We already know that Israel and the Province of Manitoba are collaborating on wetlands research. And last year Canada’s water experts from Manitoba were in Israel to learn about the very dry country’s techniques in water conservation.
Last week my friend from Reuters sent me a note that Israel is to host the second Manitoba-Israel Water [...]

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By Lauren Kramer
Raising money ain’t childsplay, but the fruits of those fundraising efforts will be. Manitoba and Tel Aviv are collaborating to build a playground in the Ajami neighbourhood of Jaffa, a collaboration that was launched in Winnipeg recently.
The Manitoba-Israel Shared Values Roundtable (MISVR), led by Manitoba Minister of Water Stewardship Christine Melnick, will [...]

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By Lauren Kramer
Last month the province of Manitoba announced it would commit $100,000 a year for three years toward collaborative research with Israel on HIV/AIDS, influenza and swine flu. The research will be conducted by scientists in Manitoba and Jerusalem under the Global Research Exchange Program, a project initiated by Canadian Friends of Hebrew University.
This [...]

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by Karen Kloosterman

Here is a picture of Canada. Compared to Canada, Israel’s total length is less than the distance between Toronto and Montreal. Its territory is smaller than Vancouver Island and about the same size and shape of Lake Manitoba (see Israel marked in red).
Maybe this is why Manitoba is looking to Israel to learn [...]

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 By Lauren Kramer
The Manitoba Water Symposium was held last week, with 12 water specialists from Israel convening with local water researchers in Winnipeg August 12 to 14. The symposium was held at the impetus of Manitoba’s Minister of Water Stewardship, Christine Melnick, who is an admirer of Israel’s water regime and educational system. “I saw [...]

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By Lauren Kramer
Manitoba’s Minister of Water Stewardship can’t get enough of Israel. Christine Melnick has visited Israel five times over the past few years, and when, on her most recent trip in January 2007, the Jewish National Fund offered her the chance to see various water management projects in the state, she jumped at the [...]

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