Israeli doctor comes to Canada to discuss disaster relief
A disaster is any event that exceeds a local community’s ability to meet the demand for medical attention, and Israeli doctor Elhanan Bar-On is often one of the people who comes to help meet that demand.
Israeli team trains Toronto’s Sick Kids hospital on disaster preparedness
Sick Kids hospital in Toronto hosted a team from Rambam Hospital in Haifa on Nov. 8 and 9, to share knowledge about how to prepare for disasters.
IsraAID sets up field hospital in quake-torn Ecuador
The field hospital was set up in the coastal village of Canoa, where 98 per cent of the buildings were destroyed in the initial April 16 earthquake that hit Ecuador’s Pacific coast
Following earthquakes, IsraAID sends relief teams to Japan, Ecuador
In addition to distributing food, the IsraAID volunteers are offering medical and psychological assistance to the affected communities
Despite slow recovery, the world’s largest seder — in Nepal — will go on
Chabad Nepal is preparing to kick off a massive annual production in Nepal: a feast believed to be the world’s largest seder, which attracts some 1,500 Israeli and Jewish backpackers each year
Israel providing aid to Paraguay after worst flood in decades
Israel will donate food and assistance kits to help Paraguayans displaced by massive flooding in the region, the worst in half a century
6.7 magnitude earthquake rocks India’s Jewish community
No one in the community of 7,000 was harmed
