When Justin Yehuda asked the readers of his daily newsletter for $5,000 to resupply an Israeli army unit, he thought it might take a week. It took a single day.

Yehuda, the founder of Iron Dome Coffee, sent the appeal on Monday morning to a list that reaches more than 21,000 people. Iron Dome Coffee put in the first $500, and readers covered the rest before the day was out. By the next morning he was following up with a message titled “GOAL MET IN ONE DAY!!” As of this week the campaign had raised $9,434 from roughly 70 donors, and it remains open, with anything raised beyond the goal going to the same unit.

The money is earmarked for food, gear and basic supplies for the unit of a soldier Yehuda asks be identified only by his first name, Dael, out of concern for his security. Dael is a reservist in the Paratroopers Brigade who returned from Syria about three months ago and was then called up again for a 100-day deployment to Lebanon, where his unit was severely under-equipped. He is in the field with barely any signal, Yehuda said, and does not yet know the goal was met.

The campaign is run by Belev Echad, a registered 501(c)(3) based in New York City. Since word spread that the goal was met, Yehuda said, readers have been replying with messages of encouragement for Dael, which he plans to make sure reach him.

“I started Iron Dome Coffee after October 7th because my family was defending the State of Israel and I couldn’t sit at a desk doing nothing,” Yehuda said. “But this week was the first time I watched 30,000 coffee drinkers become something bigger. A soldier is going to turn on his phone in Lebanon and find out that thousands of strangers have his back. That’s Am Yisrael.”

Readers who would like to support the unit can give through the Belev Echad campaign at belevechad.nyc/fundraiser-for-daels-idf-unit.