Update From Haiti

February 01: Blood Libel Against Israel's Medical Teams in Haiti

As Israel's medical teams with more than forty doctors and hundreds of support personnel continue working around the clock to save lives in Haiti, an ancient evil slur has resurfaced. Internet postings accuse Israeli doctors of harvesting body parts from the people they are treating! This echoes the ancient blood libel that led to the murder of so many Jews in Europe, Asia and Africa.

And this awful smear comes as Israel is leading the world in helping the littlest victims of Haiti's devastating earthquake. They are the Haitian orphans, victims of the massive earthquake that devastated the already impoverished island nation. In an instant their parents were snatched away from them. Now they face a life of fear, loneliness, hunger and despair.

The scale of this tragedy is hard to comprehend. Just hearing the numbers; nearly two hundred thousand killed, hundreds of thousands more left homeless, as many as three million people in need of aid and assistance to survive, a devastated economy and infrastructure…it's almost too much to grasp. The need is incredible. And for many people, especially the youngest victims of this tragedy, hope is hard to find.

But Israel is trying to change that…and we can help!