Last October, Beverly Hills residents Barak Raviv and his wife, Indre, had just finished saying the Kiddush prayer for Sukkot when they began receiving alerts that Israel was under attack.
Even before the extent of Hamas’ assault became clear the following day, on Oct. 7, Barak and Indre knew they had to help, and they made “an instantaneous decision” to raise funds to buy an ambulance for Magen David Adom, Israel’s emergency medical services system, Barak said.
