A network of Chabad-Lubavitch run soup kitchens in the Israeli coastal city of Ashkelon is competing for almost $300,000 in an online voting-based competition sponsored by Bank Leumi.

According to Chai Ashkelon’s director, Rabbi Menachem Lieberman, the organization is hoping to use the 1 million shekel grand prize to meet the needs of the city’s elderly and indigent population. The network, which operates under the larger umbrella of Colel Chabad charities, also provides food deliveries in advance of the Jewish holidays and daily hot lunches to homebound clients.

Up until Dec. 27, YouTube visitors can vote daily for the non-profit organization, which on Tuesday, was in 11th place.

More than 7,000 people in Ashkelon live under the poverty line, according to Lieberman. The addition of a soup kitchen “will expand the infrastructure of our daily distribution of hot meals for the needy, elderly and infirm.”