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In the seven days to 11th February, 921 trucks carrying 22,916.5 tons of goods entered the Gaza Strip from Israel through land crossings. 300 medical patients and accompanying individuals crossed from the Gaza Strip into Israel and Judea and Samaria. They included premature triplets.

The Jewish State is the only place in the Middle East where all religions are free to practice their beliefs. Here, you can watch a series of videos showing Muslims, Christians, Druze, Ahmadiyya, Bahai, Samaritans, Circassians and Jews all living in peace. Or just select any one of them.

800 Turkish students and 500 other civilians left homeless by the Turkish earthquake will be accommodated in 130 mobile and residential buildings by the end of March. "You are true allies”, said Ahmet Kazankiya – vice governor of the Van province.

The Embassy of Israel in South Africa is running agriculture courses in Bloemfontein and Stellenbosch and Mashav, having run a 10 day course in South Africa are now offering a 25-day course on aquaculture for South African fish farmers in Rehovot Israel. Warning Chile about tsunamis. The Israeli company eVigilo, recently completed installing a warning system in Chile, which will alert Chileans of approaching tsunamis directly to their cellphones. Frequent earthquakes plague Chile, with the one in February 2010 triggering a devastating tsunami.

(Thanks to Stuart Palmer) When Aya Almasal, 12, left her Gaza home approximately one month ago and headed for Rambam hospital in Haifa, she didn’t know that this trip would save her life. For several years Aya had suffered from sudden bouts of unconsciousness, and her doctors couldn’t find the cause. Please read on….

Despite continuing indiscriminate rocket attacks from Gaza, the Israeli government is bending over backwards to help ordinary Gazan farmers. Israeli authorities allowed tomatoes to be exported from the Gaza Strip to Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Israeli laboratories even ensured that the tomatoes met the international standardization.

A lone soldier is someone who has come to Israel on his or her own, deliberately to join the Israel Defense Forces. There are about 5000 Jewish lone soldiers in the IDF. Last week, Fadi Abad Alhallik from Brazil became the first Druze lone soldier when he returned to the land of his birth and joined up.

Israel’s Public Utility Authority has issued the first license for a solar power facility on Arab Beduin land, approving the Tarabin family’s application to build an 8-megawatt photovoltaic field on their property in the Abu Basma region in the northwestern Negev.

Tel Aviv Municipality has supplied 30,000 seedlings to community gardens, schools and other institutions On Tu Bishvat itself, the city will also distribute 18,000 saplings and 2,000 perennial plants to schools and kindergarten children.

US Ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro visited Kibbutz Sasa in northern Galilee, home to Israel’s Plasan factory. Plasan’s advanced technologies are used in the majority of the US military's armoured vehicles and have saved countless American soldiers' lives in Iraq and Afghanistan.