“For eight years I’ve seen terror destroy peoples’ lives. When someone’s home is wiped out by a Kassam rocket, they are lost. When I came with a check from the Jewish Agency’s SOS Fund I gave them hope. I showed them that they are not forgotten.”

Ofer Baram epitomizes the Israeli sabra (native), brusque on the outside and warm and caring on the inside. For the past 18 years he has worked for the Jewish Agency for Israel, directing and establishing absorption centers for new immigrants from Ethiopia, and carrying out dangerous rescue missions in Yugoslavia and Kosova on behalf of the Jewish Agency. More