The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews pledged $1 million in relief aid for South Lebanon Army refugees and residents of northern Israel. Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein of Chicago, the nonprofit organization’s founder and president, announced the pledge after he visited the Israeli-Lebanese border and met with the mayors of Metulla and Kiryat Shmona.
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