 IsraAID's Founding Director Shahar Zahavi told Arutz Sheva that the Israeli team were warmly received by the Kurdish residents of the camp.By early 2015, IsraAid trucks provided 3,000 items to Dohuk in Iraqi Kurdistan, helping Christian and Yezidi refugees.Jewish immigration from Ottoman Empire to the Land of Israel (then Damascus Eyalet and Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem) began in the 16th century, with the first Jewish immigrants from Kurdistan settling in Safed.