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The Center for Children with Chronic Diseases in Hadassah Mt. Scopus has announced a new support group for siblings of chronically ill or handicapped children. Siblings struggling with emotional, familial and social challenges will receive weekly counseling starting in November.

(Thanks to Hazel) The world’s largest Muslim country will utilize advance technology from Israel to build roads in its most eastern and poorest province of Papua. Authorities have issued permits for the import of a chemical hardener and use of manpower from Israel.

The private sector investment arm of the World Bank is set to become a major investor in Israeli seed and breeding-technology company Kaiima. Kaiima focuses on developing strains of plants that are more resilient and yield more grain.

For the upcoming High Holidays Israeli farmers across the country are donating 1.5 tons of beef to feed 350 needy families in Hadera and the surrounding area.

Five Arab schools in East Jerusalem have decided to switch from the Palestinian to the Israeli curriculum. Jerusalem’s city council said the schools had made the switch so that their students could study for the Israeli bagrut (matriculation exam). The PA is not happy, however.

A controversial youtube video showing Israeli soldiers in uniform being carried on the shoulders of Palestinian Arabs in Hebron has gone viral.

Big feature article on the wounded Syrians being treated in Israeli hospitals. Meanwhile, another two wounded Syrians were brought for treatment to Ziv Medical Center in Safed on Friday.

Master Sgt. Marzuk Suaed, 37, a Bedouin father of three, comes from a large family in which everyone enlisted into the IDF, many of them serving in combat units. Saued goes from door to door telling Bedouin youngsters the importance of enlisting.

BDS crazies should note that the number of Palestinian Arabs working for Israelis in Judea and Samaria increased by 4,000 in the second quarter of 2013. These 20,000 Arabs receive double the average PA government wage.

News of Israel’s treatment of wounded Syrians has reached the Beeboids. Although they can’t seem to understand why Israel doesn’t want to talk to them about it.