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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.

Ilanot is a school in Jerusalem for children with physical and cognitive disabilities.  Seventy students aged six to twenty-one attend the school daily.  The school provides students with knowledge to improve motor function and help independence to increase their quality of life.

Cancer charity Ezer Mizion transports the sick, frail, elderly and disabled to treatment centers, therapy clinics and doctor’s appointments.  And it even takes them to weddings and the Western Wall - after all, everyone needs to enjoy life.

Israeli Gili Navon used her Master’s degree from Hebrew University of Jerusalem to found the charity Amar Majuli (“Our Majuli”) and enhance the livelihood and wellbeing of the Mising tribe on the island of Majuli in Assam, northern India.

A group of business people, intelligence experts and academics have participated in the Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce Security Delegation to Israel.  Analyses included from Bar-Ilan University’s Prof. Efraim Inbar and University President Rabbi Prof. Daniel Hershkowitz.