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The Israeli Ministry of Economy held the first Israeli Food Festival in 25 Costco stores across Japan.  A separate Israeli food festival took place in Vietnam in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.

Israel has returned two colorful Egyptian sarcophagus covers from the 16th and 10th centuries BCE to Egypt amid warming relations between the countries.  The artifacts were stolen and shipped to Dubai to London and to Israel. They were found in an antiquities shop in Jerusalem's Old City.

Emotional video of an IDF soldier volunteer at Tel Hashomer hospital playing with a Palestinian Arab infant who is being treated for cancer at the Israeli hospital.

The TRI/O Tech entrepreneurship hub in the Israeli-Arab town of Kafr Kassem is a joint venture of Israeli nonprofit Tsofen and the MIT Enterprise Forum Israel. From 1000 candidates it is grooming 16 Israeli-Arabs that it believes will go on to launch their own startup.

Hapoel Beersheba just won Israel’s Premier league soccer title.  Seeing female owner Alona Barkat celebrated by the male coaches and players demonstrates a beautiful side of Israel.  The players include Jews, Muslims and Christians. All stood side by side for the national anthem.

The World Health Organization will approve the PrePex device by Israel-based Circ MedTech. It allows medical workers in Africa to perform painless circumcisions to help stop the spread of AIDS. WHO’s prequalification will allow PrePex it to be offered to adult males in 14 countries.

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.