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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”.

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.

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.

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

The Meir Panim Free Restaurant in Tiberias is celebrating its 12th anniversary. Funded entirely by Mrs Lee Steinberg of New York, the restaurant serves 160 meals every day to needy residents and delivers another 60 meals to the homebound. It provides a dignified and social atmosphere for its customers.

11-year-old Uriel Wang from Jerusalem has had two bone marrow transplants to treat his leukemia. Thanks to the Jerusalem Big Blue Lions football team, Uriel achieved his dream of playing for the team and scored a dramatic touchdown, with a little help from both sides.