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Jose Andres

José Andrés, founder of World Central Kitchen, during a visit to the organization’s central kitchen in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, August 15, 2025. (World Central Kitchen)
August 20, 2025, 10:03 pm
After seeing misery up close, the man feeding Gaza says there’s no doubt Strip is starving
Meeting ex-hostages and visiting Deir al-Balah, WCK founder José Andrés has sympathy for both sides, maintaining good ties with COGAT as he aims for 1 million meals a day
By Nurit Yohanan
Former US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton at the Clinton Global Initiative, on Sept. 24, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)
January 4, 2025, 2:58 pm
Hillary Clinton, Soros, WCK’s Andres to be awarded US Presidential Medal of Freedom
Biden also to confer highest civilian honor on Denzel Washington, Lionel Messi, Michael J. Fox, Ralph Lauren, Earvin ‘Magic’ Johnson, David Rubenstein, Bono
By AP and ToI Staff
World Central Kitchen (WCK) founder Jose Andres (L) attends an interfaith memorial service for the seven WCK workers killed in Gaza, at the Washington National Cathedral, in Washington, DC, on April 25, 2024. (SAUL LOEB / AFP)
April 25, 2024, 10:54 pm
Interfaith memorial held for WCK workers killed in Israeli strike in Gaza
Aid group’s founder Jose Andres pays tribute to seven volunteers at Washington ceremony attended by VP’s husband Douglas Emhoff, other senior officials and diplomats
By AFP and ToI Staff
World Central Kitchen head Jose Andres speaks to ABC's This Week, April 7, 2024. (X video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
April 7, 2024, 8:21 pm
Head of aid group struck by IDF calls Gaza campaign ‘a war against humanity itself’
Chef Jose Andres compares Netanyahu to Putin, says war no longer about defending Israel; demands deeper, independent inquiry into deadly strike on World Central Kitchen convoy
By AFP and ToI Staff
This combination photo shows US President Joe Biden, left, on March 8, 2024, in Wallingford, Pennsylvania, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, October 28, 2023. (AP Photo)
April 4, 2024, 7:27 pm
Biden warns Netanyahu US policy on Gaza war will shift unless major changes made
President tells PM he wants concrete steps announced and implemented to address humanitarian crisis, protect aid workers, says immediate ceasefire is essential to those ends
By Jacob Magid
File: José Andrés, founder of World Central Kitchen, speaks onstage during a summit on September 19, 2023 in New York City. (Bryan Bedder / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)
April 3, 2024, 1:00 pm
Head of aid group struck by IDF: ‘Israel is better than the way this war is being waged’
In op-ed for Israeli paper, José Andrés urges ‘best of Israel to show up’; earlier, called for end to ‘indiscriminate killings,’ marking shift after defense of Israel post-October 7
By ToI Staff and AP
People inspect the site where World Central Kitchen workers were killed in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, April 2, 2024. (Abdel Kareem Hana/AP)
April 3, 2024, 7:18 am
IDF chief apologizes as details emerge of strike that picked off Gaza aid cars one by one
Halevi: Deaths of 7 WCK staffers ‘a mistake that followed a misidentification, at night, in very complex war conditions’; report claims ‘each commander makes his own rules’ in Gaza
By Jacob Magid
The victims of an April 1, 2024, IDF strike on a World Central Kitchen convoy in Gaza (Clockwise from top right): Saifeddin Issam Ayad Abutaha, Lalzawmi (Zomi) Frankcom, Damian Soból, Jacob Flickinger, James Kirby, James (Jim) Henderson and John Chapman. (World Central Kitchen/X)
April 3, 2024, 3:15 am
World Central Kitchen names ‘seven heroes’ killed in IDF strike on Gaza aid convoy
British, Polish, Australian, Palestinian, American-Canadian volunteers for World Central Kitchen remembered by loved ones for their dedication to the cause
By AP and ToI Staff
File: World Central Kitchen founder Jose Andres speaks onstage at The New York Times Climate Forward Summit 2023 at The Times Center on September 21, 2023 in New York City. (Bennett Raglin / Getty Images via AFP)
April 2, 2024, 11:32 pm
Jose Andres, the celebrity chef who sidestepped bureaucracy to bring aid to Gaza
US-Spanish charity crusader bought his World Central Kitchen to Palestinian enclave at invitation of Cypriot government, eventually feeding 350,000 people a day
By Agencies and ToI Staff
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