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When a kidney became available following the death of a 38 year-old Israeli, surgeons at Hadassah hospital transplanted it into Bethlehem teenager Walid Daadua.

In a gesture of solidarity, Mustafa Salim, 35, an Arab Israeli resident of the northern village of Muqaibla did not shave or cut his hair for more than five years until Gilad Schalit was released from captivity. “I am very proud of what I did and of the State of Israel. Such a kidnapping is not courageous and is not based on the culture of Islam."

Don’t let Hamas kid you. Prison conditions for the hundreds of Palestinian Arab terrorists just released were a whole lot better than those for kidnapped Israeli Gilad Schalit. Click for the facts.

Chinese universities have launched their first-ever Israel Studies program. Yaakov Kirschen (better known as the pro-Israel author of the cartoon series “Dry Bones”) is to be the keynote speaker at the inaugural event and will give lectures at universities in Shanghai, Beijing, Henan and Chongqing.

An IDF patrol provided emergency medical treatment to two Palestinian Arab workers who fell three floors in a PA administered town southwest of Hebron.

Israel’s exchange of 1027 Arab terrorists for Gilad Schalit has impressed many Arab users of the Internet’s Twitter communication system.

Haneen Hajo and Leonid Feldman met the brother of German journalist Antonia Boegner who died in a car accident in Israel. Hajo received Antonia’s lungs and Feldman, her liver.

The sustainable development course run by MASHAV has attracted NGO leaders from Angola, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cameroon, China, India, Kenya, Kyrgzystan, Moldova, Nepal, Nigeria, Peru, the Philippines, Russia, Rwanda, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Thailand, Ukraine and Zambia.

Five international mass-bloggers went on an 11-day trip to Israel. Their two million readers are now seeing a different story about the Jewish State than the one they are used to hearing.

The new Philippine Ambassador to Israel was so proud of Israel’s first woman prime minister that 26 years ago he gave her name to his baby daughter. "I wanted my daughter to be a good strong woman who will know how to face this world” said Ambassador Generoso Calonge.