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Unequal access to clean water threatens international peace
Mar 22, 2013
Unequal access to clean water still remains one of the world’s biggest abuses of human rights and challenges to development – creating millions of avoidable illnesses and deaths every year.
ACT ready to respond in Gaza
Nov 19, 2012
ACT Palestine is ready to mobilise humanitarian assistance in Gaza for the victims of the escalating conflict between Hamas and Israel.
Gaza's farmers still strangled by the blockade
Mar 07, 2011
Gaza’s farmers have the potential to export 2300 tonnes of strawberries, 55 million carnation flowers and 714 tons of cherry tomatoes every year, after meeting the demands of its local market
ACT: flotilla attack “a crime”
May 31, 2010
Israeli military forces attack flotilla of aid for Gaza killing 10 people.
ACT in Israel
International organisations in Israel
- Department of Service to Palestinian Refugees of the Middle East Council of Churches (DSPR/MECC)
- Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Mission (FELM)
- International Orthodox Christian Charities (IOCC)
- Norwegian Church Aid (NCA)
- diakonia, Sweden
Organisations funding work in Israel
- Brot für Alle/Pain pour le Prochain (Bread for All) (BfA)
- Brot für die Welt (BfdW) (Bread for the World)
- Canadian Lutheran World Relief (CLWR)
- Christian Aid (CA)
- Christian World Service (CWS)
- Church of Sweden (CoS)
- Diakonie Austria
- Inter-Church Organisation for Development Cooperation (ICCO)
- Kerk In Actie (KIA)
- Presbyterian Disaster Assistance (PDA)
- United Church of Canada (UCC)
About Israel
- Population: 7.2 million (UN, 2009)
- Seat of government: Jerusalem, though most foreign embassies are in Tel Aviv
- Area: Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics cites 22,072 sq km (8,522 sq miles), including Jerusalem and Golan
- Major languages: Hebrew, Arabic
- Major religions: Judaism, Islam, Christianity
- Life expectancy: 79 years (men), 83 years (women) (UN)
- Monetary unit: 1 new Israeli shekel (NIS) = 100 new agorot
- Main exports: Computer software, military equipment, chemicals, agricultural products
- GNI per capita (Israel only): US $24,700 (World Bank, 2008)