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Haifa’s Rambam Medical Center is taking care of a baby girl in the nephrology department, two children in oncology and an adult in urology. Jerusalem’s Hadassah Ein Kerem has six Gazan patients. At Tel Hashomer a Gaza girl is in the same room as a boy injured from a Hamas rocket.

Unbelievable – whilst Gaza terrorists were firing hundreds of rockets at Israeli civilians, Israel was still sending in truckloads of food and medical supplies. Israel provides Gazans with five million cubic meters of water every day and 125 megawatts of electricity from the power station in Ashkelon.

Positive information about Israel’s policy for allowing genuine asylum seekers into the Jewish State.

Officers and soldiers from the Israel Defense Forces have been volunteers in Schneider Children's Educational Center for the past 11 years. This year the unit, known as “Shatal 121”, was awarded the 2012 "President's Prize for Volunteers".

Israel’s Magen David Adom has been hosting doctors and paramedics from eight countries to pass on experience regarding dealing with mass catastrophes. The participants were from hospitals in the USA, England, Italy, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Australia, South Africa and Haiti.

President John Dramani Mahama congratulated the Israeli government for sending in experts in rescue mission to assist in efforts to help people trapped under the debris of the collapsed Achimota branch of Melcom Shopping Mall. The eight member team included sniffer dogs and high tech equipment including life detectors, sensors, cameras and drilling equipment.

A delegation of 48 executives from the Massachusetts water industry cluster travel to Israel in December to develop Israeli partnerships to help satisfy the world’s thirst for water. They will run a competition to bring Israeli executives to the USA to meet potential customers and investors.

"It's our job." Those were the words of outgoing commander of the Israel Air Force International “Desert Giants” Squadron, responsible for the humanitarian aid delegations sent by the IDF abroad.

Significant numbers of Bedouin continue to join the IDF and put the age-old Bedouin tracker knowledge in the service of Israel’s national security. Kasem Juamis, of the village of Zarzir, has just completed the basic training, and was cited by his commanders for being the most outstanding recruit.

Start-up Weekend Nazareth was sponsored by companies including Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP), Cisco and Google. “There is huge potential for creativity and innovation amongst youth from the Arab sector”, said Erel Margalit, founder and chairman of JVP.