When you get your return, please consider donating 10% - 20% of it to a worthy charitable cause. If this site saved you an accountant's fee, perhaps consider the fee as income that you earned, and donate a percentage of that as well. Professional tax preparation for a simple return costs about $300 in Israel, including VAT.

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Here are some worthy causes. Choose one and tell them that I sent you, or donate to your own favorite cause.

Organization	Description	Contact Info
Ezrat Avot	Provides food, programs, and monetary assistance to elderly residents of Jerusalem.	PO Box 5603, Jerusalem; 02-532-2226
Ezer Mizion	Medical assistance and ambulance service	ezer-mizion.org.il
Zaka	(from their site) "ZAKA volunteers are the ones who search the area for severed body parts of survivors so that the limbs can be rushed to the hospitals for reattachment. They are also the ones who stay at the scene after the police and the ambulances have left, patiently scraping all the remaining bits of flesh and blood off the sidewalks and buildings so that the dead can be buried in full accordance with Jewish tradition. "	zakaisrael.org
Yeshivat Darche Noam	Rigorous Talmudic studies for late starters	darchenoam.org
Kerem Avraham	Afternoon Talmudic studies program	PO Box 43024, Jerusalem; 651-8945
Mercaz Harmony	Inclusion programs and kindergarten for special needs and regular needs children	ganharmony.org PO Box 98135, Jerusalem 91340