The IDF provides the volunteers with weapons, and values their eyes and ears on the ground. The volunteers are familiar with the terrain and residents there, and the RRTs work with the IDF to help prevent terrorist infiltrations. “Rather than respond to situations,” explained Danziger, “we formed an ideologically based organization, an umbrella for all things, to seek to change the situation.” Some of their projects include Nachalat Yehuda that designs and makes armored vests for distribution to RRTs, medics and families; Haganat Hayishuv that teaches defense and provides early warning detection systems; and security g’machim (community charity organizations) to lend protective vests and helmets to men, women, and children on the borders or in communities under threat, facing rocket attacks, or dangerous road travel.

MY provides medical aid before, during, and after an attack with portable trauma units and rehabilitative equipment, and legal assistance with the Matir Assurim progam, a Jewish legal fund. Project Ezri offers vocational training courses in organic farming, carpentry, metalwork, masonry, construction, organic raising of chickens, goats and sheep for troubled youth pre-, post and during army service. Another project is Ovdei Ha’aretz, helping communities redeem, secure, clear, cultivate and irrigate land for organic vineyards and olive and fruit orchards to enable agriculturally based industries and self-sufficiency in these areas.