Israel Active

Decorated for his service to Israel, Doron Horowitz flies here from Canada every year to join his Border Police unit.

Moshe Burnstein, 82, from Tiberias, has just celebrated his Bar Mitzvah at the Western Wall. In 1943, just before his 13th birthday, Burnstein, was taken to a concentration camp together with his family and was unable to celebrate the traditional rite of passage.

Have you seen the amazing film “Defiance” about the Bielski brothers who fought the Nazis and saved 1200 Jews? Well Zus Bielski’s grandson Elan is now a paratrooper in the Israeli army. He is a lone soldier and proud to carry on his grandfather’s legacy of saving innocent lives.

Shoshana Greenbaum was one of 15 people killed in the Sbarro suicide bombing 10 years ago. The official death toll did not include her unborn child, who was to be the Greenbaums’ first child. Her husband’s response was to establish a new website and a book on kindness.

Bank of Israel Governor Professor Stanley Fischer said that the days are over when Israelis visiting the USA brought back peanut butter, toilet paper and electronic equipment. Guess what I brought back from the UK on my last trip!

Five hundred young North American Jews will spend this year in Israel, participating in seminars to equip them to deal with increasing anti-Israel sentiment on U.S. college campuses.

The Jewish Agency is linking 200 Israeli schools via the Internet to 200 Jewish schools students in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Turkey, Russia, South Africa and Australia. Students will participate in virtual joint study sessions using large video screens in their classrooms.

Israeli archaeologists have uncovered remains of an ancient bathhouse dating to the Byzantine period during work being conducted on the modern water infrastructure near Moshav Tarum in the Judean coastal hills.

Bnei Akiva, the religious- Zionist youth movement, has launched a new “Hachshara” (training) program that allows young Diaspora Jews to spend 8 months in Israel rotating between MDA, the IDF and other organizations. 160 people are set to participate over the next seven months.

This new video, with musical-style accompaniment, features views of the site of Jerusalem’s original Jewish settlement, some 3000 years ago.