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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.

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.

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.

“For the very first time you heard an agreement between an Israeli and a Palestinian minister,” Gidon Bromberg, Israeli director of Friends of the Earth Middle East, told The Jerusalem Post after the opening session of the first-ever Ashdod Sustainability Conference