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(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.

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.