If there is no existing B4I book drive in your immediate area
you can help enormously by starting a book drive of your own. 
All persons helping Books for Israel are volunteers working on their own time between whatever jobs or responsibilities they might have.  There are no paid positions, stipends, or compensations of any kind provided to any of us. All volunteers taking on this project are doing so to facilitate English language literacy amongst all peoples living in Israel and to promote understanding and peace.

Starting a book drive involves making a books donation campaign, 
fundraising to pay for the postal costs, and volunteers to screen, sort,
and pack the books for mailing.

Please involve others from your community to volunteer in screening, sorting,
labeling, and packing the books.
Books must be second hand and gently used. They can include books on tape and a variety of literature, including reading books, dictionaries and encyclopedias, but the content must be suitable for school-aged young children and teenagers and they must be in shape suitable for handling in a public library setting. Please do not send books with unsuitable content or books which are old and in poor condition.
If your book drive inadvertently finds adult books or very old books in its collection box, please consider selling these at a used book store so as to raise funds to send the selection of suitable books.
See Guidelines in the "Donate Books" section of this website.

We hope that children and educators involved in donating books will be interested in communicating with children in Israel through our newly established educational website, "The Beloved Books Exchange" (see "School Portal").

Each time a new B4I book drive is established, another region of Israeli schools will be able to receive and share donations amongst public school libraries in that area. The project helps encourage English teaching staff from different ethnic, cultural, or religious communities to find material ways to work cooperatively with one another. Books for Israel does not exclude any school populations whatsoever. The more book drives that are established around the world, the more likely that we will reach our goal of supplying books to all Israeli schools, enabling all children of all peoples living in Israel the means to improve their English proficiency in the service of productivity, communication, cooperation, trade, and peace in our region.

If you would like to start a book drive on behalf of Books for Israel and help us with this very important and far-reaching project, please write to us letting us know who you are and the area you would like to organize.  See the instructions on how to run a book drive. When you contact us, we will work with you to choose a community of schools in Israel to adopt.

Please contact:
Rena Cohen
Books for Israel Volunteer Coordinator for North America
The Israel Action Committee of Magen David Sephardic,
IsraelActionMDSC@hotmail.com

IMPORTANT   NOTICE   TO   AMERICA  ON- LINE    E-MAIL   USERS:
It appears that AOL is blocking some or all mail from hotmail
and possibly from other non-AOL servers that are used by Israeli schools.
If you have an AOL address, you may not be able to receive any mail from us,
even if we repeatedly try to respond to your messages.
We are receiving "mail bounced" notifications when we attempt to write to AOL addresses
and we are receiving e-mails from AOL users that complain that we do not reply!
For sake of communication with the organizers of this project
and with the Israeli schools involved in the Books for Israel Project,
we ask you to write to us from an address that will not bounce our communications.
Therefore, if you have an AOL e-mail address,
please open an e-mail address with another server than AOL
and send all your mail concerning this project from that non-AOL address.
Thank you for your help!