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Here is an inspiring video highlighting just a few of Israel’s great contributions to the world. Accompanied by the music of Roni Daloomi.

Following the birth of a Capuchin monkey last month, visitors to Ramat Gan Safari last week witnessed the birth of a baby giraffe. The labour was complicated and staff had to intervene when the baby’s legs had tangled around its neck. But within an hour, the calf was standing on its own next to its mother.

The frog is unique to Israel and was long thought extinct following the draining of the Hula valley in the 1950s. It highlights the success of recent environmental improvements at the Nature Reserve.

Six weeks after Asher Palmer and his son Yehonatan were murdered by local Palestinian Arab terrorists, Asher’s brother Shimon wants to “cross the wadi” and meet his Arab neighbours.

Rafi Peretz is Chief Rabbi of the Israel Defence Forces. He was one of Israel’s first religious Air Force pilots. At the lecture he delivered at Yeshiva University, he impressed many as an individual, a model soldier and a world class Torah scholar.

Yad Vashem’s holocaust database has been generating hundreds of emotional reunions of long-lost families. Although brothers Nahum and Yaakov Korenblum died 10 years ago, their descendents discovered each other after previous searching failed due to different spellings of their surname.

While sitting in an ethics seminar during IDF Special Forces training, Nadav Weinberg realized that the information he was learning was not common knowledge. Ever since that moment, Nadav has been determined to share what he has learned with people across the US, especially students.

The soldier said he served in the Iranian military and has Jewish roots. He claimed that his parents had become Muslims out of fear of the regime, but that his grandparents were Jewish and he sees himself as a Jew.

In 1969 Geoffrey Rogg met Israel’s first Prime Minister who asked him “when are you going to live in Eretz Yisrael?” 42 years later Geoffrey arrived at Ben Gurion airport on Aliya.

On the 73rd anniversary of the nazi’s Kristallnacht riots, Israel and Bavaria signed an education exchange agreement to teach the histories of Israel and Bavaria to each other's students.