{"id":1308,"date":"2014-03-12T16:27:37","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T16:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejerusalemgiftshop.com\/israelnews\/?p=1308"},"modified":"2015-01-28T22:26:05","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T22:26:05","slug":"iran-and-good-deeds-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejerusalemgiftshop.com\/israelnews\/iran-and-good-deeds-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran and Good Deeds Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Esther Korson<\/p>\n

Yesterday was the internationally celebrated \u201cGood Deeds Day\u201d. More than 550,000 Israelis took part in some 8000 dedicated volunteer projects nationwide to help those in need. When you consider that the total population of Israel is only 7 million, that is a huge percentage of participation! Hundreds of schools and youth groups, 500 businesses and thousands of soldiers and students participated. They were joined by 376 communities including 116 from the Arab sector. President Shimon Peres also took part in the activities, helping to paint a fence on Bethlehem Road. He commented, \u201cPeople say many things about Israel, but one of the things that they don\u2019t say (but should say) is that Israel has one of the best volunteering records in the world!\u201d<\/p>\n

In my last blog<\/a> I told of the amazing rescue mission of the Iranian arms shipment captured by the Israeli navy on the high seas. The ship arrived in the port of Eilat on the Red Sea on Saturday, and the huge shipment of long range missiles and arms were unloaded from their containers for all the world to see. It was chilling to realize that they were meant to be used against us, the citizens and the people of Israel. Even while they were being unloaded, Kathryn Ashton was busy smiling on her smiley mission to smiley Iran. The world wants to believe that Iran is now a moderate, cooperating friend, and it is sad to see the degree of this delusion.<\/p>\n

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