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Brotherhood Operation,” which sent a plane- load of IsraAID supplies and financial assistance. Non-Governmental Organizations Involved in Humanitarian Assistance IsraAid, the coordinating body of Israeli non-profits organizations involved in relief work, sent a delegation of • IsraAID is a coordinating body of Israeli and Jewish medical personnel, psychologists and experienced search- NGOs (non governmental organizations) and other and-rescue divers. interested parties based in Israel that are active in development and relief work and concerned about global Five universities in Israel welcomed displaced American issues (“Tikkun Olam”). students from the affected areas and invited both undergraduate and graduate students to continue their • IsraAID was founded at the end of 2001 and consists of studies in Israel. more than 35 Israeli and Jewish organizations from many sectors including: humanitarian aid organizations, student “[The Israelis] performed courageously in south Louisiana and youth movements, industry, solidarity movements, when we needed them most. I’m personally very grateful religious organizations, friendship societies and more. for their efforts and I know that those they touched will Members include: Joint Distribution Committee Israel always remember the generosity of the Israeli people”— (JDC), ‘Pirchey Refua’ (Youth Medical Cadets), The U.S. Representative Charles Melancon (D-LA) Humanitarian Fund of the Movement, The Student Council of Israel, Aid Without Borders, Israeli ll. The Nairobi Embassy Bombing Friends of Tibet, B’nai B’rith World Center, Save a Child’s When terrorists bombed the U.S. embassies in Kenya Heart, American Jewish Committee (AJC), United Jewish and Tanzania in August 1998, Israel immediately Communities (UJC) and more. dispatched search and rescue teams to assist in saving the victims trapped under the rubble. The IDF’s Home Front • IsraAID’s members believe in providing humanitarian Command Rescue Unit was the first delegation to arrive aid worldwide to people in need, regardless of religion, from abroad, and was accompanied by military and civilian race, gender, nationality, age and disabilities. ◆ doctors, rescue dogs and high-tech rescue equipment. The above: An example of American Friends of Israeli team led the rescue operation in Nairobi, Kenya Magen David Adom’s and was able to pull three survivors from the building, (AFMDA) aid during the perform life-saving operations and provide medical care Hurricane Katrina relief. Relief and Rescue to the victims of the bombing. ◆ below: IDF rescue team From Israel and the United States: Friends Partners, Allies, looks through wreckage Embassy of Israel, 2007 “The Secretary [Madeline Albright] near the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi for survivors. noted that the Israeli team had I. Hurricane Katrina Relief played an phenomenal role in In the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in leading the search and rescue effort. August 2005, Israel was one of a number of nations to The experience and expertise of a ligh offer assistance to the relief efforts. An Israeli airlift the Israeli teams literally made the ISRAEL IMAGES arrived in Little Rock, Arkansas with an eighty-ton difference between life and death shipment of humanitarian aid, including baby food, for at least one victim of the blast.” t un diapers, water, ready-to-eat meals, clothes, tents, t

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WEB 26th Annual Educating for RESOURCEs: Tolerance Mayors Conference of Lessons From the Holocaust to Combat Conference: Racism and Hatred Today mayors.jerusalem.muni.il Mayors Yad Vashem: September 14th-18th, 2008 Echoes and Reflections is a comprehensive ten-part www.yadvashem.org curriculum on the Holocaust that uses visual history testimony from survivors and other witnesses and Anti-Defamation The Jerusalem Conference of Mayors is a unique additional primary source documents, including maps, League: www.adl.org international gathering of city leaders, hosted by the Mayor photographs, timelines, literature excerpts and other of Jerusalem, Mayor Uri Lupolianski. Entrusted with a materials. The curriculum was produced primarily Simon Wiesenthal city of deep historical, religious and cultural significance, for use in high schools in partnership with the Anti- Center: he invites colleagues to join him in exploring the role of the Defamation League (ADL), the USC Shoah Foundation www.wiesenthal.com mayor in improving the quality of life of the residents, with Institute for Visual History and Education, and Yad particular emphasis on the environmental challenges in Vashem. Since its launch in July 2005, the curriculum USC Shoah Foundation creating a “green future” for the 21st century capital city. has reached an estimated 600,000 students in schools Institute for across the country, and more than 4,000 educators Visual History and The 26th Conference of Mayors, devoted to the theme: nationwide have participated in intensive training Education: ‘’The role of the Mayor in improving the quality of life’’, is sessions on the use of the curriculum facilitated by the college.usc.edu/vhi made possible by the sponsorship of the American Jewish three partner organizations. ◆ Congress - Council for World Jewry, whose commitment to strengthening ties between Israel and other nations led to their initiating this annual gathering in 1980. It is held with the cooperation and support of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, together with the U.S. Conference of Mayors and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.

“In sponsoring this annual gathering of mayors from around the world we hope to give them a fresh outlook of Jerusalem, and a new understanding of Israel and its achievements,” said AJCongress and Council for World Jewry Chairman Jack Rosen. “Mayors Conference alumni are among Israel’s best ambassadors of good will.” ◆

right: Yad Vashem Chairman Avner Shalev (right) and Abraham Foxman (left), National Director, Anti- Defamation League, are joined by Holocaust survivor and Nobel Laureate, Elie Wiesel, in Jerusalem. Wiesel congratulated Shalev and Foxman on their award- winning multimedia curriculum, Echoes and Reflections. Wiesel is featured in Lesson 5 of this interdisciplinary curriculum about the Holocaust designed for U.S. high schools. The three are holding the NAME (National Association of Multicultural Education)

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