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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.

Yad Sarah is the leading volunteer-staffed organization in the State of Israel. It has just launched its new facebook site where you can read about the numbers of branches, volunteers, annual loans of medical equipment. But more importantly, about the amazing people involved.

The Hadassah Foundation presented its Bernice S. Tannenbaum Award to Ifat Baron, the founder and Executive Director of Israeli non-profit IT Works. Baron has already been named by Israel's Ministry of Education as the person "with the most influence in IT education in Israel today."

Daniella Hadassi, a drama therapist who treats children at Israel’s Schneider Children's hospital brought her puppet dog Chico to the area of the tsunami disaster in Japan and provided therapy to children who were injured a year ago. The hospital also gave a puppet to each child.

Prime Minister Netanyahu and Ivory Coast’s Muslim President Ouattara noted the close state of bilateral cooperation at their meeting in Israel. They discussed cooperation in the fields of health, agriculture, science and technology.