Israel Active

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.

Israel’s Inbar organization holds events for about 40 disabled singles seeking to find a soul mate. Inbar was founded by Rabbi Shaul Inbari who was born with severe cerebral palsy and dreaded life in an empty house. Rabbi Inbari met Neta at Inbar and married her last year. An amazing video.

A Syrian girl whose right leg was shattered in the civil war is the youngest patient ever to undergo the Ilizarov technique at Israel’s Ziv hospital. Orthopedists, anesthesiologists, plastic surgeons, physiotherapists and operating theater staffers succeeded in saving and restoring her leg.

Ziv Hospital in Tzfat treated two 25-year-old Syrians suffering from gunshot wounds in the chest and limbs. Two more arrived later in the week, suffering from shrapnel injuries. Another Syrian was evacuated to the Western Galilee Hospital in Nahariya in moderate to serious condition.