Israel Active

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.

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.