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.

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.

The criminal court of the city of Ghent in Belgium acquitted Belgian writer and playwright Herman Brusselmans of charges of inciting hatred and advocating violence against the Jewish community.