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At the Dell Future Ready Conference in Tel Aviv, Michael Dell, founder and CEO of Dell stated "Israel's performance has inspired the entire world, and it's important for us to be in Israel”.  He also used the event to name Dell Technologies as the merged Dell-EMC2 partnership.

My wife had a letter published in the media highlighting that London’s Thames Water company once boycotted Israeli companies but now uses one to purify its wastewater.  Please use my database to publicize positive messages in the press about Israel.

For the first time in five years, an Israeli delegation is in Turkey. It is exhibiting at the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul, reflecting the Jewish tradition of ‘Tikkun Olam’ (repair the world) in responding to international disasters and assisting developing countries.

Likud MK Avraham Neguise met at the Knesset a delegation of women from several African countries. They included politicians and academics, as part of the UN Women initiative.  Neguise urged merging Israeli tech and fertile African soil to effect change in Africa.

Sadel Technology, founded by Technion graduate Ibrahim Sana, is the first Israeli Bedouin hi-tech company.  Most of SadelTech’s 15 employees are Bedouins, including three women.  SadelTech provides mobile and web app development and software quality assurance.

The Israeli government voted to spend some 900 million shekels ($240 million) to develop and strengthen Israeli-Arab Bedouin communities in northern Israel over the next four years.  The money is to improve local infrastructure, schools, and welfare services.

Israeli NGO Mesila encourages and teaches Haredim to become financially independent - breaking the Haredi cycle of poverty.  Last year it reached 8000 men, women and children, in Israel, USA, Canada and the UK - helping them to seek, achieve and maintain financial stability.

The theme for children’s arts projects during Education Week in Jerusalem was “My home, your home”.  Projects in Hebrew and Arabic were displayed next to each other.  Please take a look at the photos, and note the diverse groups that attended the opening event.

The Helmsley Charitable Trust has donated $10 million to the Poriah hospital in Tiberias and the Ziv Medical Center in Safed that treat Syrian wounded.  Another beneficiary is the Wolfson Medical Center in Holon where surgeons from Save a Child’s Heart operate on overseas children.

Google is granting $700,000 to Tikkun Olam Makers (TOM), an Israel-based initiative aimed at producing technology to help people with disabilities.  TOM’s 120 prototypes include a bionic hand and a walker that helps disabled people climb stairs.