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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.

Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz and Indian Communication and Information Technology Minister Kapil Sibal met in New Delhi on Wednesday, and agreed to establish a joint program to bring 100 Indian post-doctoral students to Israeli universities.

Israeli and Italian Air Forces held a large-scale exercise in Southern Israel. In last week’s exercise Italy’s (and Europe’s) most advanced fighter jet the Eurofighter Typhoon participated in sorties alongside Israeli F-15 and F-16 fighters from bases all over the country.

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.

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.

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.