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Source: http://www.cjnews.com/columnists/unseen-humanitarian-face-israel
The Humanitarian Face of Israel
(Canadian Jewish News) Mordechai Ben-Dat - Five years after Haiti was devastated by an earthquake, IsraAID: The Israel Forum for International Humanitarian Aid is still operating there, helping rebuild lives and communities. IsraAID director Shachar Zahavi told Israel21C, "You'll still find IsraAID workers in Japan, for example, nearly four years after a deadly earthquake and tsunami, and helping in Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, the Philippines, China, Hong Kong and South Korea." As the battle for the Syrian town of Kobani raged late last year, IsraAID assisted some 1,000 Christian and Yazidi families by sending 2,000 blankets, mattresses and food for 1,015 babies and young children.