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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”.

Original article was in the Media Line, but nice to see it here.

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.

New Israeli government legislation has been approved that requires tour companies and car rental firms to provide services and facilities for handicapped people. Tour companies must have accessible buses and rental firms must provide vehicles that can transport disabled passengers.

The head of the situation room at Ethiopia’s Foreign Ministry Getachew Teshoma and his deputy Yeganaw Mengist Belay visited Magen David Adom at MDA’s Tel Aviv headquarters to learn from Israel’s first aid, ambulance and blood supply organization.

Moshe Hattori served as a Protestant minister in Japan’s fourth-largest city – much to the annoyance of his Buddhist parents. However his journey to Judaism and becoming a Jerusalem kollel student is an even greater eye-opener.

Israel’s national water company Mekorot is working with the OECD to disseminate Israeli know-how and technologies to third world countries as part of an effort to deal with the global water crisis.