Israel Active

At the height of Arab riots, Dr Micah Shamir quietly entered the PA city of Nablus (Shechem) without an army escort in order to save the life of a Palestinian Arab who had been badly injured after PA doctors called for help. The Arab is now recovering in an Israeli hospital.

Assaf Harofeh Medical Center in Tel Aviv has teamed up with the Living Bread International Church to heal children who receive inadequate healthcare in Gaza and the Palestinian Territories. The "Rescue the Child" project was set-up when LBIC contacted the Israeli Army.

Israel will export 18,000 tons of apples grown by Druze farmers on the Golan Heights to Syria over the next three months. It benefits Israel, (keeps the price of the fruit stable); the Druze farmers (able to market their surplus); and the Syrians gain a supply of regionally grown fresh apples.

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.

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.

(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.

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.

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.

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.

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.