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Israeli Bedouin Diplomat and Chabad Rabbi Unite to Save Lives in Nepal


(Ynet News) Itamar Eichner - Israeli Vered Aviyashar, 26, was killed a year and a half ago when her jeep overturned on the Annapurna ridge of Nepal. After the accident, a medical project was launched in her memory by Chabad emissary to Nepal Rabbi Hezki Lifshitz and Israeli Bedouin diplomat Ismail Khalidi. The project includes the distribution of small oxygen tanks to help Israeli backpackers trekking in the Himalayas suffering from altitude sickness. Only when Israeli trekkers "are at high altitudes do they discover that they have an oxygen problem," Khalidi explains.
2019-03-29 00:00:00
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