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The Shanghai Ranking, is widely viewed as an authority in determining the quality of academic institutions. In its 2024 list, The Weizmann Institute was ranked in 69th place, Hebrew University in 81st place, and the Technion Institute in 85th place.

Nagham Haj Ali, 20, from Shefa-Amr in northern Israel has over 500,000 social media followers. She volunteers at Haifa’s Rambam Medical Center and tells everyone to do national service. President Herzog awarded her a certificate of excellence for fostering understanding between Jews and Muslims.

A photo essay on the IDF’s Bedouin battalion that operates in the desert terrain of Israel’s south. In addition to the Bedouin majority, the battalion also has Jewish, Arab Israeli, and Christian soldiers – a diversity that reflects its soldiers’ deep-rooted connection to the land they defend.

Jared Armstrong made Aliyah (eventually) from Philadelphia to Ashkelon. Following Oct 7, and subsequent Hamas rocket attacks, he converted his Jared Armstrong Basketball (JAB) CAMP non-profit to unite diverse children via basketball camps and clinics in Israel and the US.

Prof. Masad Barhoum, Christian Arab director of Galilee Medical Center, and Prof. Salman Zarka, Israeli Druze director of Ziv Medical Center in Safed, describe how their staff of Jews, Christians, Muslims, Circassians, Druze, and Bedouins work as a family to save victims of Hezbollah.

Researchers at Israel’s Reichmann University report that the average annual income from labor among Israeli Arabs has grown at a faster pace than that of Haredi and non-religious Israelis. The study suggests more employment of Arab women, better education, and higher wages.

Some UK politicians want to ban arms sales to Israel. Meanwhile, the British armed forces have paid nearly £4.6 million to buy the 500 Smash counter-unmanned aircraft system rifle add-ons from Israel’s Smart Shooter to improve precision against attack drones.

Nearly a thousand Christians from 45 nations expressed their support for Israel’s biblical connection to the Holy Land in a decree presented to the International Court of Justice in The Hague ahead of its majority ruling that Israelis are “occupiers” in their own homeland.

Major Ella Waweya, is the IDF’s spokesperson to the Arab world and the IDF's top Muslim woman. The walls of her office display diplomas, certificates of merit, family pictures, Arabic calligraphy of the Quran, a Druze flag, a cross, a small copy of the Zohar, and flags of Abraham Accords states.

Two Arab Israeli women, Khouloud Ayuti and Saja Kabaha, spoke to CTech about Seeratech - the first women-led Arabic podcast about Arab tech leaders in Israel which they co-host.