Israel has sent a shipment of medicine to Nepal in the wake of the recent flooding in the Himalayan country.
The shipment was sent Monday at the request of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
The 330-pound package, coordinated by the Israeli Foreign Ministry, included about 30 types of medicine that had been requested by Nepalese authorities.
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