A London-based Jewish disaster relief charity will help fund a new hospital in earthquake-struck Bam, Iran. World Jewish Aid was asked by Harun Yeshayaie, chairman of the Central Jewish Committee in Tehran, to help build the new hospital in the city where more than 30,000 people were killed in a recent quake.
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