On December 10th, at the Jewish community center JCC KINGS BAY in Brooklyn, an Aliyah Fair was held, organized by the Department of Repatriation Support of the World Zionist Organization.
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.