* Shimon Peres, who was the keynote speaker at the World Nano-Economic Congress, said the following: "Nuclear power is destructive but nanotechnology is all about constructing the world anew. It gives us the opportunity to change everything: to make computers the size of a head of a pin, material hundreds of times stronger than steel, robots the size of a single hair on your head that can travel inside your body and attack cells like those that cause cancer." * Ohr Simcha is a home for children of loneliness, fear, and poverty, the home for which they have yearned for all their young lives. This state-of-the-art residential and educational facility is located in Kfar Chabad, not far from Tel Aviv. * "Once in the fourth grade, I got caught in a lie..." Thus begins "Jewish Values for a Secular World," as Jeff Jacoby explains the revolutionary nature of the message Jews have been telling their children and the rest of the world for 3,500+ years. * A film by a Tel Aviv student has won first prize in the Manhattan Short Film Festival. Sheferman's achievement is even more impressive insofar as over 550 films from 30 countries were submitted as entries this year, and only 12 were admitted to the final competition. * The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization on Thursday awarded the city of Tel Aviv-Jaffa the status of a site of world heritage, for its historical urban buildings in the Bauhaus style.

The buildings, built in the 1930s and named by the "White City" organization, put Tel Aviv on a list of just 7 cities to receive the award. (Part of miniluv's Positive Blogging Week)