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Following the news that Israeli doctors fixed the reversed ventricles of Hamoudi - a 4-year-old boy - his father said, "We always heard in the Arab media how children from the Gaza Strip and the West Bank were receiving medical treatment in Israel.”

Hamad Amar is a member of Israel’s Druze minority and Deputy Speaker of Knesset. “I initiated an overhaul, repair and modernization of the sewage and water systems and the electricity grids in predominantly Arab areas in the north of the country, long ignored by others. This is what can happen if one chooses integration and contribution over ostracism and demonization,” he declared.

(Thanks to Size Doesn’t Matter) Israel is seeing a growing trend of strong female founders charging ahead to start their companies, bringing unique background as Product UX experts, software developers, researchers, marketing professionals, engineers and architects.

Those were the words of one of SodaStream’s Palestinian Arab employees during a UK Zionist Federation visit of the Israeli company’s factory in Judea. Another employee’s remark was “"you wouldn't get treated like this anywhere in the Arab world". (Thanks to Stuart Palmer)

A positive outlook on how peace between Israel and the Palestinian Arabs might come about. The new PA city of Rawabi will use Israeli wastewater treatment and grow JNF trees. Technical innovation plus regional cooperation could bring a win-win outcome.

Muath is a four-year-old Palestinian Arab boy from Hebron who was born with congenital heart disease. Two brothers previously died of the disease. Now Muath is about to undergo critical surgery at Wolfson Medical Center thanks to Israel’s Save A Child’s Heart.

Ziv Medical Center in Safed treated its 200th wounded Syrian. The 21-year-old patient was in serious condition with gunshot wounds to his hip and stomach.

Muslims, Druse, Beduins, and Christian Arabs staunchly came out in support of the country as a Jewish and democratic state at a Zionist Conference for Human Rights in Tel Aviv

As per every year, the Jerusalem municipality, with the support of the Jewish National Fund, distributed fir trees free of charge to Christian residents of the city.

It’s even better than his “Boycott Israel” video.