New Yorkers contributed more than $80,000 to provide Israeli medical response teams and teachers in the West Bank with bulletproof vests and helmets. Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-N.Y.), who launched the fund-raising campaign, said “New Yorkers who came forward to participate did it with big hearts, not big bank accounts.”
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