(Wall Street Journal) Erin Ailworth - On a flight from Newark to Israel, emergency-room physician Dr. Dov Frankel, 50, was on his way to volunteer at Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon. Dr. Anne Montal, 36, a surgical resident at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, was also headed for Barzilai. "I don't feel as helpless now that I'm going to do something," she said. Some of the people are backfilling jobs left vacant by Israelis who have joined the war effort. Glenn Grossman, 69, who recently returned home to Florida after working on a farm in the Negev Desert picking olives and grapes, said, "You feel that you're filling a void."
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