Israel Active

Ikea in Israel has raised funds to help two Israeli charities (Akim and Chimes) renovate an educational and therapeutic center for toddlers with disabilities in Jaffa.

Israeli water treatment company Mapal Green Energy is building a a sewage water reclamation system for the Palestinian Arab village of Uja, near Jericho. It will recycle domestic sewage and water for use in agriculture.

Good summary in the UK Sunday Telegraph of the work of Israel’s emergency service Magen David Adom both nationally and globally.

Ziv medical center in Safed treated another casualty who sustained serious injuries in the Syrian civil war. And for once a EU official praised Israel’s treatment of “the other”.

Imad Younis founded Alpha Omega in Nazareth in 1993 and received funding from Israel’s Chief Scientist program. Today Alpha Omega employs Moslems, Christians and Jews and ships its brain surgical guidance systems to 500 hospitals and laboratories across the world.

(Thanks to Israel21c) Professor Malka Schaps, a Harvard graduate living in the ultra-Orthodox (haredi) city of Bnei Brak, is the new dean of Bar-Ilan University’s Faculty of Exact Sciences. She had previously founded the university’s program in financial mathematics.

Zichron Menachem - the Israeli association for the support of children with cancer and their families - set a Guinness World Record for donating the most hair to cancer victims in one day. Some 250 women, including cancer survivors, cut 53.1 kg (117 lbs) of their locks for wigs for cancer patients.

A lead IDF team left Israel for the Philippines on Sunday night, which was hit by a devastating typhoon. A further team of 148 flew out on Wednesday. IsraAID is also sending a relief team. A baby born in the IDF field hospital will be named “Israel”.

A live microphone broadcast an interpreter’s private remarks to all GA delegates. “Isn’t it a little weird? There are nine or ten resolutions against Israel. And I know there’s a problem with the Palestinians. But there’s other bad **** going on and they’re spending so much time on this.”

A Syrian woman gave birth at Israel’s Ziv (Sieff) Medical Center in the central Galilee city of Tzfat. The 20-year-old woman was brought to the hospital in active labor by the IDF during the night from a village near Kuneitra, which was under Syrian military curfew with no access to a Syrian hospital. The hospital also treated three Syrians with shrapnel wounds.