Israel Active

Former pro-basketball player Jared Armstrong has founded the JAB Resilience tour to build and renovate basketball courts in Israeli communities affected by the conflict.  They include Ashkelon, Dimona, Sderot, Kibbutz Zikim, Ofakim, Herzliya, and Majdal Shams.

A 7-year-old girl from Arad, critically injured during an Iranian missile attack,  has been discharged from Petah Tikva’s Schneider Children’s Medical Center. It was “a complex, multi-system injury with immediate life-threatening consequences,” said Dr. Michael Gurvitz, who operated on the girl.

Israel’s Na’aleh Therapy Farm pairs traumatized soldiers and at-risk youth with rescued abused animals, creating a powerful mutual healing environment where the wounded help heal the wounded.

Israel’s Magos Systems has secured a NIS 21 million deal for hundreds of its radar-based drone detection systems that are expected to significantly improve detection of Hezbollah's fiber-optic drones. The system has successfully passed stringent tests by global and Israeli customers.

Boris Shtunda, an IDF soldier who lost his leg in Gaza and endured 19 surgeries, defied every obstacle to complete the Half Ironman triathlon in Valencia, Spain.

Eyal Cohen was severely wounded by an explosive device and declared to have no pulse. A  rare and desperate medical procedure brought him back from the brink. Eyal shares his journey of pain, business survival, and the road back to fatherhood.

The Iranian regime built a vast network of surveillance cameras to control dissent – tens of thousands of CCTV cameras in Teheran alone. On Feb 28 2026, Israel hacked into the system and turned it into a tool to target the oppressors.

The National Library of Israel has uncovered a rare handwritten Passover Haggadah published in the 1880s. It contains a Judeo-Persian poem dedicated to Lady Judith Montefiore (1784-1862). The manuscript includes instructions in Judeo-Persian for conducting the Seder.

Reminder – Marina Shear, wife of Newsletter subscriber Glen, can help any reader wishing to make Aliyah or purchase a property in Israel.  She has teams of English-speaking lawyers, mortgage brokers, builders, property managers, inspectors and designers. Read her guide and see her website for more details.

Israeli philanthropist Sylvan Adams has given $100 million dollars each to Soroka Hospital and to Ben Gurion University. He plans for his money to make the Negev attractive to the many millions of new Olim expected to arrive in the next few years.