A new effort has been launched to seek the inclusion of Israel’s medical relief agency in the International Red Cross. Jewish legislators representing 25 nations in the Western Hemisphere, Europe, Africa and Australia vowed to press their nations’ Red Cross agencies to lobby for the admission of Israel’s Magen David Adom.
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