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The IDF brought another victim of the Syrian civil war to the Ziv (Sieff) Medical Center in the central Galilee city of Tzfat for treatment.

Nevada governor, Brian Sandoval, is visiting Israel’s Negev in October to learn more about indoor farming, and how using Israeli technology could rejuvenate Nevada’s lackluster farming industry. Nevada is already in contact with Israel’s national water company, Mekorot.

A Syrian man who was wounded by shrapnel and gunfire in the ongoing civil war in his country was transferred on Monday evening to the Ziv Hospital in Tzfat. The man had suffered moderate wounds to his waist and was expected to undergo surgery.

Israel’s beauty queen, 22-year-old Ethiopian-born Yityish Aynaw, was in Los Angeles as a guest of Christian preacher Rev. Ronald V. Myers. He said that everyone should know what Israel did to rescue Ethiopian Jews.

(Thanks to Elaine) The Christian organization Shevet Achim works in places like Jordan, Iraq and the Gaza strip. It funds and transports children requiring heart surgery to Israeli hospitals such as Save A Child’s Heart’s Wolfson and at Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer.

Egyptian doctor Mohamed Helmy is the first Arab to be designated “Righteous Among the Nations” by Israel’s holocaust center Yad Vashem. Dr Helmy hid a Jewish family in Berlin from 1942 to 1944. Dr Helmy died in Berlin in 1982.

(Thanks to Size Doesn’t Matter) Around 500 Israeli-made hi-resolution cameras with nighttime vision have been installed on the Kolkata (Calcutta) subway.

(Thanks to Geoff) I just found this item from August. Haim Attias from Judea’s Mitzpe Yericho resuscitated Haitham Azloni at the Arab bazaar in the Old City. Azloni said, “No one came to help me, none of the brothers, no Arabs. Only one Orthodox Jewish man.”

(Thanks to Size Doesn’t Matter and The National) Currently visiting Winnipeg Canada is a team of 11-14-year-old Israeli hockey players. The team comprises Jews, Christians and Moslem kids who are among 400 children that regularly train at the only ice-rink in Israel.

In Feb 2012 I reported on Café Motek, which employs staff with psychiatric disabilities. Now, when you buy plants at Botanica in Jerusalem’s new First Station complex, you may be served by clients of Shaf Yativ - a charity that integrates people with mental illness into society.