"German Chancellor Angela Merkel Awards IsraAID With Integration Prize" blares the headline on IsraAID's webside. "The Israeli organization has been recognized for its work with Syrian, Iraqi and Afghan refugees. The annual prize, being awarded for only the second time, is the German federal government’s highest honor for integration. IsraAID will receive the prize for its Brückenbau (“Bridge Building”) project....The Brückenbau program is run in partnership with ZWST, the Welfare Board of Jews in Germany. Since the height of the Syrian refugee crisis in 2015, IsraAID has provided medical, psychosocial and educational support to over 100,000 refugees in Greece and Germany alone."
My God Jews are suckers for a sob story. In an emotional response Yotam Polizer and Navonel Glick, IsraAID Co-CEOs, said: "Only through working together with communities experiencing crisis can we build a better future, both for refugees and their hosts. We stand committed to this cause, and IsraAID will continue to support the needs of refugees and their hosts in the countries we work in for as long as we are needed. Through our work with IsraAID, we have seen the power and potential of the refugees we work with as they write a new story for themselves and their communities. It is a story of learning new languages, of adjusting to new surroundings. It is 500 people, Arabic-, Kurdish-, Farsi- and French-speaking Muslims and Christians, celebrating Eid-al-Fitr in a Greek school run by an Israeli humanitarian aid organization."
Adding (not really) 'and we've been so impressed with the quality of the refugees and the blessing they're proving to Europe that we are now, regretfully, redirecting our efforts to ensure that Israel gets its fair share of these wonderful human beings. After all, charity can go only so far. As the Lone Ranger used to say to Tonto, our work here is done.'