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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.”

Israel’s Interior Minister Gideon Sa'ar has approved the arrival of three young Iraqi children to Israel, in order to receive lifesaving medical care from Israel-based international organization Save a Child's Heart.

Israel's business site Calcalist reports that Qatar’s Prince Khalifa Al-Thani is to visit Israel this November. This would be the first official visit of a member of the Qatari royal family to Israel, and he has expressed his desire to promote high-tech cooperation between Qatar and Israel.

Over 85 at-risk children aged from 7 to 14 receive a secure and stable home environment, therapeutic treatment and special education at the Jerusalem Hills Therapeutic Center. Since 1943 the three JHTCs have rehabilitated more than one thousand graduates back into Israel's normative society.

A delegation from Ben Gurion University’s Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research has toured the Galapagos Islands and has signed a cooperation agreement with the Directorate of the National Park to promote the conservation of the endangered biological diversity of the islands.