Israel Active

Obvious really, but this latest report from the Bank of Israel really emphasises how the Palestinian Arab leadership failed its people by the violent outbreak in 2000.

The Civil Administration, part of the IDF, is working with the Palestinian Authority to launch environmental projects and raises awareness in Judea and Samaria.

KKL funded Arava Research and Development and Britain’s The Portland Trust are setting up a program, with the Ramallah and Gaza based firm Harvest Export, for Palestinian Arab agricultural students to learn from Israeli experts how to grow products in sandy and saline water conditions.

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.