Israel Active

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.

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”.