Members of the Dream Doctors Project entertain children in Addis Ababa.A program launched by an Israeli medical infectious disease specialist has succeeded in decreasing the fatalities among Ethiopian children infected with the HIV/AIDS virus. The program involves treating the children …
Social Action
Israeli college students fortify troubled towns by moving in
In return for free tuition and low rent, members of Ayalim student villages volunteer their time to transform Negev and Galilee communities.
NASA astronauts bond with Israeli students
Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert receives a picture collage in Jerusalem from NASA astronaut Eileen Collins. (GPO)It was a meeting of the minds this week in Israel. Three US National Aeronautics and Space Administration astronauts talked shop with high-achieving students …
Israeli rescue team saves survivors of Kenya building collapse
An IDF rescue worker walks amid the rubble with a search dog.Israeli officials rushed a rescue team to Kenya in order to offer emergency assistance after a building in Nairobi collapsed on Monday. The team, which includes highly trained members …
Bringing a common language into the headlines
The cover of ‘Du-Et’ – “We don’t present one policy view. Our writers and readers come from all sections of Israeli society – Christian, Muslim, and Jewish, religious and secular.’The goal of the editors of Du-Et, Israel’s only newspaper written …
Young Israeli lawyer helps Rwandans find justice
Sigall Horovitz: I knew I wanted to make a difference.Sigall Horovitz certainly wasn’t looking for a cushy number when she set out to become a lawyer. Rather than head off for the more lucrative areas of litigation, such as divorce …
Israel helps to heal broken hearts at the lowest place on earth
Women who have lost loved ones to 9/11 heal their wounds at the Dead Sea.The bus rattled down the road out of Jerusalem towards the Dead Sea where for one day, Israelis and Americans would share their losses to terrorism …
National Guard trains in Israel
Lt. Gen. H. Steven Blum, chief of the National Guard Bureau, meets Israeli soldiers who were training in urban warfare techniques during their visit to the IDF’s National Center for Ground Training in the Negev. (Photo: Bob Haskell)National Guard leaders …
Israel leads worldwide AIDS awareness campaign
AIDS activists get ready for Thursday’s bell-ringing campaign.An ambitious idea aimed at raising awareness about AIDS education that originated in Israel will resonate around the world this week. Literally. On Thursday, December 1st – to mark World AIDS day – …
High-level dialogue strengthens US-Israel relationship
Former US president Bill Clinton and his wife, US Senator Hillary Clinton meet Israel’s President Moshe Katsav and his wife Gila.Over photographs of Sen. Hillary Clinton with her forehead pressed to the Western Wall, the headline of Israel’s highest-circulation newspaper …
Israel and Georgia create a peach of a business environment
Georgia’s governor Sonny Perdue views a demonstration of emergency evacuation equipment for hi-rise buildings developed by Israeli companies.The gift that an Israeli businesswoman handed to Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue last week reflected the warm relationship between Israel and Georgia: a …