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Jack Ma, Alibaba Foundation Donate Medical Supplies to Israel to Fight Coronavirus

Jack Ma, Alibaba Foundation Donate Medical Supplies to Israel to Fight Coronavirus

The supplies include Covid-19 test kits, face masks, face shields, and protective clothing

Adi Pick | 11:14, 30.03.20
Jack Ma, the founder and former chairman of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. through the Alibaba Foundation and Jack Ma Foundation has donated medical supplies to Israel to help fight the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, the foundations announced Sunday. The supplies include Covid-19 test kits, face masks, face shields, and protective clothing.

The two cargo flights loaded with the medical supplies departed from Shanghai and arrived in Tel Aviv Sunday.

Alibaba founder and chairman Jack Ma. Photo: Bloomberg Alibaba founder and chairman Jack Ma. Photo: Bloomberg Alibaba founder and chairman Jack Ma. Photo: Bloomberg
The foundations have also donated medical supplies and testing kits to 24 Latin American countries including Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, testing kits and masks to 54 countries throughout Africa, and 800 ventilators to different countries in Europe.

Ma has visited Israel twice, both times in 2018, during which he met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, local tech entrepreneurs, and received an honorary doctorate from Tel Aviv University.

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