An independent, donor-funded initiative
Israeli soldiers wait months for basic equipment. We get it there in days.
A ₪900 part can sit in the army's purchasing queue for months. This fund takes donor money and buys the 3D printer, the spare component, or the tool a unit is waiting on — at retail, delivered in days, not weeks.
Donations are not tax-deductible. The reason is in the FAQ.
The problem
Army purchasing was built for big orders
The Israeli army buys at national scale — vehicles, ammunition, food for hundreds of thousands of soldiers. That system is deliberate and slow, and for the big things the caution is right. Small purchases move through the same bureaucracy, and in our experience a ₪4,000 printer or a ₪900 part can arrive months after the moment it was needed.
The fund serves a wide range of units, wherever it can help: a combat unit whose critical infrastructure breaks, a reconnaissance unit down a camera sensor, a workshop waiting on a printer. What stalls them is usually a small item, in stock at a store down the road, waiting in a queue.
That queue is what this fund exists to skip.
Representative timeline for a small off-the-shelf purchase.
How it works
From your card to a unit, in four steps
Donations go into one pooled fund
There are no campaigns and no earmarks. Pooling is what makes the speed possible — when a request is verified, the money is already there.
Soldiers flag what's missing
Requests come from soldiers serving in the units the fund works with. Each one is checked with the unit's commanders before anything is bought.
We buy it at retail
Off the shelf, in days rather than weeks, and handed over through the unit's own chain of command.
We report back
Receipts and records are kept for every purchase. We publish our costs and share what we can about where the money went.
Where it goes
What the money buys
The categories the fund works in, at street prices.
Never purchased: weapons, ammunition, weapon accessories, or anything that needs a defense or export license.
Before you give
Four things you should know
Donations are not tax-deductible
The fund is being set up as a registered nonprofit, and donations sit in a dedicated bank account — but none of that makes a gift deductible in the US or UK, and we won't claim it before it is real. For now, treat a donation as a personal gift.
The fund is independent of the IDF
It is not run, endorsed, or funded by the army. Deliveries go through unit commanders and nothing is bought without their sign-off, but this is a private initiative and it says so plainly.
Some details stay off the site
Unit names, base locations, soldiers' identities, and what a specific unit is currently missing are never published — a list like that would be useful to the wrong people. Purchases are described in general terms, after delivery.
No weapons, ever
The fund buys printers, parts, tools, and batteries. It does not buy weapons, ammunition, weapon accessories, or anything that requires a defense or export license.
Who runs it
A named person, not an organization
The fund is run by Aryeh Lev Mason, working directly with soldiers in the Israeli units it serves. There is no staff and no office, and the card-processing fee is the only cost taken out of a donation.
Questions before giving are welcome, and the person who answers is the person who runs the fund: contact@defenseofinnovation.com
The fund is open
Help make the first purchases
The fund is new. Your gift goes to the next verified need, and the costs are published as purchases happen.