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A NALA Foundation worker teaches children in Ethiopia about preventing the spread of trachoma, a disease that can cause blindness. Credit: Courtesy/eJewishPhilanthropy
May 27, 2026, 3:42 pm
Pears Foundation steps in with £1.7m Ethiopia blindness programme after USAID cuts
Five-year initiative backed by British Jewish philanthropy aims to protect 1.5 million Ethiopians from preventable blindness
By Annabel Sinclair
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April 4, 2023, 1:08 pm
OPINION: Pesach re-imagined thanks to Little Amal, global symbol of human rights
How a 12-foot puppet of a Syrian refugee child inspired me, writes JW3's Raymond Simonson.
By Raymond Simonson
Joan Salter in the National Holocaust Centre and Museum's 'Forever Project
January 10, 2023, 4:14 pm
New £800,000 National Lottery grant lets National Holocaust Centre redevelop
Centre and museum based in Nottinghamshire now has the £4.2m needed for major overhaul set to take more than a year to complete
By Jewish News Reporter
June 9, 2022, 2:21 pm
Wounded UK veterans compete and dance in Israel to soundtrack of ‘Habibi Tel Aviv’
Britain can learn a lot from Israel's support for those whose war record is all too visible - and families are learning to bond again after conflicts which so altered their lives
By Justin Cohen
British and Israeli participants at the inaugural Veterans Games.
November 25, 2021, 11:07 pm
‘Competing in Israel gave me back my pride’: Veteran Games 2 launches
Veterans minister Leo Docherty hailed the Jewish state for honouring injured service personnel, adding the UK 'admires and is a little bit envious' of its tech and cyber innovation
By Justin Cohen
June 8, 2021, 5:49 pm
Pears Foundation to match donations to global vaccine campaign
Jewish philanthropic trust will double every pound donated this summer to help deliver two billion COVID-19 jabs around the world
By Michael Daventry
LtR: Prof. Rivka Dresner-Polak (grant winner), Prof. Eli Keshet (grant winner), Prof. Ruth Armin (co-chair of the UK-IL Science Committee), Dr. Amnon Buxboim (grant winner), HMA Neil Wigan, Prof. Ittai Ben Porath, Dr. Dina Zur (representing grant winner, Prof. Anat Lowenstein)
October 24, 2019, 12:20 pm
Seven bilateral research projects win £2.8m in medical funding
Promising submissions get support from the Britain Israel Research and Academic Exchange Partnership, including one scheme hoping to 'reverse the effects of ageing
By Stephen Oryszczuk
Prof. Lord Robert Winston and UK Ambassador to Israel David Quarrey at UK Israel Science Week
March 7, 2018, 12:21 pm
UK and Israeli scientists to work on age-related diseases with new £5m fund
Researchers from Britain and the Jewish state will work together on pioneering work into age-related diseases
By Jewish News Reporter
Working at the laboratory
December 14, 2017, 5:10 pm
British-Israeli stem cell research projects awarded £1.5 million in funding
Four projects join the Britain Israel Research and Academic Exchange programme (BIRAX) helping to tackle degenerative diseases
A blueprint of how the Princess Alexandra home will look
September 14, 2017, 10:48 am
Care home to undergo £47 million overhaul
Jewish Care’s Princess Alexandra home gets the green light for major redevelopment project, 18 months after a fundraising campaign was launched
By Jewish News Reporter
Desecrated Jewish graves (2017)
September 13, 2017, 10:34 am
Revealed: Five percent of Brits are anti-Semites, 30 percent hold one hateful view
Anti-Semitism in UK 'among the lowest in the world' according to a new wide-ranging report by the Institute for Jewish Policy Research with the CST
By Jenni Frazer
The initiative of the Chief Rabbi last year took 16 Jewish students to the slums of Mumbai. This year, it will send participants to a Muslim-majority area of Ghana, to experience Jewish social responsibility in Africa.
August 15, 2017, 2:41 pm
Students to see extreme poverty in Ghana on Chief Rabbi’s initiative
Participants on the Ben Azzai Programme will visit the Muslim-majority city of Tamale to experience extreme poverty that blights the area
By Jewish News Reporter
Trevor Pears
January 18, 2016, 1:05 pm
Children’s hospice ‘overwhelmed’ by £100,000 grant from Pears Foundation
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