An independent, donor-funded initiative
Small equipment for Israeli combat units. Bought in days, not months.
Army purchasing is slow, even for a ₪900 part. This fund takes donor money and buys the 3D printer, the spare component, or the tool a unit is waiting on — at retail, delivered the same week, posted here after delivery.
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. The trouble is that a small purchase rides the same track: a ₪4,000 3D printer for a technical unit needs the same signatures and budget lines as a fleet order, and it can arrive months after the moment it was needed.
The soldiers this fund serves repair equipment the field breaks, print replacement parts, and adapt off-the-shelf gear for military work. What holds them up is usually not the hard part of the job. It is 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. Actual purchases are posted as they happen.
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, usually inside a week, and handed over through the unit's own chain of command.
You see every purchase
After delivery, the purchase is posted on this site: the item, the price, and what it was for. Receipts are kept for everything.
Where it goes
What the money buys
These are the categories the fund works in, at street prices. Every actual purchase is posted here after delivery, in this format.
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
There is no charity registration behind this fund. US and UK charitable law was not written for buying equipment for a foreign military, and we would rather stay fast and say so than stretch the truth. 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, and every purchase will be posted here with its price as it happens. The record starts with these first gifts.