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In one day, 231 patients and caregivers left Gaza via the Kerem Shalom Crossing and Ramon Airport to receive medical treatment in the United Arab Emirates and Romania. It was just one of several humanitarian initiatives led by Israel in collaboration with the UAE, Romania and the EU.

Tel Aviv University (TAU) has maintained its global position as the seventh highest institution for producing entrepreneurs – graduates who founded companies and raised capital. TAU is also the highest ranked non-USA institution. (See for previous years’ rankings)

The first-ever "Women at the Front" Jerusalem conference attracted 250 Israeli women in senior positions at leading hi-tech companies. It featured lectures, panels, workshops dealing with AI, smart career management and startups raising capital and penetrating global markets.

Two Israeli doctors, members of Rescuers Without Borders, joined local Jewish volunteers from Warsaw in combatting floodwaters in Poland, as torrential rain and floods pounded Central Europe. Rescuers Without Borders is an Israeli-French medical relief group,

IDF soldiers on the border with Lebanon found a white pelican that was injured by a bullet and was unable to fly. Israel’s Nature and Parks Authority treated the bird for a fractured wing and then, after it had healed, released it back into the wild at the Hula river in northern Israel.

Ben Gurion University’s Prof. Amir Sagi won a Lifetime Achievement Award in University Transformation from the ACEEU Asia-Pacific Triple E Awards. The award ceremony took place in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia, which does not have diplomatic relations with Israel.

Israel’s Technion Institute awarded awarded degrees to 258 students from 12 countries, including China, Russia, Germany, Spain, Brazil, and South Korea. 44 pf students were from the faculty of medicine, 23 from Electrical and Computer Engineering and 23 from Computer Science; 47%, were women.

The IDF transferred 23 Gazan patients, mostly children, along with 26 chaperones from the Kamal Adwan Hospital to active hospitals in the Gaza Strip. They used 5 ambulances, accompanied by 4 UN vehicles in coordination with WHO and UNICEF.

Eylon Levy on State of the Nation interviews Mansur Ashkar, an Israeli Druze leader, activist, and ex-IDF special forces officer, who was stationed in Gaza before the disengagement. He believes that Jews & the Druze are the prime example that Israel aspires for peace and coexistence.

As the first Haredi Hesder yeshivot founded in 2017 by Haredim, Chedvata offers a unique combination of Torah study, military service and college training, while maintaining the high religious standards of its participants. Hundreds of graduates serve in Gaza and Lebanon.