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Building an Ayalim alumni village in Sde Boker.
Israeli neonatologists save babies’ lives in Ghana [video]

Israeli neonatologists save babies’ lives in Ghana [video]

Israeli neonatologists provide the know-how for a cooperative effort to lower the mortality rate of newborns in Kumasi, Ghana’s second largest city. It’s Ghana’s second largest city – but Kumasi, with its population of 1.5 million people, has only one …

Israel answers Japan’s call for aid

Advanced medical personnel, as well as emergency supplies of gloves, blankets, coats and portable toilets, are quickly being sent to tsunami-hit areas. The Israeli team will assess what needs to be done in the tsunami-devastated region, before sending for more …

Chilean miners put their faith in Israel

“It is amazing to be here, in this place,” say the men, who were invited on a Pilgrimage of Thanks following their 68-day ordeal trapped underground. Miner Richard Godoy baptizing his baby son in the Jordan River. It was dubbed …

Israel offers a hand to Japan

As Japan reels from a deadly earthquake and tsunami, Israel’s government and trained volunteers are already on the way to help victims. A small team of Israeli aid workers are on their way to Japan to see in what ways …

It takes many arms to reach kids in need

‘We are an octopus,’ jokes one Jaffa Institute employee. ‘Whenever our founder hears of a problem, he extends another hand.’ Children at the Jaffa Institute’s after school activity centers don’t have to go home to an empty house. They receive …

Venture capital with a conscience

Dualis Social Venture Fund provides resources for ‘social businesses’ that aim to empower society’s underdogs through solid entrepreneurship. Photo by Dani Machlis, Ben-Gurion University. Manager of Ringelblum Café Noam Horovitz, left, with Allan (Chanoch) Barkat of Dualis at the Beersheva …