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Israel’s MASHAV Centre for International Co-operation has introduced drip irrigation to 700 farming families in Senegal. It means farmers can produce three crops a year instead of one.

Israel’s MASHAV has sent 360kg of medical supplies to Nairobi, to help treat casualties of the recent fuel-line explosion that killed more than a hundred people injured hundreds more.

Ghana and Israel have renewed their diplomatic relations some 38 years after mutual ties were severed, with the Israeli Embassy in Accra officially reopening last week.

Thirty-two Nigerian ex-militants were sent to the Galilee Institute in Israel, for a six months vocational program. They will attend a comprehensive course on agricultural skills, learning how to start agricultural farms and agricultural businesses.

Five of the world’s top bloggers, with a total of two million hits a month, were invited to Israel’s Technion. Watch this video, where they see and hear about Israel’s achievements at first hand.

The first female bomb disposal specialist Inbal Gawi joined the Israel Police on Monday, after completing a gruelling 10-month training programme.

With the election of Shelly Yachimovich as the leader of the Labor party, women, now lead both the Labor party and Kadima.

22 new immigrants with disabilities have completed a new intensive Hebrew study program and made their transition into Israeli society.

Voices rose up into the night like a prayer at the Arab-Jewish Community Centre in Jaffa. The free concert included Israeli youth ensembles Bat Kol and the Voices of Peace Choir.

The Freddie Krivine Foundation has built over a dozen tennis courts in Arab-Israeli cities like Nazareth. It has subsidized tennis lessons for about 6,000 young Israeli Arabs, including Bedouin Ruan Zubidate, who travels to tennis matches around the world representing Israel.