Agnes & Beny Steinmetz Foundation Partners With Israeli Rehab Centre to Help Muslim Refugee Families From Palestinian Authority and Arab States
Further afield and the ongoing war in Syria is now in its 11th year and has claimed the lives of around half a million Syrian citizens, according to United Nations estimates, and forced an estimated 6.8 million Syrians to flee the country and seek asylum elsewhere. Meanwhile, the Yemeni Civil War, which started in 2014, continues with people still fleeing war-torn Iraq, long after the U.S. invasion to topple Saddam Hussein in 2003, following the 9/11 terror attacks in the United States -- a figure that exceeds 260,000 people, according to UN 2019 data.
- The Tel Aviv-based foundation was established by mining magnate and French-Israeli citizen Beny Steinmetz, in 2006, with the primary focus to provide continuous assistance and support to Israeli and other children in need, as well as funding education and health for at-risk children.
- The foundation also focuses on promoting the world of culture and arts throughout Israel and is a major sponsor of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
- Ongoing tensions between Israel and the Palestinian territories see occasional flare-ups of violence in one of the world's longest-running conflicts, the most recent of which erupted in early August.
- The Agnes & Beny Steinmetz Foundation has donated several million dollars to the centre over the past number of years.