Department for the Promotion of Aliya co-organized a rally at Columbia University campus where hundreds of activists and students chanted “Am Yisrael Chai” to call for an end to hatred towards the Jewish community.
Jewish Refugees from Arab Lands: The Jewish ‘Nakba’ With Ben Dror Yemini on 7th June at 7pm Ben Dror Yemini is a researcher, a lecturer and a senior journalist who wrote the bestseller about anti-Israel propaganda: ‘The Industry of Lies: Myths and Facts about the Israeli-Arab Conflict’.
On December 20, the Israeli Knesset approved in the final reading a bill on state funding of higher education for demobilized soldiers of mandatory and extended service.
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.