Environmentally friendly fashions
Students at Shenkar College of Engineering and Design have created clothes from recycled surplus or defective items donated by a leading retailer. It is part of a project exploring "design as an engine of social impact." The new items were then mass-produced and sold on discount.
An excellent question
Why should anyone in the West boycott Ahava products when Palestinians Arabs in Jericho are selling them? The BDS movement promotes the boycott of Ahava skin care products, but virtually every tour bus that comes to Jericho is directed into the Ahava Temptation store.
An Israeli dairy farm in Iraq?
(Thanks to SDM) A delegation led by Iraqi Kurdistan's agriculture minister and vice president visited Kibbutz Afikim. They plan to build a dairy farm in northern Iraq according to the successful Israeli model. According to Ynet, AfiMilk has already established a camel milking facility in Dubai.
Israelis for Syria
An amazing article about Israeli volunteers from www.il4syrians.org working to help Syrians left wounded and homeless by the fighting in Syria. The 5-mins embedded video features friendship between an Israeli volunteer and a Syrian family. For those who want more, view the youtube video.
IDF airlifts Sudanese refugee’s premature twins to hospital
The IDF evacuated a Sudanese refugee and her two premature babies from Eilat to Assaf Harofeh hospital in Tel Aviv. The babies weighed only 900 grams.
A festival for one shekel
Festival Bashekel features top Israeli and international groups for a ticket price of just NIS 1 – equivalent to 25 US cents. Hundreds of thousands of young Israelis from marginalized communities have benefited and Bashekel even staged a joint Jewish-Arab festival in Gilboa in 2009.
Purim is for everyone
The Institute for the Advancement of the Deaf and the national-religious rabbinic association Tzohar held the first ever sign language reading of the megila (Book of Esther) for the deaf and hard of hearing. More than 600 people attended the reading at the Tel Aviv International Synagogue.
Three Queen Esthers guard the Jewish State
Like their namesake, Corporal Esther Feldhammer, Sergeant Esther Yaso and Sergeant Esther Pakado chose to stand up and be counted when presented with the opportunity to join the IDF and defend their country. Women are exempt from combat duty but all three volunteered.
Miss Israel is an Ethiopian immigrant
Yityish Titi Aynaw, a 21-year-old from Netanya, was chosen to be Israel’s representative in the Miss World 2013 competition - the first Ethiopian-born contestant to win the title.
IDF save PA accident victim
IDF medics saved the life of a Palestinian Authority Arab motorcyclist who suffered severe abdominal bleeding in a crash with a mini-bus near Shechem, otherwise known as Nablus. The Arab is now in a stable condition at Beilinson Hospital in Petach Tikvah, near Tel Aviv.