“They came like angels from the sky,” said Porfirio Fraticeli, a water operator in El Real about IsraAID.

Immediately after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico in 2017, IsraAid sent a group to help save lives and rebuild villages. Now, they are celebrating their successes.

An Israeli emergency response team in Puerto Rico is getting some unlikely assistance from an 11-year-old Israeli girl who sews and sells textile bags to benefit the hurricane relief effort.

Israeli and Jewish organizations have dispatched teams to lend a helping hand to the storm-ravaged Caribbean island.