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USAID’s Bureau for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance has given the maximum grant from its global fund for disabled people to the Persons with Disabilities Initiative in Montenegro, implemented by World ORT’s International Cooperation division.

Israel’s Environmental Protection Agency recently launched a free online game and iphone application called Thinking Green, aimed at promoting eco-conscious consumerism. It is available in English, Hebrew, Arabic and Russian.

Israel's Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor, together with telecom company Bezeq, have launched a new call centre inside a local mosque. Now, dozens of women from one Bedouin town are earning a competitive salary without breaking societal norms.

This Israeli video from the Together Project, features deaf and hearing-impaired people of different races and religions dancing and signing in unison to Me’ir Banai’s “Shafshaf’s song”.

Senior Investment Officer at the World Bank Group’s International Finance Corporation, Ruzgar Barisik said, “Israel is a very exciting place for us: market interest in a growing number of Israeli technologies makes this a very promising area we want to be part of.”

On the 60th anniversary celebration of the Israeli Foundation for Handicapped Children, please read how Israel gives hope to less fortunate members of society. Note its work with Down’s syndrome, spinal cord injuries, Alzheimer’s sufferers and the victims of Chernobyl.

The Indian government has invited leading Israeli water technology companies to take part in efforts to clean India’s most important river. A delegation of Indian research institutes, water technology companies and other relevant agencies will come to Israel to learn about the Israeli water and sewage purification technologies.

In semi-arid Eastern Sri Lanka, Singhalese, Tamil and Muslim populations struggle over meagre water resources. The head of Sarvodaya, the largest NGO in Sri Lanka, has come to Israel to learn about Friends of the Earth’s cross-border Good Water Neighbours project and Israeli Foreign Ministry’s Mashav program.

The United Nations has granted Israeli advertising company Baumann Ber Rivnay a gold medal for its campaign, Blood Relations. The campaign brought bereaved Israelis and Palestinians together for a blood drive. Blood donated from Israelis went to Palestinian patients and vice versa.

A young Arab woman arrived at the Binyamin IDF post with her 12-day-old baby, who was suffering from severe breathing difficulty. The IDF Home Front Command soldiers treated and stabilized the baby and then called an emergency ambulance to evacuate the infant to a nearby hospital in Ramallah. Over the past two weeks, paramedics at the post have treated three similar cases.