BENCH

Gifts for New Parents in Israel

The gift that is actually for the mother and father — food they do not have to make, sent in the weeks after a birth.

About Gifts for New Parents in Israel

Almost everything a family receives after a birth is for the baby or for the guests. This collection is the exception: it is for the two people who have not slept, are not cooking, and are hosting a stream of visitors in a house nobody has tidied. Ask any Israeli mother what she actually wanted and the answer is a meal she did not have to think about.

Breakfast boxes, hot dishes, family packages, and coffee-and-cake arrangements do that job. So does a bouquet, which is the one thing in the house that week that is purely for her. Choose a delivery date a few days after the birth rather than the day of it — by then the first wave has passed and there is nothing left in the fridge.

What people usually send

  • A breakfast box for the first morning home
  • Hot dishes or a family package covering several meals
  • Flowers for the mother
  • A dessert or chocolate box for the two of them, once the guests have gone