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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.

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.