Israelis give their hair to cancer victims
Hundreds of Israelis are donating their hair to the campaign run cancer charity Zichron Menachem.
Israel “seeds” Philippine farmers’ recovery
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.
Turkey and Israel are flying again
Israel and Turkey have re-established military relations between its air forces that were suspended following Operation Cast Lead and the Gaza flotilla incident.
Israel trains Arabs rather than outsourcing
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.
My friend Hamza
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.
Religious students clean up Mosques
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.
Religious Jews teach safety to Arab women
For the first time, volunteers from the religious ZAKA organization have run a course to teach Israeli Arab women about home safety, accident prevention and emergency care. The group intends to extend the program to 12 other Arab towns across Israel.
Israeli doctors treat wife of mastermind of Munich massacre
How bizarre - Abu Daoud’s terrorist gang murdered 11 Israeli Olympic athletes in 1972. Today, his wife is being treated in Tel Aviv’s Assuta Hospital. Her three daughters from Ramallah, Jordan and Syria have even been granted visas to visit her.
Rabbi, MA, PhD student, IDF elite officer and Ethiopian
Rabbi Sharon Shalom is Rav in Kiryat Gat. Born in Ethiopia he made aliyah in 1982. He served as an IDF infantry officer, has a B.Ed and an MA from Bar-Ilan University and is studying for his doctorate. He also teaches Ethiopian Jewish law and tradition at Bar Ilan.
Israel to send aid delegation to South Sudan
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir said, “I am very moved to be in Israel and to walk on the soil of the Promised Land, and with me are all South Sudanese people. Israel has always supported the South Sudanese people. Without you, we would not have arisen.” Israeli PM Netanyahu promised to help the development of the fledgling country.