Israel Active

Israel rose 2 places to 23rd in the 2025 Global Talent Competitive Index from the INSEAD business school and Portulans Institute for Research.  It scored high for R&D, retaining talent, and leadership. Political instability prevented a higher rating, as surprisingly did tolerance to immigrants!

At the opening of Ecuador’s new Center of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Jerusalem, Foreign Minister Sa’ar said that the South American country, under President Daniel Noboa’s leadership, “is among Israel’s greatest friends in Latin America and the world.” (see also in Science & Tech) .

In last week’s newsletter I wrote “Avera Manfisto - a 5-years hostage of Hamas”. It should have read Avera Mengistu – 10 years and 5 months hostage of Hamas.  Apologies for my wrongdoing (In Hebrew = Averah!)

President Herzog welcomed Imams and Muslim community leaders from Senegal, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Benin, and Togo to Jerusalem. The delegation came to promote a message of peace, coexistence, and partnership between Muslims and Jews, and between Africa and Israel.

The Jordan Gateway Project would entail building a joint Israeli-Jordanian cross-border industrial park on a key node in the future India–Middle East–Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC). The park would include a hospital servicing seriously ill Jordanian patients.

Hundreds of Syrian Druze marched through Sweida - where radical Islamic terrorists once left a trail of slaughter - raising Israeli flags and photos of Israel’s Prime Minister. They were honoring the Jewish State, whose field hospitals and humanitarian aid helped their community survive.

The annual Eastern Jerusalem United Hatzalah event brought Arab and Jewish medics together, united by one mission: to save lives.

Ger Hassid Yehuda Sabiner grew up in Har Nof, Jerusalem. Long video but worth hearing him speak.

Seventy IDF  from the Hasmonean Brigade completed the IDF’s first Haredi squad commanders course after intensive nationwide training and combat experience in Gaza.

The Jewish National Fund (KKL-JNF) invited persons with disabilities to four accessible Israel hiking trails ahead of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities marked on Dec 3. Givat HaMoreh in the Jezreel, Jordan Park (North of the Kinneret), Martyrs’ Forest (West of Jerusalem), and the Arch Cave.