From August 7 to 15, Marina Rosenberg Koritny, Head of the Department for the Promotion of Aliyah, and Israeli menswear designer Yossi Katzav embarked on a tour of Brazil.Lectures, meetings with the WIZO organization, and getting acquainted with local Jewish designers showed: Israeli fashion is not just style, but also a tool for cultural dialogue.

Early in the morning of July 13, from the launch site at Cape Canaveral in Florida, the Israeli communication satellite “Dror-1” was launched into space — the first fully national telecommunications satellite in the history of the State of Israel.

On October 28, the Knesset of Israel passed a law prohibiting the activities of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) within Israel.