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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.

Orit served as a medic in the Israeli army and saved the life of a Palestinian Arab boy caught in machinery. Then she had to treat a notorious terrorist in prison. She gave him IV fluids and medication - everything he needed, since she was trained to treat those in need regardless of their moral standards, regardless of nationality.

Israel’s Channel 2 recently featured (with English subtitles) the life journey of Professor Ashraf Brik of Ben Gurion University’s department of Chemistry. Winner of the Teva Award for Excellence, Professor Brik was the first member of his family to pursue higher education.

(Thanks to Hazel) Kamel Abu Nadi, a Bedouin from Israel’s Negev desert, believes that the Israeli government's new plan of community and economic development in the Bedouin community - if implemented correctly - might bring about dramatic improvement in the quality of life of the Negev's Bedouin.

(Thanks to Joy Wolfe) Larry Rich, from Emek Hospital in Afula, Israel spoke to an audience of over 60 in the Scottish Parliament about Israel’s equal treatment of its patients and medical staff, whatever their religion. One supporter of boycotting Israel criticized the Jewish State and then had the gall to ask for Israel’s aid for someone with a serious medical condition. Larry agreed to help.