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Jalal Toukhi trained as a lawyer in Tel Aviv municipality and has a Social Studies master’s from Al-Quds University. He is the first Israeli Arab to be principal of an Israeli school. The Ajyal school in Jaffa has 150 teachers from all sectors and religions, and is one of the best in Israel.

By a majority of 115, the United Nations General Assembly elected Israel to its Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.  UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan was “proud to see more Israeli women leading & promoting women’s rights across the globe".

The deputy chief of IDF Unit 8200 said that his intelligence agency warned the United States of attempts to hack the country's power plants in time to thwart the cyberattack. The IDF spotted the attack on the US while they were defending Israel’s water systems

Israel’s IsraAID is working with local partners to provide humanitarian relief to victims of the magnitude 6.1 earthquake in Eastern Afghanistan. It plans to provide essential items such as bandages, sterile syringes, gauze, suture kits, tourniquets, pain killers, antibiotics, and basic medication.

United Hatzalah’s Khaled Hardan, a Muslim volunteer paramedic from Wadi Ara in northern Israel, flew to Warsaw to help ensure Jewish Ukrainians could undertake the journey to Israel. Khaled said, “I am happy that I was part of the team that was able to bring them to Israel.”

Apple’s R&D centers in Herzliya and Haifa currently employ 2,000 Israeli engineers working on Apple M1 chips and depth sensing camera. Apple also has 60 Palestinian Arab engineers at its Apple hub in the new PA city of Rawabi, run in partnership with PA company, ASAL Technologies.

Israel is among the first countries in the world to ban chicken cages for egg-laying hens and to move to non-cage systems. Israel’s new regulations also include providing regular care for chickens and bans on the practice of induced molting and beak trimming.

Israeli NGO Yozmot Atid empowers women from Israel’s geographical, social, and economic periphery. Its training program helps some 1,000 women each year start businesses and become financially independent. The NGO took dozens of senior Israeli executives on a tour of the businesses.

The IDF has appointed the first woman to command a brigade. Colonel Reut Rettig-Weiss will command the 99th Division's Artillery Brigade. She was previously the first woman to become battalion commander of the IDF’s Artillery Corps' SkyRiders drone unit.

In the latest IMD World Competitiveness Rankings, Israel is 25th overall of the 63 countries surveyed but World Number One for its total expenditure on Research & Development. Also 2nd for cybersecurity, 3rd for public expenditure on education, and 5th for women with degrees.