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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: This Canadian social worker is helping bereaved Israelis ID the remains of Hamas attack victims
Description: Canadian social worker Joy Frenkiel can’t get two particular sounds out of her head: IDF soldiers hammering wood to build coffins, and the motors of refrigerated containers storing hundreds of still-unidentified bodies at an Israeli military base. Frenkiel moved to Israel from Chomedey, north of Montreal, in 1996; since the horrific murders of at least 1,300 Israelis and foreign nationals earlier this month by Hamas, the Ramat Gan resident has been helping bereaved families go through what is likely the hardest experience of their lives.
Frenkiel not only travels with military teams on solemn home visits to break the news to...