As with every week, we publish letters written by students of the department’s ulpanim from around the world to our fighting soldiers on the front lines of the Iron Sword War.
This time we thank Nicole Tordjman from Ulpan Paris 16.
Department for the Promotion of Aliya co-organized the event where thousands of people in New York City’s Times Square viewed an empty Shabbat table set for 224 people, symbolizing the 224 hostages held captive by the terrorist group Hamas.
From August 29 to 31, 1897, the First Zionist Congress took place in the Swiss city of Basel — an event that became a turning point for the Zionist movement.
