As word got around, other families requested the same assistance, and she was soon sending all her daughters' classmates out to collect food, then filling colorful plastic shopping baskets for the weekly delivery.

[3] Yad Eliezer provides monthly food packages, comprising basic necessities such as "eggs, oil, flour, sugar, and canned goods" and fresh produce to 6,000 families throughout Israel.

[7] In response to government welfare budget cuts, Yad Eliezer distributed 9,000 Passover food packages in 2004, up 5,000 from the previous year.

[8][9] Thirty-five percent of the food is gathered from Israeli farmers' surplus,[8] amounting to $3 million worth of fruits and vegetables annually.

[8] Regular and drop-in volunteers – including students, soldiers, and visitors from abroad – help in the warehouse, sorting food by category and boxing the monthly distribution.

This operation expanded into catering three or four weddings per week and the hiring of impoverished waiters and waitresses who were invited to take home the leftover food.

[12][13] In 2005 Yad Eliezer purchased the Armonot Wolf wedding complex on Beit Hadfus Street in Givat Shaul, Jerusalem for $4 million.