Radio RADISIN, a private Farsi-language radio station based in Tel Aviv, airs Iranian music, poetry and current affairs shows aiming to spread peace between the Israeli and Iranian people – regardless of who is in power in Tehran. http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/feb/07/israeli-radio-in-farsi-transmits-peace-to-iran/

US Ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro visited Kibbutz Sasa in northern Galilee, home to Israel’s Plasan factory. Plasan’s advanced technologies are used in the majority of the US military’s armoured vehicles and have saved countless American soldiers’ lives in Iraq … Continue reading →

Tel Aviv Municipality has supplied 30,000 seedlings to community gardens, schools and other institutions On Tu Bishvat itself, the city will also distribute 18,000 saplings and 2,000 perennial plants to schools and kindergarten children. http://www.jpost.com/Sci-Tech/Article.aspx?id=256763

Israel’s Public Utility Authority has issued the first license for a solar power facility on Arab Beduin land, approving the Tarabin family’s application to build an 8-megawatt photovoltaic field on their property in the Abu Basma region in the northwestern … Continue reading →

A lone soldier is someone who has come to Israel on his or her own, deliberately to join the Israel Defense Forces. There are about 5000 Jewish lone soldiers in the IDF. Last week, Fadi Abad Alhallik from Brazil became … Continue reading →

Despite continuing indiscriminate rocket attacks from Gaza, the Israeli government is bending over backwards to help ordinary Gazan farmers. Israeli authorities allowed tomatoes to be exported from the Gaza Strip to Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Israeli laboratories even ensured that … Continue reading →

(Thanks to Stuart Palmer) When Aya Almasal, 12, left her Gaza home approximately one month ago and headed for Rambam hospital in Haifa, she didn’t know that this trip would save her life. For several years Aya had suffered from … Continue reading →