Assistant Commissioner of Specialist Operations at the London Police, Cressida Dick, spoke at the IDC, Herzilya, Israel about London Police’s determination to fight terrorism with the same virtues as Israel – endurance, determination and courage. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/171741#.Ui7i43-868A http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdlSaI4Tabs

(Thanks to Margaret) Inc.com has reviewed Marcella Rosen’s “Tiny Dynamo” about Israeli start-ups and says it’s “a must-read for anyone passionate about entrepreneurship and technology. Acre-for-acre, person-for-person, no place is innovating more than Israel.” http://www.inc.com/christina-desmarais/how-israeli-start-ups-are-quietly-changing-the-world.html

(Thanks to Stuart Palmer) For those on the receiving end of recent anti-Israel propaganda, here is a timely fact sheet on Israel’s amazing humanitarian work for Palestinian Arabs. http://haifadiarist.blogspot.co.il/2013/09/israeli-health-care-of-palestinians.html

Those who say Israel is depriving the PA of water need to read this. http://elderofziyon.blogspot.co.il/2013/08/thirsty-in-west-bank-must-be-all-those.html#.Ui2PiX-868B

Here is an update on the work of Israeli NGO IL4Syrians. http://www.jpost.com/National-News/Israeli-organization-delivers-hundreds-of-tons-of-food-medicine-to-Syrian-refugees-325579

Israel’s Ziv hospital treated its 89th and 90th victims of the Syrian civil war – two brothers aged 12 and 15 years old who had been wounded by a land mine. Plus more news. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/275971#.Ui1vcH-868A http://israel21c.org/news/syrian-teen-gets-new-life-from-israeli-hospital/

(Thanks to Israel21c) Dr. Mais Ali Saleh is the newest Israeli-Arab obstetrician-gynecologist at Carmel Medical Center in Haifa. She recently graduated No. 1 in her class at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, one of the country’s top medical schools. (More … Continue reading →

The Israeli Public Service Venture Fund, Tmura, has distributed NIS 5 million of funds that it received when it sold share options following Waze’s takeover by Google. Tmura split the proceeds among five charities specializing in helping Israeli youth. http://www.shalomlife.com/news/20411/three-months-later-waze-exit-to-benefit-thousands-of-israeli-youth/