"All of Israel is Arab to one another" is not a cliché. It is a necessary reality in a world that is faced with a challenge that it did not know like in modern times. Jewish communities, small and large, find themselves paralyzed. The Jewish Agency's International Situation Room is flooded with inquiries from all over the world.

The community structure that preserved our people's ability to exist among the peoples of all generations is now in many cases weakened or immobilized. Jewish community committees deal with paralyzed educational and community institutions, tremendous social welfare services, locked and elderly synagogues, and individual Holocaust survivors.

The most worrying reports come from the Jewish community in Italy. It is a proud, strong and old-fashioned community at the heart of a crisis that is going on all over the country.

In private conversations, community presidents tell me that "this is the biggest disaster that has happened to us over the last century, apart from the Holocaust." This is an adult community and so there is a real concern for the lives of many, and unfortunately there is also a death in the community from the virus.

When the crisis began in Italy, we established the Jewish Agency in cooperation with the Foundation and other causes, including Israel's Ambassador to Italy Dror Ider, a special emergency team working to assist Jewish communities across the country with financial and organizational support.

This crisis is embracing the world. The corona virus that strikes all over the world does not distinguish between religion and religion and between people and people. In Spain, France, South Africa and other countries there are Jewish communities in real distress, who are more and who are less.

I have no doubt that humanity will win this battle, but in the meantime, we must see to it that the Jewish community's communal system functions; The educational systems, the youth and the young, the apostles, the Hebrew studies, the security, the synagogues, the nursing homes and the assistance for the elderly, and not the cemeteries. For many years there was no time like this to realize the mutual guarantee. Hence the duty of the State of Israel together with us to reach out to our brothers and sisters in trouble.

Last night, the Jewish Agency broadcast a live performance of the Reichel era to Jewish communities throughout the world, with a sign of prayer for the peace of the world's citizens and Jewish communities. We are constantly thinking outside the box to address the challenges of Jewish communities in the new reality.

One should try in every way possible to help communities in distress in different and creative ways, and especially to embrace them from afar, to fight distantly and to encourage with hope.

Be it written in prayer for the peace of the state written by my grandfather, the first Chief Rabbi of the State of Israel, Rabbi Yitzchak Isaac Halevi Herzog, zt:

let it be.

The writer is the chairman of the Jewish Agency