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Shelly Hod Moyal and Mor Assia are founding partners of iAngels, a crowdfunding platform that focuses exclusively on Israeli startups. Two of their startups are also founded by women – Liat Hertanu of 24.me and Maayan Cohen of Hello Heart - both now available on the Apple Watch.

Two wounded Syrians were taken to the Baruch Padeh Medical Center–Poriya Hospital in Tiberias. One of the injured was 27 years old and had shrapnel in his upper body. The other was 26 and had a bullet lodged in his spine. So far the hospital has treated 176 wounded from the war in Syria.

Four of Haifa’s Rambam hospital doctors have been saving lives in Nepal. Dr Itai Shavit took care of premature babies; Dr Arik Shechter helped set up field hospitals in Northern Nepal. The other doctors were cardiologist Dr Oved Cohen and anesthesiologist Dr Amit Lehavi. Meanwhile, Sheba (Tel Hashomer sent three doctors and two nurses, including Professor Eli Schwartz, director of Sheba's Travel Clinic.

Please read this article, from Dr Giora Weiser who was part of the Israeli medical delegation and field hospital in Nepal. He saw devastation and trauma on a scale that he had never witnessed before, but saved many lives. Dr Weiser would like you to tell this to Kenneth Roth of Human Rights Watch.

When a student’s baby started crying in one of the Organizational Behavior lectures of Professor Sydney Engelberg, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem professor picked up the baby, calmed it down and continued the lecture whilst holding the baby. The photo has gone viral on facebook.

Here is what the English Speaking Residents Association is doing to help the 30,000 plus Ethiopian community in my home city of Netanya.

Israel’s Yad Sarah organization has distributed emergency beepers to 20,000 people who live alone. Users can contact Yad Sarah, a doctor, police, an ambulance, relatives and others at any time using a button on a bracelet.

Only Israel would consider pensioners, students, minorities and women important enough to have a ministry set-up for them.

Two wounded Syrians were treated at the Baruch Padeh Medical Center in Poriya near Tiberias overnight on Wednesday. One of the injured, a 17-year-old, was treated for shrapnel wounds. And a miracle – CNN praises Israel’s treatment of wounded Syrians (although the sound quality is poor).

Israel’s RWL Water has built a major water treatment facility in Colombia. RWL treats the 86,000 cubic meters of water a day produced during extraction of oil in Campo Rubiales, so that it reaches a level suitable for irrigation.