Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, for helping to rescue Israelis from Nepal. Netanyahu spoke to Modi on Thursday and delivered his condolences for loss of life in India in the April 25 earthquake, Israel Radio reported. More than 6,000 people died in the disaster, the vast majority in Nepal,…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli NGO’s search-and-rescue team in Kathmandu led an international effort in locating and extracting a young Nepalese woman from the earthquake rubble. The IsraAid team on Thursday afternoon guided the rescue of Krishna Devi Khadka, who was stuck in a hotel for five days in an air pocket covered by a…
The father of the last missing Israeli in the Nepal earthquake arrived on the scene to help in the search as the Chabad rabbi of Nepal flew a helicopter to bring food and water to stranded hikers. Members of Or Asraf’s IDF combat unit also touched down Wednesday afternoon in Nepal to help in the…
Two foreign nationals were found dead after an avalanche hit a village in a popular trekking destination north of the Nepalese capital Kathmandu, the interior ministry said on Wednesday, but aid workers were able to locate hundreds of others reported missing. Up to 250 trekkers were feared missing after an avalanche on Tuesday hit a…
JERUSALEM — Ronen and Tom Ziv are expecting their second child any day now. It would be a stressful time for any soon-to-be parents, but things are far, far worse for the gay Israeli couple. The woman carrying their baby is stuck in Kathmandu, having survived Nepal’s worst earthquake in decades. “Naturally, the news from…
As people worldwide mourn the devastation in Nepal, one rabbi posted a different reaction to Facebook: All he idols worshiping places n nepal are now destroyed Posted by Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi on Monday, April 27, 2015 The post appears to express the rabbi’s pleasure, if not glee, at the collapse of numerous temples throughout Nepal….
(Reuters) — Israel began evacuating infants born to surrogate mothers and their Israeli parents from Nepal on Monday, on the return legs of flights sent to provide earthquake relief. Many Israeli male couples have fathered children with the help of surrogate mothers in Nepal because in Israel the procedure is limited by law to heterosexual…
Over the past eight years, Tevel b’Tzedek has been working in Nepal, a very beautiful, very poor country snuggled—or thrust—between India and Tibet. Founded to create a Jewish platform to connect Israelis and Jews to the challenges of extreme poverty in the global south, Tevel now works in Burundi, Africa as well—but Nepal is our…
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