The Idan & Batia Ofer Family Foundation was established with a mission to support sustainable solutions to social issues through various visionary projects in the fields of health, education, welfare, art and culture - with a particular focus on children.
The Foundation has been supporting numerous causes since its inception, including substantial donations to the Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv and sponsoring the research of Prof. Ronit Satchi-Fainaro, one of Israel’s female leading scientists, who is working under the Israel Cancer Research Fund. The Foundation also supports educational programs throughout the world, including the construction of the Sammy Ofer Centre at London Business school, the largest single donation to a UK educational institution.
The Foundation has been focusing on children and their welfare and made donations to organizations such as Make-A-wish, Sisma (a not-for-profit social learning enterprise) and Meshulash.
The Idan & Batia Ofer Family Foundation has also made a substantial gift to the Harvard Kennedy School, granting yearly scholarships to Israeli Jewish and Arab students, and funded the construction of the new Art Wing at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design - Israel’s most prestigious academic institution of art, design and architecture.
Across the work of the foundation, it has supported multiple causes in Israel, UK and USA and impacted over a million lives.
Recently, following the outbreak of war in Ukraine, the Foundation has stepped in to save 600 Ukrainian families by evacuating them from their war-torn cities to Varna, Bulgaria. They have rented homes and accommodation for them and have started the redevelopment of a new school building to educate the displaced children. They have created a safe haven for the traumatized refugees and are supporting the move also by funding clothing, food and medical supplies.