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The organization Social Finance Israel presented an innovative blueprint for preventing type-2 diabetes to the G8 Taskforce on Social Impact Investment. Social Impact Bonds invest in companies tackling social or medical issues and governments pay dividends based on results.

The United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly passed an Israeli-sponsored U.N. resolution titled "Entrepreneurship for Development," marking the first time that the U.N. has formally recognized that entrepreneurship should be a major tool in reducing poverty, creating sustainable development, and reinvigorating the environment. Most Arab and Muslim countries voted against.

The Women in Parliament Global Forum awarded Israel with its prize for progress at the European Parliament in Brussels. According to the OECD, Israel is among a minority of 9 percent of developed countries with gender-sensitive institutions in the seat of government.

Don’t believe the BBC or the incitement of non-Bedouin Arab politicians. Watch this video and see what two Bedouin leaders think of Israel’s plan to improve the future of their brethren.

Israel has been sending water and baby food to besieged Syrian villages. The IDF has also been using its groundbreaking freeze-dried plasma innovation in its field hospitals - to save wounded Syrians from blood loss.

Although the IDF mission has returned to Israel, the IsraAID delegation continues to provide relief to the typhoon victims in Ormoc and its surrounding municipalities. The team is dealing with trauma and physical health problems, extending its role as other countries pull out.

The Japan Cultural Institute has awarded Professor Ben-Ami Shillony of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem its annual prize for promoting the understanding between cultures. The JCI’s Foundation for Furtherance of International Cultural Ties selected Prof Ben-Ami’s book “The Secret of Japan’s Strength” (recently translated into Japanese) ahead of 74 other works in Japanese.

The UN on Tuesday passed an Israeli-sponsored resolution on “agricultural technology for development,” a bill dedicated to sustainable agricultural advancements for developing countries. 138 countries voted “Yes” whilst Arab states abstained.

Israeli doctors treated 300 Philippine injured per day and delivered three-dozen babies. The team also rebuilt a school enabling 350 children to restart classes and their parents to return to work. The 148-member team has now handed over to a EU delegation having treated over 2600 patients.

IsraAid has provided almost $100,000 in to displaced Syrians. Plus, and of the treated in Israeli hospitals. Then watch a two-minute BBC program on the Syrians being treated at Israel’s Ziff Hospital in Tsfat.