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Israeli Aid Being Readied Following Haiti Catastrophe
(Jerusalem Post) Haviv Rettig Gur - Israel and diaspora Jewish groups are rushing to get aid workers, supplies and money to the disaster zone in Haiti following Tuesday's catastrophic earthquake. An advance five-member IDF-Foreign Ministry team left for Haiti on Wednesday, including experts in engineering, medicine, logistics and rescue operations from the IDF's Home Front Command. A team of four ZAKA volunteers, who had arrived in Mexico on Monday to recover body parts of victims of a helicopter crash that killed Jewish businessman and philanthropist Moises Saba Masri and three of his family members, were making their way to Haiti as well. Meanwhile, an Israeli coalition of humanitarian groups, IsraAID, is sending a 12-man search-and-rescue team, which includes emergency medical staff.