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The inaugural Africa's Voices in Israel mission has arrived in Israel and features a delegation of Bank Governors from Kenya, Uganda, South Sudan, Zambia, Ghana and Swaziland. The tour will include Save A Child's Heart, where 40 percent of the patients are young children from Africa.

A quarter of a million Israeli 3-4 year-olds will benefit from the free education law in the coming year. The three-year plan has been implemented two years ahead of schedule. The cabinet also discussed Israeli Book Week and Hebrew literature, integration of minorities and natural gas.

Legendary actor Chaim Topol was one of several celebrities who inaugurated the 60-acre campus overlooking the Yavne’el valley in the Galilee. The village will provide respite for children with serious or life threatening illnesses and was the dream of Hollywood legend Paul Newman.

Haifa University’s 40th Meeting of the Board of Governors enjoyed a festive and exciting opening ceremony to celebrate “The Israeli Mosaic“. Nine honorary doctorates were conferred on people who have contributed to humanity and have made the world a better place.

Peter Magabe’s first job after leaving school was as a tea-picker in Kenya. Now Dr. Magabe returns to his homeland from Israel, trained as one of the two interventional radiologists in East Africa, an area of 1.8 million square kilometers with a combined population of more than 130 million.

The keynote speaker at the 4th annual Israel Wikipedia Academy conference at the Herzliya IDC was Jay Walsh, Head of Communications at the Wikimedia Foundation. He said that the Israeli Wikipedia community is a great model for success to look at. We have a lot to learn from what’s going on here.”

Israel has sent a 66-member delegation Rio de Janeiro for the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development. Environmental Protection Minister Gilad Erdan said, “Our main goal is to present Israel’s solution to the world crisis. We want to focus on giving them our knowledge”.

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The Israeli Ministry of Agriculture provided three days of lectures, free of charge, for officials of the Palestinian Authority Ministry of Agriculture at the Seasons Hotel in Netanya. The seminar focused on various agricultural technologies and methods of plant protection to improve output.

Four Israelis made the list of the 100 most influential women in high tech in Europe drawn up by Girls in Tech London Group, the UK branch of Silicon Valley-based Girls in Tech. Selections were made on the basis of leadership and excellence in innovation and technology.