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President Herzog welcomed Imams and Muslim community leaders from Senegal, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Benin, and Togo to Jerusalem. The delegation came to promote a message of peace, coexistence, and partnership between Muslims and Jews, and between Africa and Israel.

The Jordan Gateway Project would entail building a joint Israeli-Jordanian cross-border industrial park on a key node in the future India–Middle East–Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC). The park would include a hospital servicing seriously ill Jordanian patients.

Hundreds of Syrian Druze marched through Sweida - where radical Islamic terrorists once left a trail of slaughter - raising Israeli flags and photos of Israel’s Prime Minister. They were honoring the Jewish State, whose field hospitals and humanitarian aid helped their community survive.

The annual Eastern Jerusalem United Hatzalah event brought Arab and Jewish medics together, united by one mission: to save lives.

Ger Hassid Yehuda Sabiner grew up in Har Nof, Jerusalem. Long video but worth hearing him speak.

Seventy IDF  from the Hasmonean Brigade completed the IDF’s first Haredi squad commanders course after intensive nationwide training and combat experience in Gaza.

The Jewish National Fund (KKL-JNF) invited persons with disabilities to four accessible Israel hiking trails ahead of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities marked on Dec 3. Givat HaMoreh in the Jezreel, Jordan Park (North of the Kinneret), Martyrs’ Forest (West of Jerusalem), and the Arch Cave.

A video circulating online shows a powerful moment: Ba'ash Indursky, daughter of Shlomo Indursky of the Belz Hasidic community, enlisting in the Border Police, accompanied and embraced by her haredi father.

Mayors and municipal leaders from 15 countries gathered in Jerusalem for the 34th International Mayors Conference, organized by the American Jewish Congress (AJC) and the Israeli Foreign Ministry. Coming to Israel changed many of their perceptions.

King Norodom Sihamoni granted a royal audience to Alona Fisher-Kamm, the newly appointed Ambassador of Israel to Cambodia, marking the beginning of her diplomatic mission. Israel has long assisted Cambodia’s agriculture (see previously).