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The "Line for Life" Association has completed a new NIS 6 million home for its graduates. Situated in Kibbutz HaGoshrim, it will house eight individuals aged 21+ who will integrate into the local community, study at Tel Hai College, and then work in the surrounding communities.

Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics has just reported that 55.1% of Israel’s Arab Christians studied for a bachelor’s degree within eight years of graduating high school, compared to 34.6% of Arabs and 48.1% of all Israelis.

Tens of thousands of cyclists around the world responded to Israel-Premier Tech cycling team owner Sylvan Adams’s call to join the ride in over 40 cities across the globe to mark 100 days in captivity for the hostages of Hamas.  

Israel’s Perception Point (see previously) has partnered Dubai-based Securenet FZC to protect Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries from online attacks.

Despite the war, the United Arab Emirates is to open a Haifa center for research into Artificial Intelligence and Information Retrieval. It will be the Israeli arm of the UAE’s the Technology Innovation Institute (TII) that invented the Falcon Open Source Large Language Model.

Superb support messages from Oracle’a CEO Safra Catz. “America in particular loves a winner. And Israel is a winner”. Oracle put ‘We stand with Israel’ on global websites in the local language to publicize how important Israel is and what the difference is between good and evil.

Czech President Petr Pavel assured his Israel’s President Herzog that his country stands shoulder to shoulder with the Jewish state in its battle to defeat Hamas.  “You can always rely on the Czech Republic,” Pavel told Herzog when they met at the President’s residence in Jerusalem.

Israeli NGO Sharaka (Partnership) brought a delegation of Indian journalists and social-media influencers, to tour Israel in the wake of Oct. 7 and the current war. It included three Muslim writers and an Afghan journalist living in Germany.

Lt. Col. Avichay Adraee is head of the Arab Media Branch in the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit, tasked with refuting the lies of Al Jazeera and other Hamas supporters. His deputy is Major Ella Waweya (see previously) – a Muslim woman, known as “Captain Ella”, even after promotion.

Sophia Khalifa tells her story.  Please watch and forward this video.