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Jewish Agency, JNF provide emergency funds to those affected by Israel wildfires
All night, battling flames, the firefighters here in Israel are not just protecting a home,” said Jewish National Fund CEO Russell Robinson. “They’re protecting our home.”
While people are feeling “loss and shock,” Feigie Troupiansky, who grew up on the moshav, noted that the amount of aid that is being brought is “beautiful.”
They also had the chance to hear from experts about understanding mortgages and choosing the right community for their needs.
Even though they sit on the front lines of riots and rocket attacks (and some very sandy driveways), the communities in southern Israel along the border with Gaza are experiencing economic growth that is double that of the rest of the country.
Israeli education village for global Jewry gets off the ground in Beersheva
The 16-acre site of the new JNF Israel Education and Technology Center will offer dormitories, apartments, a dining hall, restaurant, synagogue, conference center, classrooms and community rooms.
At the Nefesh B’Nefesh “Mega Event” in New Jersey, Keren Kayemet LeIsrael/Jewish National Fund chair Daniel Atar said “there is no reason why Jews from France and Belgium should move to Canada and not to Israel. If Israel worked enough, everyone would come to it.”
Setting up shop in Israel’s north is the Beit Asher Food-Tech Quarter, a food startup and innovation center; and the Jewish National Fund International Institute of Culinary Arts.
The Jewish National Fund was left scrambling to apologize to the son of a former Japanese diplomat who saved the lives of approximately 6,000 Jews during the Holocaust, after a memorial grove of trees planted in his honor was flattened to make way for apartment buildings.
With sprawling green lawns and water features surrounded by spectacular views of the Israeli desert, ALEH Negev’s 25-acre village looks more like a retreat center or resort.
The Palestinian Authority is stepping up its efforts to seize control of the strategic area of Nahal Heletz, a valley that runs between Jerusalem and Gush Etzion.
At risk, according to the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel, are the Greater Egyptian gerbil, Greater Egyptian jerboa and the Anderson’s gerbil, as well as reptiles such as the Desert monitor and Wedge-snouted skink, two indigenous lizards.
Jewish and Israeli leaders marked the fourth anniversary of Argentinian federal prosecutor Alberto Nisman’s murder by unveiling a monument in his memory at the Ben Shemen forest in central Israel.
