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The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) brought nearly 40 students from across the United States and Canada to participate in its second annual Student Leadership and Advocacy Training Conference.

A central location ensured the most prominent rally in Sweden for the past ten years. Organised by Annika Hernroth-Rothstein, it featured on IBA TV and radio Kol Yisrael and in most of the Israeli English and Hebrew press. However, the Swedish media seemed to want to keep it quiet.

For the first time in 150 years, the blades of the restored windmill in Yemin Moshe were turning once more. Although an electric motor replaces the wind as the source of power, the iconic machine will soon be grinding grain once more for the citizens of Israel’s capital city.

I found this lovely article on Israel National News. Go’el Jasper is so fed up of reading bad news that he is now writing about optimistic topics, and leaving the negative stuff aside. His first article describes the 10 wonders of the land of Israel. Maybe he was inspired by this newsletter?

Lily Hyde is believed to the oldest Australian ever to immigrate to Israel. Lily left the Sir Moses Montefiore Jewish Home in Sydney bound for Tel Aviv, where she will be reunited with her family. It’s a dream come true,” she said. “It will be comforting to have so many of my family by my side.”

A record two million Israeli children began the new school year last week. They included little Moshe Holtzberg who miraculously survived the Muslim terror attack on Mumbai’s Chabad Center four years ago. Moshe’s Indian nanny rescued Moshe before the terrorists discovered him.

(Thanks to Israel21c) Israel comes a healthy 6th in the Bloomberg list of the World’s Healthiest Countries. The top order is Singapore, Italy, Australia, Switzerland, Japan and then Israel. Bloomberg analysed average life expectancy, mortality, pollution and other factors.

Moshe Gerlenter arrived with his four sons and grandson Elad at the Magen David Adom Blood Center at Tel Hashomer. Elad is now 17 years old and was able to donate for the first time. Grandfather Moshe has donated 275 pints since 1973 and received a citation in 2006 when he gave his 200th pint.

Nobel Prize winner for Economics, Yisrael Aumann, is scheduled to teach Jerusalem high school students in the upcoming school year. The 82-year old Hebrew University professor will teach game theory to students from all over the capital in the new pilot program.

Sixty students representing 25 countries took part in the Student Conference on International Law (SCIL), at the Hebrew University’s Law Faculty. The theme for this year’s conference addressed Israel’s legal challenges, turning theory to practice.