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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: Canadian toymaker Ronnen Harary is helping Israeli kids, soldiers and hospitals
Description: Ronnen Harary and his university friends founded the toy and entertainment company Spin Master in 1994, launching with Earth Buddies and later the wildly successful Air Hogs toys. Today, it’s their Paw Patrol characters and Gund stuffed animals that are globally famous. And for the last two weeks, since the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre in southern Israel, Harary has been on the ground in Israel distributing 25,000 toys for Israeli kids and their families who have been affected by the war with Hamas.
And that’s not all. His personal charity is buying new beds for the Hadassah hospital in J...