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Fountain Hills resident Robert Donfeld joins volunteer effort in Israel

‘Everybody there was from someplace else’

Robert Donfeld (left) took a trip to Israel to volunteer.

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Robert Donfeld (right) helps cut kosher beef jerky for Israeli soldiers.

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On his first day volunteering, Donfeld worked in a vegetable warehouse packing boxed food for those in need.

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Kosher jerky is a source of protein for Israeli soldiers.

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Sitting in his Fountain Hills home watching international news on television, Robert Donfeld felt a knot forming in his gut as he witnessed the events unfold over the last few months in Israel.

A member of the Fountain Hills Chabad, Donfeld wanted to help.

“When you’re here in the United States and all you see is the news, you feel helpless,” Donfeld said, a retired Pima County Superior Court judge. “We know what the U.S. reaction was after 9/11 and Oct. 7 was Israel’s 9/11.”

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