Israel Active

Around 15,000 people attended “Israel Today and Tomorrow” at the Brongniart Palace in Paris. The event featured exhibitions on Zionism, agriculture, high tech, culture, art, medicine, natural resources, tourism, history and a concert by Israeli singer David Broza.

A study carried out by the Israeli Ministry of Agriculture found that the cost of fruits and vegetables in Israel are lower - sometimes significantly lower - compared to prices of fruits and vegetables in the United States and Western European countries including France, Germany and Britain.

Two different women named Hannah Cohen both gave birth to twins in the same hospital on the same day at Mayanei Hayeshua Medical Center in Bnei Brak. The maternity ward staff admitted the two expectant mothers to different floors of the hospital in order to avoid mixing up the babies. In the end, they didn’t really need to go to all that trouble. One mother gave birth to two boys and the other to two girls.

Israel is establishing a museum within the Armored Corps Memorial at Latrun to honor the memories of all Jewish soldiers who fought and died in the Second World War.

Jews don’t need Valentines Day to bring them together. The Jewish State has a far stronger influence. These couples met on programs with Alexander Muss High School in Israel.

Christian readers of Israel Today have teamed up with local charities to provide after school activities for children of single-parent or dysfunctional families that cannot provide for all their needs. They even provided a place to sleep, for the most needy kids in the Jerusalem neighbourhood of Gilo.

Israeli officials are to install seismic monitoring systems to help protect the Jewish State’s most important ancient treasures from earthquakes. Previously, the focus has been to retrofit existing schools, hospitals and apartment buildings, but now key historical sites are to be surveyed.

A new 7 min documentary featuring Jewish families who lived in Jerusalem’s Old City for generations, but were evicted by the Arab Legion in 1948 after the State of Israel was declared. They returned home 19 years later in 1967 after Israeli forces liberated the Old City during the Six Day War.

Twelve Holocaust survivors, five men and seven women, celebrated a joint bar mitzvah and bat mitzvah ceremony in Haifa, which they were unable to mark during their youth. “At the age of 13 I was in Auschwitz," one of them said. "There wasn't really anyone to talk to about celebrations."