A 400-foot poster displays 120 years of Zionism at Ben Gurion Airport; KKL-JNF held its first Latin American Youth Leadership Conference in Israel; 102 members of India’s Bnei Menashe community have arrived in Israel, and much more.

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12,000 18-30-year-olds are in Israel to participate in long-term Masa (journey) Israel programs; AlmaLinks, a group focused on promoting ties between the global Jewish business community and Israel, has started sponsoring its own Birthright-style trip, bringing business executives to Israel, and much more.

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The Israel Antiquities Authority’s has now fully excavated the 8th Century BCE (1st Temple period) Lachish city gate near Mount Hebron; The Israel Antiquities Authority has recovered a papyrus from the time of the 1st Temple documenting a wine shipment from Na’artah to Jerusalem, and much more.

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Talpiot’s garages are being replaced with modern office buildings and showrooms; Arifa and Assad Farajov recently immigrated to Israel from Azerbaijan, and much more.

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206 immigrants from France arrived in Israel in the largest-ever summer mass-aliyah from France; Israel welcomed 218 new immigrants (Olim) from North America as the summer season of Aliyah organized by Nefesh B’nefesh begins, and much more.

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Jerusalem Post’s Barbara Sofer lists 68 reasons to be proud of Israel as it celebrates its 68th Independence Day; JNF Missions transcend the boundaries of a standard trip and provide participants with a deeper connection to the land and people of Israel, and much more.

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Hiking is very popular in Israel and you have the potential to find things almost everywhere at its 37,000 registered archaeological sites, and Filipino hospitality – opening the Philippines to Jews fleeing the Holocaust – earned Israel’s gratitude, which now welcomes Filipinos, and much more.

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Read about the young people who are running the Jerusalem marathon on March 18, to raise funds for ALEH – the Israeli charity for disabled children, and Veterinarians at Israel’s Ramat Gan Safari park worked to save the eyesight of a porcupine that had hurt its face while trying to escape from a trap.

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Israel’s unique Sea Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation Center saves sea turtles, and Ezer Mizion helps chldren on physical and spiritual journey from treatment to remission.

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