdorff , Artillery, 2011

Arky Staiman, Tzanchanim. 2011Dani Forman, Totchanim 2010

Daniel Gross, Kfir, 2010Mordechai Gilbert, Nachal, 2010Yeruchem Berkowitz, Kfir, 2009

Ben Mendes, Combat Engineering, 2009

Noam Tokayer, Search and Rescue, 2009

Shai Abelman, Nachal, 2008Yitz Landes, Tank commander, 2008

Danielle Ffiner-Siegel, Tatzpit Tanit, 2008

Jon Mendes, Intelligence, 2008Yossi Klavan, Battalion Manpower, 2007

Rafi Rubin, Tanks, 2007Uri Westrich, Shiryon, 2006Ilan Hoffman, Nachal, 2006Danit Leben, Nachal, 2005

Ilan Tokayer z”l, G’dud Lavi, 2005Aaron Frolich, Nachal, 2004

Kobi Luria, Givati, 2004Zvi Landsman, Pikud Haoref, 2003

Eitan Ben-David, Nachal , 2002Yonah Berman, Tanks, 2002

Ezra Levine, Search and Rescue, 2002Ilan Prager, Golani, 1997

Daniel Wolf, Hativah Sheva, 1991Shlomo Sudry, Intelligence, 1988