Israel Active

We send our best wishes to AFASI – a new organisation to support Israel.

Palestinian Arab and Israeli parents, who have lost children through the conflict, came together to donate blood to each other’s hospitals as part of their activities marking International Peace Day.

It’s October again so that means its Oktoberfest at the Christian Arab town of Taybeh, just outside of Ramallah. Barely any security was visible and definitely not needed.

Jewish teenagers from Jerusalem joined with Arab Muslims and Christians from Nazareth in a successful dialogue project over 10 months. The students toured Nazareth and Jerusalem, learning more about each city and the diverse cultures and traditions that define the country.

The Jerusalem municipality opened a new Infant Care Centre in the mainly Arab-populated Shiloach (Silwan) section of Israel’s capital city.

The parents of Maiken Kaita have also been allowed to stay in Israel after determining it would be too dangerous for the albino child to return to Ivory Coast where albinism is a stigma.

Many of the thousands of Sudanese refugees entering Israel illegally each month aren’t fleeing war and oppression in their homeland but life in Egypt.

Bnei Akiva’s Shevet Yuval program has brought special needs students from Australia to visit the Jewish State. The program treats every participant as an individual and as an equal.

Anti-terrorism support, innovative defense systems, microchip design, medical technology; Israel is a strategic asset for the United States.

In Israel all three main TV networks broadcast Abbas’s speech to the UN in full without interruption. In Ramallah, Palestinian Authority TV turned the cameras off the moment that Netanyahu took to the podium.