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Residents and rescue workers search through the rubble of a building that collapsed in an earthquake in Caracas, Venezuela, June 25, 2026. (AP/Ariana Cubillos)
June 25, 2026, 5:35 pm
Israel making ‘immediate preparations’ to send aid team to quake-stricken Venezuela
No Israelis known to be harmed in devastating natural disaster that has killed more than 150; Israeli nonprofit NATAN sends team as ZAKA, IsraAid prepare to mobilize
By Nava Freiberg, Sue Surkes and Agencies
A Fogbow aid plane is loaded at an airport in Juba, South Sudan, on June 9, 2025, before conducting airdrops of food in the Upper Nile region. (AP Photo/ Florence Miettaux)
August 18, 2025, 7:48 pm
Israel to send humanitarian aid to South Sudan as it battles deadly cholera outbreak
Jerusalem plans to provide Juba with medical equipment, water purification supplies and food, amid reports that it’s in talks to relocate Gazans to the troubled East African nation
By Nava Freiberg and Agencies
Loading of IsraAID humanitarian aid trucks on their way to Gaza, Ashdod Port, January 2025. (IsraAID)
August 13, 2025, 1:04 am
As humanitarian crisis deepens, Israeli aid groups gingerly open up about work in Gaza
With disaster at its doorstep, IsraAID and SmartAID are providing water, healthcare and more to the Strip, acting as a bridge for both UN-backed NGOs and US Jews unable to stand by
By Nurit Yohanan
Displaced Palestinians carry food parcels and supplies from a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution point along the Netzarim corridor in the central Gaza Strip, August 8, 2025. (Ali Hassan/Flash90)
August 11, 2025, 7:37 pm
American Jewish federation pledges $1M for Gaza aid through Israeli rescue nonprofit
UJA-Federation of New York cites ‘Jewish imperative to act,’ as it announces donation to IsraAID, a relief group for disaster zones abroad that now also works in Israel and Gaza
By JTA
A woman chats with an Israel-based organization (IsraAID) chatbot in Juba displacement camp, South Sudan, February 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
March 16, 2025, 8:49 am
Israeli aid group uses chatbot to help survivors of sexual assault in South Sudan
Assisting survivors in impoverished country with low literacy is major challenge; IsraAid says technology can help maintain data in place of paper files that can go missing
By SAM MEDNICK
Organizers and farmers co-design a solar field in western Uganda as part of a Gigawatt Global project, Kyenjojo District, Uganda, April 13, 2024. (Jeje Canutum)
March 11, 2025, 3:46 pm
Jewish and Israeli aid groups are hit by Trump’s suspension of USAID, refugee program
After the US president orders America’s largest aid body gutted, repercussions are felt around the world as programs benefiting people from Africa to Gaza have their funding frozen
By Sue Surkes
IsraAID team member organizes relief supplies for Hurricane Harvey victims in shelters in Dallas, Texas, August 29, 2017. (IsraAID)
November 15, 2023, 1:04 am
Created to aid in crises abroad, Israeli NGOs are applying their expertise at home
IsraAID, OLAM and other organizations used to carrying out disaster relief missions throughout the world now find themselves responding to the aftermath of the Oct. 7 onslaught
By Deborah Danan
IsraAid CEO Yotam Polizer aids a Syrian refugee in Lesbos, Greece, in 2015 (courtesy of IsraAid)
January 25, 2023, 7:42 pm
Activist who took Israeli disaster aid global wins humanitarian prize
Yotam Polizer heads IsraAid, NGO with 320 staff that provides help at disasters worldwide, will receive prestigious Charles Bronfman Prize
By Nathan Jeffay
Rescue workers carry the body of a man who was killed in a Russian missile strike on an apartment building in the southeastern city of Dnipro, Ukraine, Janyary 16, 2023. (Evgeniy Maloletka/AP)
January 17, 2023, 10:23 am
Israeli aid group assisting in Dnipro after devastating Russian missile strike
Psychologists trained by IsraAID helping Ukrainians affected by attack, as death toll rises to 40; group also providing food, blankets and more
By ToI Staff and AFP
Illustrative -- Doctors and nurses take a child brought to Israel by Save a Child's Heart to recovery after the infant underwent open-heart surgery at Wolfson Medical Center in Holon, Israel, on August 13, 2018 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
November 28, 2022, 4:56 am
In first, 4 children from South Sudan to get life-saving heart surgery in Israel
Children with congenital heart disease will receive treatment at Holon’s Wolfson Medical Center as part of a joint initiative by Save a Child’s Heart and IsraAID
By Nathan Jeffay and ToI Staff
Afghan men sit in a bus in Herat, Afghanistan, on November 22, 2021, for a 300-mile trip south to Nimrooz near the Iranian border. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
January 28, 2022, 3:36 am
Haunted by Holocaust, Israeli charity assists Afghans fleeing Taliban rule
Lawyer Inbar Nacht says dramatic events at Kabul airport touched her ‘most fundamental Jewish feelings’; IsraAid, 2nd Israeli group, helped 200 at-risk refugees reach safe shores
By Jonah Mandel
Afghan refugees meet Alexander Machkevitch, honorary president of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress (EAJC), and EAJC Chairman Aaron G. Frenkel. (IsraAID)
January 18, 2022, 12:48 pm
Afghan refugees saved by Israelis finally meet their rescuers
87 Afghanis, part of larger group rescued in October in an effort led by IsraAID, reside in Albania as they await resettlement in Canada
By ToI Staff
Tova Moradi, 83, an Afghan Jewish woman who fled Kabul this month with her relatives with the assistance of an Israeli aid group, speaks to the Associated Press at a resort which is accommodated Afghan refugees in Golem, 45 kilometers west of the capital Tirana in Albania on Oct. 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Franc Zhurda)
October 29, 2021, 6:31 pm
The last, last Jew? Simentov relative flees Afghanistan after Taliban takeover
Fearing for her safety, Tova Moradi, 83, escapes to Albania with family after getting help from IsraAid, office of President Herzog and two Israeli billionaires
By Ilan Ben Zion and LLAZAR SEMINI
Asylum seekers from Afghanistan reach Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates on Sept. 6, 2021. (IsraAID)
September 21, 2021, 1:38 am
Israeli philanthropists, IsraAID help dozens flee Afghanistan for UAE
Effort led by Aaron G. Frenkel, aviation professional who helped airlift thousands of Jews out of the Soviet Union
By Cnaan Liphshiz
People recover the body of a deceased person from the rubble of a house destroyed by the earthquake in Les Cayes, Haiti, Sunday, Aug. 15, 2021. (AP/Joseph Odelyn)
August 16, 2021, 3:25 am
Haiti quake toll soars to 1,297 as storm threatens rescue effort
Foreign aid pours in to help impoverished nation, with hospitals overwhelmed by thousands injured in Saturday temblor; tropical depression expected to bring heavy rains Monday
By EVENS SANON and Collin Binkley
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