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(Thanks to Israel21c) Four blogs depict the face of Israel rarely portrayed in the media: Humans of Tel Aviv, Humans of Israel, Humans of Safed and Humans of Jerusalem.

When a rare baby Asian elephant was born at Israel’s Ramat Gan Safari Park, La Belle (the mother) received some coaching in how to bring up junior from Bubba - her mother, La Petite.

The latest big winner of the Israeli lottery is determined to invest rather than waste his fortune. An unnamed soldier won first and second prize and will use the interest “to finance my university education.” He also promised to look after his parents and siblings.

In an attempt to enter Canada illegally, an Iranian family used stolen and falsified passports from the “Zionist entity”. They knew that Israelis do not require visas to enter the country, whereas Iranians required permits. But they didn’t fool Canadian officials.

Members of the IDF’s Tavor Battalion are prepared to save lives in the event of a large-scale disaster. The soldiers train to rescue civilians trapped under mounds of rubble. As one of the battalion commanders said, “Rescuing a person is like bringing a child into the world.”

A new Israeli TV station has gone on air. i24news, based in Jaffa, is the first TV channel dedicated to reporting international news from an Israeli point of view. It broadcasts World news (70%) and Israeli news (30%) in English, Arabic and French via satellite, cable and also LIVE on the Internet. Please visit

Pedang, a 14-year-old rare, male Sumatran tiger at Ramat Gan’s Safari Park, has stopped scratching his ear for the first time in years. Safari staff used FoamOtic - a new development by Otic Pharma in Rehovot – to insert anti-bacteria and anti-fungal medication into Pedang’s ear.

Participants on the Talglit Birthright trip to Israel are asked to register on the Jewish bone marrow database. As a result, 23-year-old Matthew Footerman from Houston, Texas donated bone marrow to save the life of 65-year-old Michael Weissner from New Jersey.

(Thanks to Israel21c) The People of the Book are so eager to read, that the Tel Aviv-Jaffa municipality has opened its first ever beach library, for tourists and locals alike. The books in the beach library are offered in five languages: English, Arabic, Russian, French and Hebrew.