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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.

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.