In return for free tuition and low rent, members of Ayalim student villages volunteer their time to transform Negev and Galilee communities.
It’s not just Haiti, in the wake of any kind of natural humanitarian disaster worldwide, an Israeli organization can be found saving lives, offering aid, and rebuilding torn communities. When a devastating earthquake hit Haiti recently, Israeli aid workers …
Israeli volunteers have opened a makeshift school in Port-au-Prince, providing education and counseling for 800 of the city’s traumatized children. As the earthquake-ravaged city of Port-au-Prince, Haiti struggles to cope with the devastation in the wake of the mass …
In the mixed Arab-Jewish city of Jaffa , the local community center seeks to create friendship and understanding, while meeting local needs. Some of the women who took part in a technology-training course developed by the Arab-Jewish Community Center …
Operation Respect teaches children to express their feelings and resolve conflicts creatively. It just launched in Israel, with the visit of its founder Peter Yarrow, of the folk trio Peter Paul and Mary. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYne2FXxrIs It’s Israel’s newest operation: respect. Operation …
A flagship incubator in Israel is helping to create coexistence while ensuring that Muslim and Christian Israeli Arabs develop expertise in biotech and the life sciences. Yosi Turkaspa (right) and Nasri Said (left) from New Generation Technology, a technology …
Just one day “at the circus” leads to remarkable changes in the way Israeli Jewish, Muslim and Christian high school students relate to each other. Let the games begin: Arab and Jewish children learn to touch and support each …
With anarchy growing, and the devastation vast, Israel vows to continue offering vital aid to earthquake-ravaged Haiti Photo by IDF spokesperson. The IDF Medical and Rescue team in Port-au-Prince rescue a Haitian government worker who was trapped for 125 hours …
Just a day following the devastating earthquake in Haiti, 220 Israelis, comprising teams of doctors and rescue and relief workers, are already on their way. Photo courtesy of the IDF Spokesperson Unit. Col. Doc. Itzik Kryse, head of the …
First the Israelis held the record. Then the Lebanese. Now Israeli Arab and Jewish chefs are working together to win back the Guinness Record for the largest plate of hummus in the world. In May 2008, Israeli hummus manufacturer …
Whether they portrayed life-saving surgery on a Gaza infant, a kibbutz that went solar or a dance for elderly women, our videos touched and informed viewers throughout 2009, revealing a very different side of life in Israel. At the …
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