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Israel has sent 1.5 million tons of medical and humanitarian aid to Serbia. The first shipment of emergency aid included medicine, food, blankets and rain gear. Israel is due to send more aid, including water pumps. The second link includes both aid to Serbia and to other disaster areas.

(Thanks to Hazel) Farmers in southwestern France have responded to dwindling water resources by adopting drip irrigation - a money-saving technique invented in the 1960s in Israel. Growers say that drip irrigation has helped them save water, fertilizer and increase yields.

The International Business Times called India’s newly elected Prime Minister Narendra Modi “Israel's best friend in South Asia”. As Chief Minister of the Gujarat province, Modi endorsed joint projects in industrial R&D, solar & thermal power, water recycling, desalination and more.

Rivka Yeruslavsky was born into an Israeli ultra-Orthodox family and studied computer science. She then went on to open the Strauss Campus of Lomda - Israel’s largest vocational institute, designed to bring more haredim into the workforce.

The Israeli government is offering promising Israeli Arab entrepreneurs and scientists 200 hours of free business consulting, plus research and development grants of up to 85 percent of the funding required to produce their new ideas in the lab.

Israel’s Dr. Rania Okby, a specialist in maternal fetal medicine, is the first female Bedouin doctor in the world and a role model for Bedouin women in Israel.

In Sept 2012 I included a story about the Israeli emergency service Magen David Adom fulfilling the wish of a 6-year old girl from Gaza suffering from leukaemia. I have just received the youtube video of that story.

(Thanks to Uri) Israel’s Agency for International Development Cooperation (MASHAV) and The Young Americas Business Trust (YABT) will conduct 12 workshops on Entrepreneurship and Business Development for young people from Latin America and the Caribbean.

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan welcomed the offer by Israel’s Prime Minister to send a team of counter-terrorism experts to assist in the search and rescue operations for nearly 200 Christian schoolgirls kidnapped by Islamic terrorists Boko Haram.

Israel’s emergency service Magen David Adom has offered the Turkish Red Crescent assistance after an explosion and fire in a coalmine in the town of Soma that killed more than 200 people. MDA said they could provide valuable manpower and medical equipment.