Monthly Archives: January 2020

Smart help for Australian fire victims

Israeli charity iAID has been combatting global humanitarian crises such as in Mexico, Texas, Peru, Mozambique, Indonesia and Iraq since 2017 (see here). Now renamed SmartAID, its volunteers are on Kangaroo Island in Australia, using innovation and technology to rebuild … Continue reading

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After school programs for minorities

Israel’s Innovation Authority and Ministry of Education have selected Israeli non-profit Unistream (see here) to run its 5-year Young Entrepreneurs after-school programs for Druze, Bedouin, and Haredi students. It aims to give entrepreneurship and leadership skills to underprivileged teens. https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3778670,00.html … Continue reading

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A Jordanian sang in Israel

Aziz Maraka, a singer-songwriter from Jordan, performed to 5,000 Arab-Israelis during the annual Christmas Market festival in Kafr Yasif, Northern Israel. He learned from first-hand that Arabs in Israel enjoy more rights than in many Arab and Muslim countries. https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15470/arab-singer-israel-jordan

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Thousands of pilgrims at baptismal site

Over 20,000 Christians (including Eritreans, Syriacs and Ethiopians) attended baptism ceremonies at Qasr al-Yahud, on the Israeli side of the Jordan River. The procession was led by Jerusalem’s Greek Orthodox patriarch Theophilos III and protected by the IDF and Israeli … Continue reading

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Jews rescue Arabs and vice versa

Israel’s heavy rains are good and bad news. The Kinneret is filling up, but Nahariya’s streets were transformed into rivers. Arab tractor operators rushed to help trapped residents and open blocked roads. At the city hospital (managed by an Arab), … Continue reading

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The first Ethiopian-Israeli female Lt-Col

The IDF’s 91st HaGalil Division now has a new manpower officer, Masala Tagnia. She is the first Ethiopian-Israeli woman to be promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in the IDF. She is the sister of Israel’s TV Channel 12 reporter Brahano Tagnia. … Continue reading

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Fixing homes of the poor

As reported previously (see here) volunteers from Israeli charity Livnot U’Lehabanot repair thousands of houses for the less fortunate of Israeli society. Here is another – Quality of Life, whose team of eight full time handymen has renovated over 10,000 … Continue reading

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A special party

Israeli charities Ezer Mizion and Keilim Meyuchadim made sure that special needs children didn’t miss out on the recent Chanukah celebrations. http://www.ezermizion.org/blog/this-one-is-for-us/  

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Magical – at risk and special needs kids together

Israeli charity My Piece of the Puzzle operates on the 60-acre Jordan River Village in northern Israel, which runs programs for children with disabilities or serious diseases. At-risk kids mix with special needs kids, to the benefit of both groups. … Continue reading

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Fixing the root cause of diabetes

Hebrew University of Jerusalem Professor Motti Chevion has developed Zygosid-50, the first treatment to restore near-normal cellular sensitivity to insulin, without side effects. Israel’s Concenter BioPharma is preparing to trial Zygosid-50 and give new hope to Type 2 diabetics. https://www.israel21c.org/finally-a-pill-that-could-fix-the-root-cause-of-diabetes/

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