These are people we have met on the streets of Tel Aviv. Each one has a name, a story, and people praying for them. This page exists because no one who walks through our doors should be forgotten.
Kheit
We met Kheit in a moment of complete crisis. She was consumed by rage and desperation, and the chaos around her was palpable. We could not reach her that day. But we saw her, and we remember her name.
Pray for Kheit. Pray that the chains holding her break, that the rage gives way to peace, and that the next time we see her we can sit with her and she can receive what she truly needs.
Aghsan
Aghsan is a young Arab woman with one leg amputated below the knee. She has been working with us for several months. She cleaned herself up and found a place in a hostel. But her wheelchair broke and left her unable to move, unable to reach us, and vulnerable to attack. We worked to get her a new one. When she came to receive it and sat in it for the first time, her reaction said everything. She was overjoyed. It was a small thing that changed everything.
Pray for Aghsan. Pray that this new mobility opens the next door for her, that she stays safe, and that the rehabilitation she has been longing for becomes possible very soon.
Nisreen
Nisreen stood quietly nearby while we were talking with someone else. When the moment was right, she stepped forward and said softly that she wants to leave the streets. That kind of quiet courage is often the hardest kind.
Pray for Nisreen. Pray that the desire she voiced that day does not fade, that she is ready when we come for her, and that the streets she has known for so long are not where her story ends.
Joseph
Joseph is from Sudan and we see him almost every week. He wants to go to rehab. When we talk about faith his eyes light up, and he believes in Jesus with a sincerity that is impossible to miss. We have grown very fond of him.
Pray for Joseph. Pray that the faith alive in his eyes takes root deeply enough to carry him through rehabilitation, and that the God he believes in makes a clear way forward for him.
Omar
Omar came to Israel from Turkey looking for work. He lost his job and now has no way to get home. He is not on drugs or on the streets by choice. He is simply stuck, far from home, with no way back.
Pray for Omar. Pray that a way opens for him to return safely to Turkey, and that what began as a desperate situation becomes a story he can one day look back on with gratitude.
Roman
Roman is a truck driver. He is ready to enter rehabilitation. That readiness is not a small thing. It is the hardest step.
Pray for Roman. Pray that the door to rehabilitation opens quickly, that his resolve stays strong, and that the life waiting for him on the other side is worth every difficult day of the journey.
Natasha
When we met Natasha she was covered in flies and deeply neglected. She needs basic hygiene supplies and basic human dignity restored to her.
Pray for Natasha. Pray that she receives care, that someone sits with her and tends to her, and that the neglect she has endured does not have the final word over her life.
Annie
Annie’s baby, Tom, was taken from her. It is a grief she can hardly speak of. We sat with her and we heard what little she could say.
Pray for Annie. Pray for the pain she carries every day, that she finds the strength and the support to fight for restoration, and that Tom knows his mother never stopped loving him.
Alex
Alex knows Jesus and wants to get off methadone. He knows his life cannot stay the same but he needs support and encouragement to take the next step. Once before he took our number and then disappeared. We found him again.
Pray for Alex. Pray that the encouragement he needs comes at the right moment, that he does not disappear again, and that the next step becomes possible for him very soon.
Daniel
Daniel came to us on November 9 and said he wants to leave the street. He showed us photos of his life before addiction. He looked strong and full of joy in those photos. He once had a stable job and a good home. He wants a way back. The one thing standing between him and rehabilitation is his elderly dog, which he refuses to leave behind. We are looking for a rehab that will accept them both.
Pray for Daniel. Pray that we find the right place for him and his dog, that his determination holds, and that the man in those photos is not gone but only waiting to return.
Johan
Johan is from Russia. We met him on November 16. He cried without stopping. He used to be a boxer, and he described what addiction had done to his body with a painful clarity that stayed with us. We made a plan to take him somewhere safe and asked him to wait. When we came back he was gone.
Pray for Johan. Pray that he is alive, that someone reached him, and that we cross paths again before it is too late.
Uri
Uri asked us to pray for deliverance. He has been through rehabilitation three times and still fights the same chain. He looked tired, but he came to us and asked. That matters.
Pray for Uri. Pray that this time is different, that the weariness he carries becomes the very thing that breaks the cycle, and that the freedom he is desperate for finally becomes his.
Marina
Marina cried when we gave her a sandwich and a drink. She told us she would love to have teeth again so she could chew her food properly. She showed us a photo of herself from seven years ago. The contrast was painful. She is losing hope, and that is what worries us most.
Pray for Marina. Pray that someone restores her dignity in a practical way, that the woman in that photo seven years ago is not gone, and that hope finds its way back to her.
Fatma
Fatma has accepted a sad life because expecting change feels too risky. She has stopped hoping in order to stop being disappointed.
Pray for Fatma. Pray that the risk of hope becomes less frightening than the certainty of staying where she is, and that something we said or did that day planted a seed she has not yet noticed.
Esther
Esther had just been released from the hospital when we found her. Seeing her again was a reminder of how unstable life on the street truly is. People disappear, reappear, get sick, recover, and then start all over again. Nothing is secure.
Pray for Esther. Pray that the cycle she is caught in breaks, that her recovery holds this time, and that she finds something stable to hold onto.
Abdullah
Abdullah is from Sudan and has been in Israel for twelve years. His story reflects the quiet, long-term uncertainty that many people on the street live with, not a crisis but a slow erosion, year after year with no resolution in sight.
Pray for Abdullah. Pray that twelve years does not become thirteen without something changing, and that the patience he has carried this long is finally rewarded with a way forward.
Dan
Dan walked through our doors for the first time. When he looked around he said this place is blessed, and that meant more to us than anything.
Pray for Dan. Pray that this is not the last time he walks through these doors, and that what he found here today stays with him.
Marinda
Marinda was in tears when we met her. Her husband had died and in the emptiness that followed she fell into drugs and lost everything. Her deepest wish was simply to have teeth again so she could chew her food. We thought about that for days.
Then she walked into the soup kitchen and when we called her by her name she burst into smiles. She could not believe we remembered. She had come to expect invisibility. Something broke open in her in that moment. We will keep calling her by her name.
Pray for Marinda. Pray that being remembered becomes the beginning of her finding her way back, and that the woman she once was is not lost but only waiting.
David
David has been living on the streets for a long time. Today he looked at us and said he had no words to describe this place, only that it is blessed. That is enough for us.
Pray for David. Pray that he continues to find warmth, food, and dignity here, and that one day he finds his way off the streets entirely.
Ayala
Ayala came in and asked for one thing: shelter. She has no safe place to sleep. We are working to help her find something.
Pray for Ayala. Pray that a door opens for her, that she finds shelter and safety, and that people around her do not abandon her.
Faraj
Faraj is Bedouin, originally from Beer Sheva. Today he lives on the streets of Tel Aviv. He sat down, ate, looked around, and said: may God bless this place and keep it open. That sentence carries the weight of someone who knows what it means to need a place like this.
Pray for Faraj. Pray that this place stays open, that the resources keep coming, and that every time Faraj walks through these doors he finds them wide open.
Taufic
Taufic sat with us and shared something vulnerable. He wants to go to a rehabilitation center and is asking for help taking that step.
Pray for Taufic. Pray that the right door opens for him, that he finds a program, and that the courage he showed today in asking carries him all the way through.