An event by IsraAID, an Israeli-based humanitarian AID agency, on climate change and what’s next for California drew a standing room only crowd on Tuesday night, Dec. 11, at a private residence in Holmby Hills.

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Seth Davis, IsraAID CEO, shared the organization’s current work in Paradise and Chico as well as other disaster areas, and Councilman Paul Koretz, 5th District, said “IsraAID is more critical than ever, in California, U.S. and around the world.”

Tel Aviv University atmospheric physicist Colin Price also spoke, giving a preview of the disaster-response training series that IsraAID will launch in January in L.A. and the Bay Area, called the IsraAID Humanitarian Professionals Network, or IHPN, to equip professionals with the skills and knowledge to deploy on relief missions or respond to local disasters.