{image_1}In a joint statement read by US President George W. Bush at the start of the Annapolis peace summit, Israel Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas [Abu Mazen] pledged to start the first serious negotiations in seven years in December 2007.
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{image_1}When the SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) epidemic broke out in 2002, Israeli scientist Dorit Arad was alarmed. One of the problems with this disease was diagnosis, which was expensive, slow, and had a high rate of false positive results. What was needed was a new diagnostic tool that could let doctors diagnose potential pandemic illnesses on site, in minutes. Arad’s new breakthrough diagnostic tests for viral pandemics, and a range of other illnesses such as Cytomegalovirus (CMV), meningitis, influenza, and even the common cold, are now going through proof of concept and could be out on the market in 18 months.
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{image_1}Since the earliest of civilizations, rivers and springs have been so highly valued that they were often treated as deities. Water collected from these sources was used not only for ordinary hygiene, but also for ritualistic cleansing. Even modern-day religions, such as Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Hinduism, still use ritual hand and feet washings, as well as aspersions and full-body immersions. Since water often represents spiritual purification and new beginnings, these rituals are usually performed before prayers and during many life-cycle ceremonies related to birth, conversion, marriage, and death.
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{image_1}The first shipment of Russian fuel arrived for the Iranian nuclear reactor even as nations gathered in Paris to raise international support for the Palestinian Authority (PA).
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{image_1}Israel’s Arbel Medical hopes hopes that its IceSense technology will pave the way for simple cryotherapy, a method of surgery that uses extreme cold to kill diseased tissue. “At present there are no non-invasive treatments for benign breast lumps,” says Didier Toubia, CEO of the Yokneam-based company. IceSense offers the hope of efficient treatment in local clinics without the need for hospitalization, recuperation, or scarring.
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{image_1}The massive upsurge of people toward the cities creates severe humanitarian problems, as well as environmental issues. Severe overcrowding makes it difficult to provide suitable sanitation and places a strain on energy resources. The movement of workers toward city centers increases air pollution and disrupts the quality of life and health of the residents.
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{image_1}Shai Pinczewski is the founder and CEO of waste disposal company REN Waste, a state-of-the-art treatment plant that he claims can rid the world of municipal trash by transforming it into recycled material and electricity. Municipal waste is an environmental hazard that pollutes air, land and groundwater resources, causes health hazards, and costs world consumers billions of dollars a year. With REN Waste, garbage and sewage are bought to the plant, shredded, run through magnetic sorters, separated, and tipped into a bio-chemical oxidation chamber for seven days for aerobic digestion. After fermentation, a pyrolysis plant breaks down waste rubber, plastics and unfermentable organic matter. By the end of the process, the waste has been separated and segregated into component materials and concentrated to a high degree of purity.
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{image_1}MinistryWatch.com has named Bridges for Peace one of 30 “Shining Light” Christian ministries for 2007. MinistryWatch.com compiles an annual list of 30 ministries—from nearly 500 ministries—which demonstrated outstanding effectiveness and efficiency in their ministry and financial operations.
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{image_1}Tu’Bshvat is Israel’s Arbor Day, every year on the fifteenth of the Jewish month of Shvat, which falls this year on January 22. Though it is not a biblical holiday, it does have its roots in biblical law, as fruit had to be tithed according to its age, so a New Year for trees was created from which the age of all trees could be calculated.
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{image_1}Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) has told peace-talk negotiators that Jerusalem will be the capital of the proposed new Palestinian state. Protests have not been as loud or demonstrative as many might have expected.
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{image_1}Cranes have become familiar guests at Hula Lake. During Israel’s autumn and winter months (October to March), there is an average of 10,000–30,000 cranes at the lake every day. Recently, a new daily record was set at Hula Lake—41,600 cranes in one day, as compared to last year’s record of 32,000, a 30% increase! They migrate from Europe to Africa and back, passing through the Hula on their way. Their habitat is primarily swamp areas and quicksand.
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{image_1}Can water resources unite Jordanians, Israelis, and Palestinians?
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