Amid an arctic freeze, Lone Star State residents opened doors to friends without power, cooked meals, and even mobilized to ensure that hundreds of doses of coronavirus vaccines would not go to waste.

Israel’s Galilee International Management Institute is to train 100 farmers from Kano state Nigeria, which is on the edge of the desert, and the existence of a 60-member search-and-rescue team wearing IDF uniforms in the Israeli-Arab town of Abu Gosh may surprise you.