Keeping people fed: Doktor brothers

Israeli restaurant Ha’Achim (The Brothers) spearheads central hub food operation, with 2,000 volunteers packing and delivering hot meals.

Courtesy Israel21C

Asaf Doktor and Yotam Doktor, co-owners of a Tel Aviv restaurant appropriately named Ha’Achim (The Brothers), converted their 10,000-square-foot restaurant into a central hub for collecting, preparing and distributing hot meals to soldiers and to families affected by the war.

With only 15% of the nation’s restaurants currently open, the brothers and their co-owner, Yaron Ramon, recruited volunteers via social media. They also partnered with Brothers in Arms and World Central Kitchens, a nonprofit that provides people with meals after natural disasters and other crises.

The partnership collaborates with 118 restaurants and food suppliers across Israel to deliver freshly cooked meals to soldiers, evacuees, wounded, and struggling families. To date, they have delivered 200,000 meals nationwide, worth some $3 million.

“In these challenging times, we are witnessing extraordinary resilience and compassion in our community,” said Yotam Doktor.

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