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.

World Zionist Organization, Department for the promotion of Aliyah was proud to take part in the March for Israel in Washington DC.

Jewish communities in the Middle East and North Africa, which existed for more than two thousand years, virtually disappeared in the 20th century.