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A Palestinian Authority ambulance carrying a very sick woman was stuck in the snow. Luckily, soldiers from the Kfir Brigade were there to help. In the chaos of the snowstorm, the IDF never lost track of it values.

A record 37,400 pets traveled through Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion airport so far in 2013. 49% were dogs, 45% were cats and 6% were fish, birds and rodents. Reasons included their owners' relocation for studies, diplomatic missions and immigration. The airline of choice for Israeli pet owners was El Al.

Israel has delivered 1.2 million liters of diesel into Gaza to restart its power station.

Three Syrians in moderate to serious condition were brought for treatment to Western Galilee hospital in Nahariya in northern Israel. Meanwhile, Doctors at Sheba Medical Center operated on a 4-year-old Syrian boy born with reversed ventricles. His father said “I am happy to have met this country”.

PresenTense Israel, the Ruderman Family Foundation and Beit Issie Shapiro are launching Accelerating Inclusion in Israel (A3i) - the first start-up accelerator for hi-tech and social ventures that helps people with disabilities become entrepreneurs.

Palestinian Arabs stole an Israeli woman’s car with her baby daughter asleep in the back seat. Another Arab then gave the woman his phone so she could call her husband and the police. The husband drove to a nearby Arab village, where locals led him to their car with the baby still asleep inside.

Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon rescued a woman, whose car was stuck on one of Jerusalem’s snow-covered streets. Yaalon and his staff, saw the woman in distress, stopped their vehicle, rolled up their sleeves and pushed the car out of the snow.

An IDF emergency medical team rescued a 10-year-old Palestinian Arab boy whose head was cut open following a car accident and airlifted him to hospital. The team also treated the boy’s mother, who suffered from shock after the accident.

(Thanks to Atid-EDI) Israeli company RADWIN has donated its point-to-point equipment to help re-establish communications networks in areas devastated by Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda). The network infrastructure is essential to the recovery process in order to facilitate relief efforts.

Rabbi Dov Lipman outlines the Israel Technion’s goal to help ultra-orthodox citizens reach the highest Talmudic, academic and professional standards.