Episode 45 - IsraAID: Providing Disaster Relief Around the Globe Part I‏I

Two Nice Jewish Boys

Eytan and Naor

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 5 July 2017

⏱️ 45 minutes

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“You have this city, it’s called Tacloban, it had about 250 thousand people. And a small wave hit it. Small, i say because the Japan tsunami [...] was about 130 feet high but here we’re talking about a small wave, about 15 feet, came in and the first thing it did is kill about 5,000 people in the city and leave their bodies throughout. But people don’t think about the aftermath. The aftermath is where you get a multiplying effect [...] the ripples. [...] Then to make it better, the cherry on the cake is that you have three maximum security prisons there. When the water starts to rise the guards have to make a decision: open the gates or let them drown." *** Last week we uploaded an episode with the inspiring and diligent Ophelie Namiech in which she told us about her work with IsraAID and the 5 years she spent in the freshly independent country of South Sudan from 2011 to 2016. This week we’re talking to Voni Glick, Co-CEO of IsraAID, to hear more about the organization as a whole, about its history and about his involvement. Voni was born in Israel but quickly became a classical nomadic Jew, moving to France with his family when he was only two, winding up in Canada and finally returning to the Jewish State in 2011.

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0:00.0	Live from Tel Aviv, two nice Jewish boys. There is no shortage of disaster in the world.
0:11.5	Epidemics, wars, earthquakes, tsunamis, the list goes on, claim countless lives every year.
0:18.6	For those who live, life often becomes a series of tragedy and tribulation,
0:23.5	as they are left without food, shelter, or even their own health. Worse yet, in these disaster-stricken
0:30.8	countries, the infrastructure often collapses only to exacerbate the situation. As the civil war in Syria rages on, almost half a million
0:40.4	people have lost their lives, and hundreds of thousands more are left homeless and helpless.
0:46.1	The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami claimed the lives of about a quarter of a million
0:51.4	people. The 2010 earthquake in Haiti, the Cyclone Nargis of 2008 in Myanmar, and these are just in our
1:00.7	recent history.
1:01.8	In 1556, the Shangxi earthquake in China killed over 800,000 people.
1:08.2	As we said, the world is not lacking in disaster.
1:12.9	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
1:17.8	some sadistic form of rent. We're here to talk about some good, about how in disaster people
1:23.0	come to the aid of other people, real heroes to the rescue. One such organization is Israel, a non-for-profit
1:30.9	that provides disaster relief around the globe, helping literally rescue people from the rubble or
1:37.5	ashes or flooded streets, providing them with immediate medical care, food, and shelter.
1:43.5	But it doesn't end there. Israel
1:45.6	sticks around long after the emergency state is over in an effort to help rehabilitate the
1:51.3	disaster-stricken country, to facilitate the renewal and building of infrastructure so that
1:57.4	after the organization leaves, the country can live on.
2:04.9	We decided to prepare a two-part special with two people from the organization.
2:09.2	From an organizational standpoint, Israel, being from Israel,
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