Israel Active

(Thanks to Israel21c) Israel celebrated Earth Day with the world’s first full-length movie screening, powered by solar energy, sponsored by Energiya Global. In Jerusalem the lights were turned off, to highlight the need to save energy – but not until after the opening of the Cool Globes exhibition.

This is the video “The Spring of Judea and Samaria”.

39-year-old Jorgen Nilsson left his home in Sweden six months ago on a 4,500-kilometer (2,800-mile) pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Jorgen, a knight in the Hospitaller Order of St. Lazarus, arrived just in time for the first International Jerusalem Symposium on Green and Accessible Pilgrimage.

According to the OECD, Israel’s population has the second highest percentage of college degrees in the world (46%). Only Canada (51%) has more. The OECD average is 31%.

Absorption Minister Sofa Landver greeted new immigrants who have made Aliya without their parents and will join the IDF as “lone soldiers” immediately after Independence Day. “These young men and women help guarantee the continued existence of the State of Israel,” she said.

The Jewish State is more than just another country.

(Thanks to todaysCLIC.com) Nice piece in the Montreal Gazette by Joel Lion.

(Thanks to 12Tribe Films) Asael Lubotzsky was so badly injured by a Hezbollah rocket in 2006 that his leg was hanging by a thread. Now he is an Israeli doctor and has a daughter. “We called our daughter Neta, a sapling in Hebrew, because “as much as they tried to uproot me, I am planting”.

I don’t know how I missed out this video from last week’s newsletter.

Using 740 gallons of paint, Roni Pilo has painted a gigantic flag, almost an acre in size, on an Eilat hanger. The flag, painted in time for Israeli Independence Day, can be seen clearly from the Jordanian shore and cities across from the Gulf.