In his recent Jewish Journal piece “Step-Up Nation” (punning on the great new book Start-Up Nation), Davis Suissa explains how it never occurred to Yonatan Yagodovsky, the director of the international desk at Magen David Adom (MDA) in Israel, that the IDF Haiti operation was good PR for Israel. “Maybe we’re stupid and naïve,” he told Suissa. “We just want to help.”
But the truth is, as most of us know, it was good PR for Israel. To that end, the Israeli consulate here in Los Angeles sent The Wire’s own Yael Bar-Tur to Haiti where she spent two weeks with her IDF unit on the ground blogging about her experiences.
Needless to say, she saw a pantload more than the average CNN viewer. Be sure to catch all her blog posts here and find out first-hand what the IDF was up to on the ground in Haiti. And thanks Yael for letting us repost these! The Jewish Federation might have raised more than $350,000 for Haiti relief, which, of course, is paramount to the country’s recovery, but you did something few of us could imagine doing: you got your hands dirty and we’re very proud of you.
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Way to go Yael! Fantastic stuff in there. You the shizzle in my nizzle.