Israel Active

At 1am a cab bearing a dying Palestinian Arab and his family stopped at the gates of the Halamish military base in Judea and Samaria and called for help. Lt. Kim Ben Tikva and Sgt. Sharon Grisaro started intensive CPR and after 15 minutes the man began breathing and regained his pulse. He is now at the Rabin Medical Hospital and his condition is stable.

Israel delivered 1094 trucks, 32,271 tons of food, clothing, electrical products, raw materials, medicines, aid through the crossings into Gaza last week.

(Thanks to NoCamels) “Heartbeat Jerusalem” is a hip-hop band founded in 2007, to create a space for young Palestinian Arab and Israeli musicians to work together.

The Jerusalem municipality gave out free fir trees at the Jaffa gate to the Old City.

Hundreds of Israelis are donating their hair to the campaign run cancer charity Zichron Menachem.

Israel has installed a huge greenhouse in Licab, Philippines, where the recent typhoons wiped out local farmers’ crops. The state-of-the-art structure includes a mist irrigation system and can produce 20,000 vegetable seedlings per batch.

Israel and Turkey have re-established military relations between its air forces that were suspended following Operation Cast Lead and the Gaza flotilla incident.

Some 140 Israeli Arabs have been trained as hi-tech engineers and are working at Galil Software, a company in Nazareth – providing the country with urgently needed sophisticated manpower, instead of outsourcing to engineers in India and Eastern Europe.

In episode 5 of the series IS.REAL about real Israelis, tour guide Yair Tayar visits his Arab friend Hamza at his home in East Jerusalem. They plan to go into business together.

Students from a pre-Army Torah academy in Judea and Samaria are on a mission to literally clean up the image of nationalists, marred in recent vandalism by 50 extremist youths. Please publicise this, as mainstream media have ignored the campaign.