Israeli Flying Aid (IFA) is a non-profit, volunteer-based, non-governmental organization (NGO) that aims to provide humanitarian life saving aid and relief to communities in areas stricken by natural disaster or territorial conflicts. Gal Lousky, an experienced volunteer rescue worker and humanitarian relief provider, founded IFA in 2005 in order to meet the needs of people suffering in disaster areas around the world.
 
The IFA Mission 

IFA is committed to reaching any location around the world where people endure hardship and suffering due to natural disasters and violent conflicts.  IFA reaches out to populations that for a variety of reasons are unable to receive help from formal international aid organizations such as the Burmese Delta survivors of cyclone “Nargis”. The professional experts of IFA provide emergency assistance in three aspects: food, medical aid, and post- trauma for those who suffered loss.
IFA is dedicated to providing supplies and assistance for every individual in need, and to transcending political differences, prejudices, race, nationality and creed. IFA has an uncompromising obligation to the victims of disaster and not to their countries, governments, militias, or military that may prevent international assistance to victims. IFA chooses to deliver aid to communities in countries that are hostile toward Israel, such as Iraq, Pakistan, Sudan, Indonesia and others.
Hundreds of IFA volunteers, who leave their families on short notice and risk their lives as they are dispatched to the most remote areas of the world in order to help those most in need, are brave individuals who represent the heart of Israel. IFA reaches out on behalf of the Jewish people in the spirit of peace, love, and
compassion.

Target Populations

IFA specializes in transferring emergency, lifesaving aid to populations in disaster areas, and in particular nations in which the IFA presence is especially significant:
• Nations that have no diplomatic relations with Israel, and are hostile to Israel.
• Nations in which the government is hostile to its own citizens and refuses to allow entrance of foreign lifesaving aid after natural disasters but in effect uses the disaster as a weapon of mass annihilation in order to overturn opposition.
• “Complex regions” in which UN Red Cross teams and NGOs are not allowed entry (e.g., Indian Kashmir following the earthquake, Russian-occupied Georgia, etc.)
 
Testimonials
IFA under the leadership of Ms. Lousky has received glowing accolades from:
 
The Dalai Lama 


The President of Sri Lanka Mr. Mahinda Rajapakse

 
Former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert
 

Former American President Mr. Bill Clinton

 
 
Organization Members

Gal Lousky - CEO and Founder
Gal Lousky, an experienced volunteer rescue worker and humanitarian relief provider, founded IFA in 2005 in order to meet the needs of people suffering in
disaster areas around the world.

Ido Tkacz - Chairman of the board
Ido Tkacz, born in San Francisco US, married to Shira, lives in Naharia.
BSc, Electrical engineer.
Diving instructor SSI.
Member and Instructor in the Israeli police dive unit.

Yoram Yahav - Member of the audit committee
Yoram Yahav is the CEO of TIM (the Technion Institute of Management).  In his position as the senior advisor to the Minister of Industry and Trade, he helped found the US-Israel High Tech Commission. His area of expertise is international marketing and strategy and he has held executive positions at Fortune 500 companies in the United States.  Mr. Yahav holds an MBA degree from the University of California in Los Angeles and has worked and lectured in more than fifty countries around the globe

Kfir Lankri
Kfir Lankri resides by the Sea of Galilee in Israel. He works in law enforcement and is getting his masters degree in law. He is a certified search and rescue division diving instructor, and has been a dedicated volunteer in IFA .Kfir has had the opportunity to land a helping hand. Kfir was deeply touched and moved by the sites and experiences he was exposed to, and feels that the opportunity to help during world disasters changed his life and made him a better person that he is today .

Moshe Edrai - Member of board
CEO of iGlobalMedia

Sarit Vino Elad - Member of board
Actor, singer and a movie dubbed
graduated at “Beit-Zvi”  acting school
acting at Beit Lisin and the Camery theater.
Played in Israeli movies and dubbed some.

Yaron Zinger - Member of the audit committee
Yaron is a research fellow in the department of civil engineering at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. Yaron together with KKL is working on implementing a novel green technology called water biofiltration that he and his colleagues from Monash have developed in order to harvest and treat urban runoff for aquifer recharge. Yaron also serving as helicopters flight engineer (reserve) in the Air-Force, where he got his passion for life saving as part of rescue team within the squadron missions.
 
Service Providers:
Hava Klein - ADV Legal adviser
Public & International Law
Executive LLM Program diploma
Tel Aviv - uni.  Northwestern, Chicago- uni.

Gal Peleg - ADV.

Ehud Yaar, C.P.A (Isr.)