Mordechai "Moti" Kahana (Hebrew: מוטי כהנא; born February 28, 1968) is an Israeli-American businessman and philanthropist.

He also organized additional aid, delivering donated blankets, food and water to victims in affected areas.

[citation needed] In 2011, Kahana founded the "Amaliah" organization, dedicated to aiding civil society and for the empowerment of women in the Middle East.

[14][15] In 2015, Kahana aided the efforts to return Canadian-born Israeli citizen Gill Rosenberg, who had left for Syria in order to join the Kurdish rebels in their fight against ISIS.

For this effort, Kahana raised donations and directed the operations on the field, collecting the many scrolls and books from the ancient synagogue.

[22][23][24] In 2016, Kahana, with the "Amaliah" organization, brought sick Syrian children from Quneitra to Israeli hospitals, and sent them back, after they were cured, with medical equipment and medicine.

[26] Simintov initially refused to leave, allegedly because he didn't wanted to grant his wife a decree of divorce, but later accepted and with Rabbi Mendy Chitrik of the Alliance of Rabbis in Islamic States a divorce was arranged and he was rescued by Kahana's security company along with 30 Afghan women and children.

[27][28] In March 2022, Kahana assisted in rescuing 200 Jewish orphaned children who needed help following the Russian invasion to Ukraine.