(Jewish Insider) Jacob Miller - Israeli medic Dvir Dimri, 37, has spent several days and nights shuttling between the pile of rubble at Champlain Towers South and a nearby private home trying to console grieving Jewish families. Dimri is part of a team of 10 volunteers from the Israeli medical-relief agency SSF-Rescuers Without Borders. "Our brothers and sisters are here. We're here to help," he says. SSF members have previously volunteered in the aftermath of the 2010 Haiti earthquake and the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Dimri says Jewish tradition compels the sacrifices Israeli volunteers are undergoing to help in the search-and-rescue mission. "If you understand that you are following a value that life is above everything, and that the respect of bodies is above everything, so this is why you stop everything, you put all your money, all your business on the side, and you come to work, and you come to do your best."
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