Empty Chairs on Times Square with IAC – WZO

Empty Chairs on Times Square with IAC

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.

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