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The Ichud Hatzala organization helps rescue survivors following a huge earthquake in Turkey, February 10, 2023. (Yehiel Gorfein)
January 4, 2025, 3:49 pm
Israeli overseas development, humanitarian aid NGOs hit hard as philanthropy dries up
Softer face of Israel abroad impacted as Jewish donors focus on Israel, antisemitism. Post-Oct. 7, some international funders distance themselves from Jewish, Israeli orgs
By Sue Surkes
Members of the first Afrikan delegation sit with students in a renovated classroom in a school in Malindi, Tanzania, in May 2021.(Idan Arad/Courtesy of Afrikan)
July 23, 2022, 9:17 am
Ex-IDF officers band together with Tanzanian villagers to improve life on the ground
25-year old Rafi Ryker founds Afrikan, a volunteer organization that utilizes Israeli ingenuity and leadership skills to help locals build a vision and realize it themselves
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Lina Zeldovich, author of 'The Other Dark Matter.' (Courtesy)
April 22, 2022, 3:14 am
Upcycling feces? Don’t pooh-pooh it. Dropping inhibitions can have heaps of benefits
In ‘The Other Dark Matter,’ journalist Lina Zeldovich argues that humanity is wasting a perfectly good resource that can be used for fertilizing crops, biofuel and even medicine
By Rich Tenorio
Kashmiri village women carry vessels containing water after filling them from a polluted river, on the eve of World Water Day in Khuniphat, some 30 kilometers (18 miles) north of Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir, on March 21, 2015. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin/File)
January 9, 2022, 7:47 pm
Israeli cleantech company aims Miriam’s Well water purifier at developing world
Alumor, whose designer once headed tech at water purification company Tami4, says its solar-powered device uses just four watts of electricity, costs under half a cent per liter
By Sue Surkes
A farm worker cuts roses to be thrown away due to a pandemic market slump at Maridadi Flowers farm in Naivasha, Kenya, March 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Patrick Ngugi)
October 6, 2021, 7:14 pm
World Bank envoy: Israeli tech to help build greener future in pandemic recovery
COVID response in developing world opens doors to fight climate change, with startups well-positioned to make an impact and a profit; World Bank president meets Bennett, Lapid
By Luke Tress
Gil Haskel, head of MASHAV, Israel's Agency for International Development Cooperation, in Nepal. (MASHAV)
February 23, 2020, 11:41 am
Trade instead of aid? As export markets shrink, Israel looks to developing world
Country’s much-lauded and decades-old overseas development arm faces uncertain future amid budget shortfall, efforts to bring private sector into game
By Sue Surkes
Exhibit photo of Kenyan artist Cyrus Kabiru wearing the 'Jaffa Sun' glasses he created as part of his ongoing C-Stunners series. (Courtesy of Serge Tiroche and the Africa First Collection)
September 6, 2019, 10:10 am
After Tel Aviv residency, African artists paint new picture of Israel back home
Tel Aviv art dealer Serge Tiroche brings artists from the developing world into the international spotlight by inviting rising stars to partake and reconceive of the Holy Land
By Bernard Dichek
Zenan Sumlut examines rice at the organic rice mill she now manages in Kachin, Myanmar. (Emily Fishbein/Times of Israel)
June 14, 2019, 7:00 am
Israeli agriculture courses help developing world students reap what they sow
Partnership initiatives through the Arava International Center for Agricultural Training give trainees tools to return home and launch farms and businesses in their countries
By Emily Fishbein
Palestinian Ambassador to the UN Riyad Mansour addresses the UN General Assembly, October 16, 2018 (UN webtv)
October 17, 2018, 12:56 am
Defying US, UN gives ‘Palestine’ extra rights so it can head major bloc in 2019
General Assembly votes overwhelmingly to grant additional powers to Ramallah for 12 months of its presidency of 134-nation Group of 77; Israel, US and Australia opposed
By Raphael Ahren
Palestinian protesters wave UN and national flags in front of a fabiricated giant refugee card of their President Mahmud Abbas, during a protest against the US decision earlier this year to cut funds to UN aid to Palestinians, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, on September 26, 2018. (AFP/Musa Al SHAER)
September 27, 2018, 7:02 pm
Palestine confirmed to head massive bloc of developing countries at UN
Egypt’s Sissi hands over to Abbas the presidency of G77, a group of 134 nations comprising some 80 percent of the world’s population
By Raphael Ahren
The Palestinian flag is raised outside UN Headquarters in New York during the 70th session of the UN General Assembly on September 30, 2015 (Raphael Ahren)
July 25, 2018, 2:47 pm
In first, ‘Palestine’ to head bloc of 134 nations at UN
Palestinians to preside over the Group of 77, largest’s coalition of developing nations; Israeli envoy laments it will become ‘a platform for spreading lies and incitement’
By Raphael Ahren
From left to right: Eric Young; Ole Kasoi, first landowner to join the Nashulai Conservancy; and Nelson Ole Reiyia. (Courtesy)
January 30, 2018, 11:44 pm
Jewish Torontonian turned African tribal elder spearheads nature conservancy
After social innovation Prof. Eric Young’s adoption into the Maasai tribe, he quickly came to implement his traditional ‘tikun olam’ upbringing in a new homeland
By Robert Sarner
Sydney Kamen with a village leader in rural Burma in an unofficial refugee camp that is one of SOAP’s partner communities. (Courtesy of Kamen/via JTA)
August 12, 2017, 11:53 pm
Armed with soap, Jewish teen targets disease and poverty in the Third World
Sydney Kamen saw 1.8 million dying annually due to poor hygiene. Now, her nonprofit trains women and children to recycle, resell, and teach others about proper soap use
By Abigail Pickus
A volunteer with the organization World Jewish Relief works with refugees in Greece. (Minos Alchanati/via JTA)
June 17, 2017, 3:29 am
Jewish charitable organizations preach tikkun olam to a tune of $125m.
People are still planting trees in Israel, but Jews aren’t the only tzedaka recipients — some 3 million in the developing world also receive aid
By Ben Sales
President Donald Trump shows off a signed executive order to reinstitute a policy barring any recipient of US assistance from performing or promoting abortions abroad with money they receive from non-US sources, January 23, 2017. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
January 26, 2017, 11:46 am
Belgians join Dutch move to outflank Trump’s anti-abortion plans
Following US ban, Europeans states to form international fund for access to birth control, abortion and sex education in developing countries
By Raf Casert
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