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Radio RADISIN, a private Farsi-language radio station based in Tel Aviv, airs Iranian music, poetry and current affairs shows aiming to spread peace between the Israeli and Iranian people - regardless of who is in power in Tehran.

In this video ex-Syrian Army officer Abu Bilal speaks by phone with Israel’s Deputy Minister for Development of the Negev and the Galilee Ayub Kara and requests that Israel provides support to the forces fighting Basher Assad’s brutal crackdown.

Reading around the usual Ha’aretz negativity, this article highlights Israelis who have succeeded despite harsh backgrounds. It also shows that the army is a social leveller as well as the source of skills vital to the future success of the individual.

(Thanks to Roni Hassid) A group of Chinese dairy farmers and dairy experts have just completed an advanced study program in Israel. The trainees learned how to use advanced technologies to increase milk production. The 3 month training program was managed by experts from Israel’s Afimilk in cooperation with the Galilee College. All the training material was translated into Chinese.

A new underground sewage pipeline now connects Nofim, Yakir, Etz Ephraim, Sha’arei Tikva and soon Ma’aleh Shomron, bringing all of their effluent to a treatment facility in Eliyahu. But for political reasons, the PA has refused to connect Palestinian Arab villages to the system.

Eli Beer founder of Israeli rescue service United Hatzalah has been speaking to global business leaders at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland – while al-Jazeera’s documentary about Hatzalah has been simultaneously wowing Arabs worldwide.

Oren Almog lost five members of his family as well his eyesight in the 2003 Maxim Restaurant suicide bombing in Haifa, where 21 people were killed and 51 were wounded. Nine years after the atrocity, Oren walked up to the ceremonial stage unassisted by either a walking cane or a seeing-eye dog, and swore an oath to the IDF to the applause and the tears of everyone in attendance.

Obvious really, but this latest report from the Bank of Israel really emphasises how the Palestinian Arab leadership failed its people by the violent outbreak in 2000.

The Civil Administration, part of the IDF, is working with the Palestinian Authority to launch environmental projects and raises awareness in Judea and Samaria.

KKL funded Arava Research and Development and Britain’s The Portland Trust are setting up a program, with the Ramallah and Gaza based firm Harvest Export, for Palestinian Arab agricultural students to learn from Israeli experts how to grow products in sandy and saline water conditions.