Established in 1980, Yad Eliezer aims to combat poverty on the individual, family, communal, and national levels by providing critical short-term relief while simultaneously confronting the underlying causes of indigence through forging broad-based solutions that empower long-term financial and psychological stability. Each component of Yad Eliezer’s comprehensive welfare system contributes towards the fulfillment of its mandate to engender economic recovery and social development in Israel. This system includes nationwide distribution of essential food, clothing, and household items, job training, dental care, adolescent mentoring programs (Big Brothers/Sisters), medical support, assistance to widows and orphans, early learning intervention, and more.