Live from Tel Aviv, two nice Jewish boys. There is no shortage of disaster in the world.

Epidemics, wars, earthquakes, tsunamis, the list goes on, claim countless lives every year.

For those who live, life often becomes a series of tragedy and tribulation,

as they are left without food, shelter, or even their own health. Worse yet, in these disaster-stricken

countries, the infrastructure often collapses only to exacerbate the situation. As the civil war in Syria rages on, almost half a million

people have lost their lives, and hundreds of thousands more are left homeless and helpless.

The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami claimed the lives of about a quarter of a million

people. The 2010 earthquake in Haiti, the Cyclone Nargis of 2008 in Myanmar, and these are just in our

recent history.

In 1556, the Shangxi earthquake in China killed over 800,000 people.

As we said, the world is not lacking in disaster.

But we are not here to talk about the destruction that our home, planet Earth, doles out every once in a while as if it's taking

some sadistic form of rent. We're here to talk about some good, about how in disaster people

come to the aid of other people, real heroes to the rescue. One such organization is Israel, a non-for-profit

that provides disaster relief around the globe, helping literally rescue people from the rubble or

ashes or flooded streets, providing them with immediate medical care, food, and shelter.

But it doesn't end there. Israel

sticks around long after the emergency state is over in an effort to help rehabilitate the

disaster-stricken country, to facilitate the renewal and building of infrastructure so that

after the organization leaves, the country can live on. We decided to prepare a two-part special with two people from the organization.

In part one, we spoke with Ophili, who worked in South Sudan for five years.

She told us about how Israel strives to help educate and train the local national service providers

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