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Israel: World’s 6th Healthiest Country

{image_1}Israeli breakfasts—eggs, salad, cheeses, juice—are known for their freshness and nutrition. According to a new report, it would seem that by starting the day on a healthy kick, Israelis tend to veer toward a strong lifestyle.

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A Celebration of Water Technology

{image_1}This summer, Tel Aviv celebrated a “water war” in which participants were invited to come to the fountain area in front of city hall and let out their frustrations or pent-up emotions by being drenched from head to toe by a variety of water guns, buckets, and almost any other type of water container. The water in the fountain is, according to the municipality, not fit for drinking. This fact was meant to assuage the critics who say that the water extravaganza was a waste of precious water resources.

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Japan Seeks Clean-tech Experts

{image_1}Japan is seeking Israeli experts to help in the rehabilitation efforts of Fukushima. The city was destroyed last year following a strong earthquake that triggered a massive tsunami, which, in turn, caused a local nuclear reactor meltdown. The Japanese company heading the rehabilitation efforts has sent a delegation to confer with Israeli experts and look for local entrepreneurs willing to take on the daunting task.

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South African Christians Stand Up for Israel

{image_1}Twenty-five hundred Christians from all parts of the Church took to the streets of Pretoria and Cape Town in support of Israel. Memorandums relating to the announcement that special labeling would be required for products from “the Occupied Palestinian Territories” were given to the offices of the Department of Trade and Industry in Pretoria.

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Lighting Up Jerusalem

{image_1}Crowds descended on Jerusalem’s Old City for the third annual eight-day Festival of Light in June. This year, the festival was even larger than previous years and included ten international artists who displayed their best artistic work in the field. Light was used to create statues, live performances, and truly elaborate artwork. Standing just outside the Jaffa Gate was a massive cupola. The 82-foot-high (25-meter) domed structure by Italy’s Luminarie De Cagna was magical, as 63,000 electric candles came alive with tiny points of colored light.

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Netanyahu Forms Huge Coalition

{image_1}Israelis woke up on the morning of May 8th to find that during the night a deal had been struck between Prime Minister Netanyahu's Likud party and Shaul Mofaz's Kadima block in the Knesset [Israeli Parliament]. It means that the new coalition has a guaranteed 94 seats in the Knesset's 120-seat forum. The nation was shocked and conversation was dominated by political analysis.

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Majority of Israeli Arabs Prefer Israel

{image_1}The vast majority of Israeli Arabs are reconciled to the existence of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state and even exhibit a degree of patriotism, according to a poll released in June. The survey by Haifa University found that nearly seven in ten (68.3%) preferred to live in Israel than anywhere else, even a future Palestinian state. It found that 57.7% are reconciled to Israel as a Jewish democratic state whose day of rest is the Sabbath on Saturday and Hebrew is the main language.

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African Wild Ass Born in Israel

August 14, 2012

{image_1}Once again the Ramat Gan Safari Park has participated in the preservation of one of the world's most endangered species. The African wild ass is found in the wild only in Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, and the immediate region. It is thought that there are only about 570 individual animals in the wild all together. There is no present danger of extinction, but the wild species is listed as critically endangered. Early in June, a female wild ass, with its distinctive leg markings, was born at the Ramat Gan Safari Park near Tel Aviv.

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Nir Barkat’s Icebox

{image_1}Jerusalem is not about to bow to geography or the elements. Mayor Nir Barkat contracted eight Chinese sculptors to create replicas of Jerusalem landmarks such as Jaffa Gate and the walls of the Old City. (Who needs facsimiles when the originals are literally set in stone a stone's-throw away?) The sculpture exhibit—that also boasts a Lion of Judah, and{image_2} Noah's Ark and classic Israeli children's fables among others—was all sculpted in ice.

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A Lonely Solider Finds a Home

{image_1}What's the first thing a young American who decides to leave everything to join the Israel Defense Forces [IDF] do? He posts about it on Facebook. Sergeant Daniel Schachter, a soldier in the Paratrooper 101st battalion, found a family to adopt him through Facebook.

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