On August 15, the latest Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), widely known as the Shanghai Ranking, was published.

“There are more Italians in New York than in Rome, more Irish than in Dublin, and more Jews than in any city in Israel” – this phrase has long become a symbol of the unique character of America’s main metropolis.

On November 29, 1947, the UN General Assembly adopted Resolution 181, proposing to divide the territory of the British Mandate in Palestine into two states — Jewish and Arab, with Jerusalem to be made an international zone.