01 About the mission
It started with a list from a commander. It ends nowhere near there.
collect and deliver essential supplies and support to our soldiers and their families — and, three years on, to stay with the ones who came home carrying it.
Hi, my name is Ivan Sacks. I am a 66-year-old financial advisor living in Dallas, Texas with my wife and children. However, after October 7th, 2023, my entire life mission was shifted: I couldn’t sit back while our brothers and sisters were fighting for their lives.
People started referring to me as “Agent Ivan” and that’s how this website was built.
I have connected to a few credentialed, legitimate organizations in Israel. I am getting first-hand information regularly from the bases and the soldiers on what the soldiers are in dire need of so that they are ready for all situations on the battlefield. These items are requested by the commanders of the units.
If our assistance can save a life or aid a soldier in battle, we would have done our job.
Ivan Sacks, 2023
02 Phase one · 2023–2025 · complete
How the bags moved
For two years this was a logistics problem, and Dallas solved it.
Ordered, then packed
In the Amazon list are the items needed, and necessary. If you purchase on the Amazon link it gets delivered to me, and I get them packaged into duffle bags so they are ready to go with the first courier.
Documents for customs
I supply each carrier with the necessary travel documents to pass through customs, so nothing is held up on arrival.
Urgency, not economy
We want the soldiers to get the items as soon as possible. For this approach we have to pay a courier fee, but we will do whatever it takes to get these bags to our soldiers ASAP. We have looked at other forms of transportation but they don’t meet the urgent mode. Our mission is urgent.
A great example is the Leatherman Scissors, which enables the medical units to cut the uniforms or boots to get access to the injured area. The difference between having one or not could be a LIFE saved or tragically a DEATH.
Ivan Sacks — why we explained every item on the list03 Phase two · now · active
Two fronts at once
The war did not end. It moved — to Lebanon and Iran — while the casualty list from the last three years kept growing indoors, in rehabilitation wards and living rooms.
100,000 reservists are mobilised, with three divisions on the Lebanese front; many are on their third or fourth call-up since 2023. Behind them, Israel’s Ministry of Defense is caring for 82,400 wounded veterans and expects 100,000 by 2028, roughly 50,000 of them for mental injuries. Of everyone who entered the system since 7 October 2023, 58% is being treated for PTSD or another mental health condition.
A duffel bag was the right answer to the first problem. It is not the answer to this one. Phase two is money: support for soldiers still serving, and direct help for those in recovery — the injured, those living with PTSD, and the families carrying them through it.
Mobilisation: Reported August 2026 — Times of Israel, CNN, Anadolu Agency. Rehabilitation: Israel Ministry of Defense Rehabilitation Department, reported 2025–2026. National figures, not Agent Ivan’s — they are the reason phase two exists. Last verified 2 August 2026.
04 Why it gets harder from here
Our attention peaked in 2024. The war didn’t.
Everyone gave in the first year. That was the easy year — the need was visible, the images were everywhere, and the ask was a box you could buy in four clicks.
Neither of the jobs left works like that. Call-ups keep coming, and rehabilitation is slow, unphotogenic and expensive — it arrives long after the cameras leave. The Ministry has warned its own rehabilitation system is at risk of collapse. That is the gap this community can stand in.
05 Looking back
How the first fifteen bags got there
An interview with Ivan and Hillel Rodin from December 2023 describes the first two-week trip: the duffel bags a neighbour had filled, the letters collected from Dallas schoolchildren, and the WhatsApp appeal that funded the flight.
Phase one proved this community shows up.
More than 150 duffel bags have been sent so far! Phase two is longer, quieter, and needs the same people — for years, not weeks.