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Israeli charity Yad Eliezer has set up a new Crowdfunding site where you can directly support campaigns to save individual lives.  Contributions are tax-deductible for US tax payers.

During the traumatic task of clearing up after a multi-vehicle accident, Yisroel Fischer saw one of the body bags move – a baby girl had come back to life.  Years later, Yisroel, a volunteer driver for Ezer Mizion, transported a mother and daughter.  He then realized that the baby he had saved was now the young girl in the back of his car.

Nadim is a Palestinian Arab. Ariel is an Israeli/American Jew.  Nadim speaks only Arabic.  Ariel speaks English and Hebrew.  These two boys communicate as only little kids can. Ariel and Nadim chase each other in their wheelchairs, play table basketball together, and just laugh.

Two religious Jewish boys in Jerusalem heard a blind Arab man say he didn’t have enough money to buy his medicine.  So they played their guitars and raised the required 70 shekels.  They then went to the pharmacy and bought him his medicine.

If you missed New York’s latest annual parade on Jerusalem Day to celebrate Israel’s 68th birthday, here is a 3-hour video featuring some of the thousands of participants in the event.

Israeli cancer charity Ezer Mizion hosted its annual Golf and Tennis Tournament to benefit its International Bone Marrow Registry.  The attendees met Josh, who thanked Ezer Mizion for enabling his two young children to grow up with a father.  Josh then met his bone marrow donor Ran for the very first time.

Shellie Grafstein tells the dramatic story of how her house in Bet Shemesh went up in flames and all the miracles that saved their lives.

Ten Cuban-Jewish women visited Israel for their first time on a trip sponsored by the Jewish Women’s Renaissance Project (JWRP) and Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs.  New life has recently been infused into Cuban Jewry, especially since the release of Alan Gross.

Asael Shabo barely survived the deadly Itamar 2002 terrorist attack that killed his mother and 3 brothers.  But thousands of fans cheered as Asael stepped out onto the court at half-time in the Israeli basketball semi-final between Hapoel Jerusalem and Hapoel Eilat to propose to his girlfriend, Saray Cohen.

Assaf Bar - one of the dozen injured in the deadly Sarona Market terrorist attack - clearly described events that evening when a gunman shot him twice in the head.