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Shadi Khalloul writes that Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Christians and other minorities grow in freedom and safety with full democratic rights. Christians fill all types of high positions including a Supreme Court Judge, Salim Jubran – a Maronite Christian.

The Kadima Fund, a bottom-up online resource center for grass roots pro-Israel initiatives, has just been launched.  It will offer advice, materials, contacts, professional resources, financial assistance, and more, to pro-Israel Activists in local, grassroots initiatives.  Could it help me?

On a small farm 43 miles east of Vancouver, British Columbia, Jenna and Gil Lewinsky, an Israeli husband and wife, are raising around 130 Jacob sheep - mentioned in Genesis. The Lewinskys plan to take the sheep to Israel this year on a specially fitted plane.

Israel’s Ashley Perry - President of Reconectar - describes the vital project that reconnects descendants of forced converts of Spanish and Portuguese Jewish communities (Bnei Anusim) with the Jewish people and the Jewish State.

Israel has completed a secret operation to rescue 19 of Yemen's last remaining Jews.  They included head of the Raida community, Rabbi Dahari, who also brought a Torah scroll dating back to the fifteen or sixteenth century.  “I am so excited to reach the land of our forefathers,” he said.

In honor of of Zidan Seif, the brave Israeli-Druze policeman who gave his life stopping the Nov 2014 massacre at Jerusalem’s Har Nof synagogue, Rabbi Yaakov Kermaier has brought Jews and Druze together for Jethro’s Shabbat, when Jews read the Torah portion of the Druze founder.

This Jewish wedding song Likrat Kala was written and sung by Shlomo Broner and Orchestra. It was filmed on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea and includes gorgeous footage of the Israeli coast.

Like many synagogues around the world, the Young Israel of Teaneck New Jersey has led a community-wide initiative to include Israeli products in its Mishloach Manot (Purim parcels) that it distributes to families this Purim.  It said “Buycott Israel” is the ideal response to BDS.

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German Nazi hunter Beate Klarsfeld, 77, who is non-Jewish, has been granted Israeli citizenship.  Interior Minister Aryeh Deri said at the ceremony, “You are a hero who has dedicated her life to the Jewish people.”  Beate’s husband Serge and son Arno already hold Israeli citizenship.