Haifa's Golda Meir Mount Carmel International Training Center promotes peace and the human rights of women in the Palestinian, Israeli Arab, and Druze communities.

Israel's Garin Tzabar program, which supports 'lone soldiers' who have no family in Israel, recently welcomed close to 360 young women and men from around the world into its care.

Ben-Gurion University and the University of Chicago will be collaborating on joint research projects geared at solving the international water crisis.

A greater number of students from China will be studying in Israel's Technion University thanks to a new multi-million dollar Chinese scholarship fund.