The goodwill Israel earned when it sent a team of nearly 700 emergency medical responders to Turkey following the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that devastated Hatay province on February 6 evaporated after the revelation that the search and rescue team secretly exported two 200-year-old Scrolls of Esther from Antakya at the end of its six-day mission there.
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Rabbi Mendy Chitrik says many members of Jewish community in the southern city of Antakya are unaccounted for; 'We hope and pray they come out of the rubble, but as time passes it becomes more difficult,' he says
The city is under total destruction – there’s no electricity, fuel, heating. Many buildings have collapsed, and a synagogue was also damaged - Click the link for more details.