We buy the small equipment a unit can't wait a quarter for — a 3D printer, a spare part, a specific tool — with donor money, at retail, in the same week the need comes up.
Donations are not tax-deductible. The reason is in the FAQ.
Military procurement is built for scale: thousands of rifles, tons of rations, fleets of vehicles. It moves slowly on purpose, because at that scale mistakes are expensive. The trouble is that a ₪4,000 printer for a unit workshop goes through the same signatures and the same budget committees, and arrives months after it mattered.
The units this fund works with solve technical problems for the ground forces. They prototype fixtures, repair field equipment, and adapt commercial gear to military use. Ask them what slows the work down and the answer is rarely skill or motivation. It is usually a specific item, available in any store, sitting in a queue.
No campaigns and no earmarks. Pooling is what makes the speed possible: when a need is verified, the money is already there.
Requests come from people serving in the units the fund grew out of. Each one is checked with unit leadership before anything is bought.
Off the shelf, usually within the week. The receipt is kept, and the purchase is published here without unit names or locations.
Representative categories at street prices. Every actual purchase is published after delivery. The fund does not buy weapons, ammunition, or anything that needs a defense or export license.
There is no charity registration behind this fund. US and UK charitable law makes registering one for foreign military equipment somewhere between slow and impossible, and we would rather stay fast and say so than stretch the truth. Treat a donation as a personal gift.
It is an independent initiative, not affiliated with or endorsed by the army. Deliveries are accepted by unit leadership, but no one in uniform runs this.
Unit names, locations, faces, and open equipment gaps stay off this site. Publishing what specific units lack would be a gift to the wrong audience, so purchases are described in general terms, after delivery.
The fund does not buy weapons, ammunition, weapon accessories, or licensed equipment. Printers, parts, tools, batteries.
The fund is run by Aryeh Lev Mason, working with personnel in innovation-focused IDF units. There is no staff and no office, and payment-processing fees are the only cost taken out of donations.
Advisors from inside the units will be added and named here as far as security allows.
There is no track record to show yet, and we won't pretend otherwise. If you'd rather watch the first reports land before giving, that's reasonable too.