Israel Active

Corporal Daniella Stepanoe is an IDF weapons instructor, and travels from base to base training everyone from paratroopers to elite Special Forces units in the use of their weapons.

Miriam Yassin, 60, a resident of the Palestinian Arab village of Anin, was only 15 when she was injured in the six-day war. Hezi Erez, now 75, was an IDF junior commander and dropped everything to take the girl to the hospital. Miriam said, “I always tell my children about how I was injured, and about the Jewish man who saved me."

Famous Israeli chef Shaul Ben Aderet embarked on a 24-hour visit to Istanbul in order to cook live on Turkish TV. Aderet said, “Good food created a bridge between cultures and reconciliation to overcome anger.”

Little is heard about the Lappi minority of Northern Norway who are asserting their rights to their own language and culture. A delegation of the Lappi minority living in northern Norway will arrive in Israel next month for a first-of-its-kind visit in a bid to learn from the Israeli experience of reviving the Hebrew language and passing it on to the younger generation.

This new film clip contains the truth about the treatment of Palestinian Arabs.

Following President Shimon Peres' visit to Vietnam, seven hundred trainees will join the 300 agricultural students on an 11-month work-study program in Ramat Negev and the central Arava.

Every year, hundreds of Israelis and Diaspora Jews join Tevel b’Tzedek’s programs to help impoverished communities around the world. Read what they are currently doing in Nepal and watch the video clip to see how the local population regard their friends from the Jewish State.

So stated UK’s Minister for the Middle East at the Bar Ilan University in Tel Aviv on Jan 10th 2012 (not 2011 as stated on the video). Israel is helping the world solve its problems – from the economy to climate change, as an anchor of regional stability and for its values of tolerance and justice.

The government of Israel has approved a plan to provide free education to children aged 3-4. The plan will also apply to all Israel’s minorities, despite demands to omit families of those who haven’t performed national service. Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz (Likud) responded that the benefits were "for all children, regardless of who their parents are and what they do."

One of the many individuals helped by Yad Sarah was 24-year old Odelia Lavie of Bat Yam, who was taken by Yad Sarah van in her wheelchair to the hairdresser, makeup artist and bridal gown salon, and then to her wedding ceremony. Born with disability, Lavie has long been receiving the organization’s help. Her bridegroom became disabled in school when he was 17 and also uses a wheelchair.