Israel Active

Israeli non-profit organisation Tmura has contributed $6.3 million to over 100 educational programs since it started ten years ago. Tmura receives a few share options from early-stage Israeli start-ups and then exercises these options if and when the start-ups are taken over.

Now an Israel Government Hospital, our friend and childbirth educator Wendy Blumfield sent us this write-up of the Nazareth Conference held to celebrate the 150th anniversary of its founding. The audience was Arab Moslem and Christian, Jewish secular and religious.

A fascinating art composition by the Canadian Friends of Herzog Hospital in Jerusalem has shone light on the wonderful work by the hospital for children with respiratory diseases.

Ester Levanon is the woman in charge of one of Israel’s most important financial institutions. Perhaps even more surprising is that CNN has broadcast a feature on her.

The Israeli government has allocated NIS 355 million to improve the sewerage systems in Arab neighbourhoods across Israel.

TopCenter, the Hot Spot for Haifa entrepreneurs has joined up with Mati Haifa to run a series of lectures for Israeli-Arabs who want to make it in the hi-tech industry.

Anet Haschaya said, "Arabs in the country must give more of themselves to get more." Haschaya’s son Deddo recently completed two years in the Duchifat Battalion; daughter Suha serves in the IDF Education Corps, and 19-year-old Hussam hopes to join the Golani Brigade.

Deputy Platoon Commander Captain (res.) Raz Levy, 29, a lawyer from Tel Aviv, is the only Jewish officer to serve in an entirely Druze battalion. There are many instances in which Arab soldiers serve and excel in the IDF's mainly Jewish units, but it rarely happens the other way around.

The annual gathering of the Zionist General Council held in Jerusalem was entitled “Empowering Women within the Zionist Enterprise.” The 400 delegates included many women who have made it their life’s work to contribute to society. (Zionism gave women the vote before many countries.)

(thanks to Israel21c) ‘There’s nothing quite like Israel in the world and nothing quite like the women of Israel,’ says Yael Nitzan. She is transforming an empty 200-year-old sheikh’s palace in Haifa into the Museum of Israeli Women.