Six Chicago-area synagogues teamed up this previous 12 months, elevating greater than $100,000 to buy an ambulance for Magen David Odom, the emergency medical service company in Israel and an American Pink Cross accomplice.
“We’re glad we are able to contribute one thing to the therapeutic as a substitute of the damage that goes on there,” stated Rabbi Ike Serotta of Makom Solel Lakeside. “We couldn’t have envisioned that it might be a lot in want. However it is a very darkish time.”
The ambulance was made in Indiana and shall be shipped 6,200 miles to Israel by the top of October. Will probably be a device for EMTs to assist civilians.
“We’d like extra ambulances, we’ve got autos that have been broken. We misplaced a number of group members,” stated Yoni Yagadovsky, director of worldwide relations for the MDA.
Yagadovsky was in Highland Park on Sunday, visiting from Israel. He detailed what his groups have endured the previous two weeks through the Israel-Hamas struggle.
“The quantity of tourniquets group members positioned have been manner past something we’ve ever achieved previously in at some point,” he stated.
A number of group members have been additionally killed within the Oct 7 terror assaults that prompted the struggle.
Yagadovsky stated the assist from communities the world over will assist therapeutic, which fits far past bodily wounds.
“The quantity of assist that has been acquired previously two weeks is manner past something we’ve got skilled previously,” he stated. “The assist that we obtain right here is solely superb. I imply, heartwarming.”
