Israelis Offer Haiti Functioning Hospital in Time of Crisis
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To set up on-the-ground interviews in Haiti, contact Amb. Amos Radian at 881-631-575508; IDF spokesmen Capt. Matan Greenstein or Daniel Saada at 881-651-418199; or IsraAID founder and coordinator Shachar Zahavi at szahavi@hotmail.com or 972-54-567-9979

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Haitian mother who named her son "Israel" after Israeli medics delivered the baby boy Courtesy IDF Spokesperson's Office

As Haiti’s humanitarian disaster pushed into its sixth day, Israelis rescued a 6-year-old girl from the rubble and Jewish groups continued their efforts to provide relief to the people of Haiti.[1]

Medics from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Sunday (Jan. 27) delivered a Haitian boy, whom the mother named Israel, inside an Israeli field hospital.[2] The same day, Israeli doctors delivered a premature girl at the same hospital after ABC News Senior Health and Medical Editor Dr. James Besser rushed the baby’s mother to the facility.[3] The Israeli Consulate in New York assisted Besser in finding the hospital.[4]

According to CNN, Israel’s field hospital is the only full-service medical facility on the island equipped to handle complex surgeries. Supplies for a U.S. field hospital are scheduled to arrive tonight (Jan. 18).[5]

On Jan. 15 – two days after the massive earthquake rocket the island nation – the IDF’s emergency aid team arrived in Haiti, consisting of a medical mission and search-and-rescue crews.[6] The medical team established the field hospital adjacent to Port-au-Prince’s soccer stadium, which can treat as many as 500 patients per day.[7] The field hospital is equipped with:

• Operating rooms
• An intensive care ward
• A maternity ward
• A pediatrics ward
• Incubator units
• A pharmacy
• X-ray equipment
• 10 tons of medical equipment
• 90 beds, 66 intensive care beds and two delivery beds
• Approximately 250 personnel, including 40 doctors and specialists, 20 nurses and several paramedics.[8]

Israeli rescue workers pulling man out of government building Courtesy IDF Spokesperson's Office

American Jewish Committee (AJC) in partnership with IsrAID
To donate to AJC’s Haiti Earthquake Relief Fund, click here
Contact: haitifund@ajc.org
Web site: http://www.ajc.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=ijITI2PHKoG&b=2818295&content_id={D90DEA69-E8D3-4593-A307-9E838F7F8EDB}¬oc=1  

American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)
To donate to the JDC’s Haiti Earthquake Relief program, click here
Contact: Beth Weinstein, Tel.: 212-885-0820, E-mail: beth.weinstein@jdcny.org
Web site: http://www.jdc.org/about-jdc/crisis-response.aspx?id=4028  

American Jewish World Service (AJWS)
To donate to AJWS’s Haiti Earthquake Relief Fund, click here
Web site: http://ajws.org/who_we_are/news/haiti_emergency.html  

B’nai B’rith Canada
To donate to B’nai B’rith Canada’s Haiti Earthquake Relief Fund, click here
Web site: http://www.bnaibrith.ca/  

B’nai B’rith International
To donate to B'nai B'rith’s Disaster Relief Fund to Aid the Victims of the Haiti Earthquake, click here
Web site: http://www.bnaibrith.org/latest_news/Haiti11310.cfm  

Canadian Jewish Congress
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Web site: http://www.cjc.ca/2010/01/15/7160/  

Chabad Lubavitch
To donate to Chabad’s Haiti Relief Efforts, click here
Web site: http://www.chabadominican.com/templates/articlecco_cdo/aid/1092880/jewish/Chabad-Haiti-Relief-Efforts.htm

Magen David Adom
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Web site: http://www.afmda.org/content/newsroom/mda%20news.aspx#story2  

MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger
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Web site: http://mazon.org/2010/01/13/mazon-launches-emergency-haiti-fund/  

ORT
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Web site: http://www.ort.org/asp/article.asp?ID=898  

Orthodox Union (OU)
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United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism (USCJ)
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Union for Reform Judaism (URJ)
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Web site: http://urj.org/socialaction/issues/relief/haiti/  

World Jewish Relief (WJR)
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Web site: http://www.wjr.org.uk/appeals/646-Haiti-Emergency-Earthquake-appeal