“Israel’s allies and friends know that it will stand by them in times of trouble,” says Foreign Minister Yair Lapid as ventilators, oxygen tanks and advanced protective gear are dispatched to Kathmandu.
As he continues to follow closely the developments in Nepal and the progress of Israel's aid mission there, President Reuven Rivlin has hosted the children of the Lubavitch Chabad emissaries based in Nepal.
The Joint Israelife Disaster Response team, comprising volunteers from ZAKA, United Hatzolah and F.I.R.S.T, attended to about thirty injured Nepalese yesterday in the small, far-flung villages east of Kathmandu.
After a devastating earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale hit the impoverished mountainous country of Nepal over the weekend, killing at least 3,800 people, Israeli and Jewish humanitarian and governmental organisations have assumed their traditional role on the frontline of relief efforts for a natural disaster.
