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.
The Hadassah Women’s Zionist Organization of America, one of the largest women’s Zionist organizations in the world, was founded on March 3, 1912, by Henrietta Szold.