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Search and Rescue personnel work at a partial collapse building in Surfside, Miami Beach, on June 24, 2021. (CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP) Jewish groups in the US and an Israeli rescue organization are mobilizing to aid victims of a condominium tower collapse near Miami, with several members of the Jewish community missing amid fading hopes of finding them alive. At least one person was killed and 99 more were still missing as the sun went down on the heavily Jewish suburb of Surfside Thursday, nearly a full day after much of the 12-story building suddenly collapsed at around 1:30 a.m. First responde...

About an hour's drive north-east of Adelaide, the pretty Barossa wine region takes in Eden Valley and towns such as Tanunda, Nuriootpa and Angaston.

On a Tuesday night in May, just five days after the Meron crowd-crush tragedy that killed 45, United Hatzalah held a mass-casualty incident (MCI) training drill in the northern city of Kiryat Shmona. The drill simulated a motor vehicle accident involving two minibuses that left patients of various ages with different injuries. Participating in the drill with United Hatzalah was the Israel Defense Forces; the Upper Galilee and Mt. Hermon search and rescue units; United Hatzalah’s psychotrauma team, run by Dr. Moshe Farchi of Tel-Hai College; the fire department; and the police department. Th...

Eli and Gitty in Tel Aviv in 2018. Eli Beer, the powerhouse behind United Hatzalah of Israel, who has grown an organization of more than 6,000 volunteers with a 90-second response time, who crisscrosses the globe (yes, even during the pandemic) fundraising and sharing his innovative emergency response model, who himself survived a life-threatening battled with Covid-19, and who is an icon of purposeful unity between Jews and Arabs, Jews and Christians, and Jews and each other, has an addiction. “Once you save one life,” he has said, “you want to save more.” Millions of liv...

From the blog of Yonah Bookstein at The Times of Israel