On August 29, 2005 I had again this feeling of impotence. Like the first time I saw my mom crying, and realize that even the woman I thought to be the strongest in the world, can break down every once  while. This time it was Katrina, the hurricane. 
After the tsunami, the floods in Europe, the huge fires in Portugal and the live 8 that desperately tried to save some of the starved African continent, I thought this year had utilized destruction to the fullest. That god had enough. But this time – our mother was hurt. The strong USA stood helpless again and this time facing not human evil forces, but the rage of nature. 
Usually, at times like that, I immediately pick up the phone to call Gal Lusky. A few words about Gal – so you, the readers, can understand her activities and me, the writer, won’t mess with her. (because she really doesn’t like to be told about)...

IFA team members representing the pulsating heart of Israel and believe in sanctity of human life and dignity as reflected in the Jewish Halacha and in the Israeli Declaration on Independence.

“Devote yourself to justice, aid the wronged uphold the rights of the orphan, defend the cause of the widow”

Isaiah, chapter 1. 16-17

“The state of Israel will be based on freedom, justice, and peace as envisaged by the prophets of Israel; it will insure complete equality of social and political rights to all its habitants irrespective of religion, conscience, language, education and culture”

Israeli Declaration of Independence