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Almost 280 women from 15 countries gathered in Israel for an 8-day journey focused on Jewish identity and connection to Israel. The Momentum Journey of Growth project included participants from India, Venezuela, France, Canada, the United States, and Spain.

Speaking on the Israeli Arabic-language radio program Voice of the Druze, a Syrian Druze woman, identifying herself as Rama Rida, said her people would have been “completely destroyed” without the intervention of the IDF.

ELEM/Youth in Distress in Israel is Israel’s leading non-profit serving at-risk youth, handling some 13,000 young people across the country’s vast demographic spectrum. With 380 employees and more than 1,200 volunteers, it has established new programs in the aftermath of Oct 7 2023.

Dr. Shimrit Maman (see previously) has been appointed as the first female head of the Israel Space Agency. Her role includes advising Israel’s Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology on national space development and funding policy. It’s the highest position anyone can go!

Israeli Arab vlogger Nuseir Yassin, better known as NAS Daily, has made a sensational video to promote Israel’s BlueTree Technologies and its groundbreaking process for making reduced sugar orange juice. It may lead to a major future reduction in global obesity and diabetes.

Over the past decade, the registered 501(c)3 Ne’eman Foundation has facilitated the transfer of more than $100 million in charitable donations from North American donors to Israeli good causes. Donations to some 1,400 organizations (e.g. United for Israel) via Ne’eman, are tax deductible for US citizens.

Israel has delivered another large shipment of aid (food and medical supplies) to the embattled Druze population of Sweida in southern Syria. It follows an initial delivery of aid in March.

Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders, daughter of US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, leads a trade mission to Israel and the UAE. Sanders said that “Israel .. as my dad likes to say, is the one place in the world you visit for the first time, and it feels like coming home.”

Ezra Cohen, the Panamanian ambassador to Israel (see previously), talks about the potential that exists between Panama and Israel.

The U.S.-backed, Israeli facilitated Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has reached a milestone of delivering 100 million total meals to Gazans since beginning operations roughly two months ago. It called for other humanitarian groups, including the U.N., to step up and collaborate with them.