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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.

Israel’s Innovation:Africa was awarded the UN Innovation award for bringing solar energy using Israeli technologies to African villages, medical clinics, orphanages and schools. 66 projects in Tanzania, Ethiopia, Uganda and Malawi have benefited 478,661 people.

Back in August I reported the speech of Jean Judes of Beit Issie Shapiro who advised the UN’s Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) about Community Based Rehabilitation. Here now is Jean’s report on the CRPD conference.

Mashav (Israel’s Agency for International Development Cooperation) is holding the 28th International Women Leaders’ Conference in Haifa in cooperation with the United Nations. The conference aims to advance gender equality and women’s empowerment.