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This is true co-existence. The Arab-Hebrew Theatre of Jaffa hosts bilingual plays - in Hebrew and Arabic - that increase understanding between people and bind the audiences and the actors in a common, fun experience.

Elder of Ziyon has a nice image of Israeli Arab Moslem girls having a good time river rafting at Israel’s Nahal Snir Nature Reserve.

Israel’s Ramat Gan Safari park has sent a shipment of 40 different animal species to Turkey in order to reinforce the Izmir Wildlife Park. Turkish zookeepers in Izmir had previously asked Ramat Gan Safari for help in boosting their zoological collection.

3-year-old Mohammed was born with a genetic disorder that required the amputation of his hands and feet. Abandoned by his parents and the Palestinian Authority, Mohammed has been at Tel Hashomer Hospital in Ramat Gan all his life with his grandfather, on funds raised by the doctors.

Israel’s Technion is working with Al Quds University, in order to attempt to remove pharmaceutical residues from wastewater. The project, sponsored by the Shimon Peres Center for Peace, is trying to create a community of water researchers working together and visiting each other’s facilities.

Palestinian Authority Health Minister Hani Abdeen visited Jerusalem’s Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital - the first ever visit by a PA minister to Israel’s largest medical facility. There are some 60 Palestinian Arab doctors in residency at the hospital.

The Israel Defense Forces has become the first army in the world to use powdered blood products in field operations. It was given to a Palestinian Arab with internal bleeding following an auto accident. The man recovered at Hadassah Hospital and has since been discharged.

An Israeli specialist mine removal team has cleared dozens of landmines planted by the Jordanian army in 1967 outside the Arab village of Husan near Bethlehem. The Arab Council supported the project and visited the site each day. The mines had killed four local children previously.

(Thanks to Israel21c) Israelis Daniel Moores and Abraham Cohen cycled 1200 km on the highest road in the world to raise over $4200 for low-income communities in Nepal. The journey from Tibet to Kathmandu in Nepal took two weeks, at altitudes up to 5000 meters.

Interesting source for this positive article on the Bedouin trackers who help protect the borders of the Jewish State. “The state of Bedouin in Israel is better, as far as the respect we get, our progress, education,” says Lieutenant Colonel Magdi Mazarib. “It’s a different league.”