FALLEN SOLDIERS|VICTIMS OF TERROR

WE REMEMBER A HOSTAGE WHO RETURNED HOME

Meny Godard, 73 years old, Kibbutz Be'eri

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WE REMEMBER A VICTIM OF TERROR

Aharon Cohen, 65 years old, Kiryat Arba

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MAY THEIR MEMORIES BE FOR A BLESSING

We just concluded a very successful overseas mission to Azerbaijan and Israel. Members of our leadership team who participated included Fred Guttman, David Woznica, Jeremy Wiederhorn and me.

As in past missions, we had unbelievable access – including what looked like a state visit at the Azerbaijan Parliament with the head of the Foreign Relations committee and others and the National Security Adviser, and others. In Israel we met with a leader in the Yesh Atid party, members of the staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Minister of Tourism and others. Several rabbinical school students joined us in Israel.

To see how the mission was covered in the Azerbaijani press Click Here

To see what Israel's Ministry of Tourism said about our meeting with Minister Katz, Click Here

Look for a Special Edition with more about the mission.

THIS WEEK IN ISRAEL

Happy Sigd! The Ethiopian community celebrated Sigd in Israel today, on 29 Cheshvan, exactly 50 days after Yom Kippur. The holiday is about accepting the Torah and yearning for Israel and the Temple.

Tanzanian and Israeli officials and civilians bid farewell to slain Tanzanian agricultural student Joshua Loitu Mollelin at a ceremony at Ben-Gurion Airport on Tuesday morning, marking the end of a two-year effort to recover his remains from Gaza, following the October 7 Hamas attacks.

Palestinian attackers killed an Israeli man and wounded three others in a car-ramming and stabbing in the West Bank on Tuesday before the assailants were shot dead.

A prominent Palestinian economist has admitted that the PA cannot pay civil servants because it funds terrorists first in what is termed "pay for slay"

Two recent narratives revealed on X:

• A Gazan activist blames foreign media for parroting Hamas's narrative due to fear of death or bodily injury.
• A senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan claims agreement to disarm was never negotiated or agreed to

ISRAELI INNOVATION

Cancer research: Newly published research in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Cancer suggests that bacteria inside brain tumors may play a far more active role in how cancers grow, spread and respond to treatment than previously understood, according to Prof. Ravid Straussman of the Weizmann Institute of Science.

In a groundbreaking study, researchers at Tel Aviv University, leading a large-scale international team of scientists, say they have identified an RNA molecule that can stop the nerve cell damage that causes paralysis in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, ALS.

In a groundbreaking project, The Israeli Water Authority has started channeling desalinated water to the Sea of Galilee, marking the first ever attempt anywhere in the world to top up a freshwater lake with processed seawater.

OF INTEREST TO RABBIS

Governor Greg Abbott signed Texas House Bill 4211 into law to ban residential property developments, like EPIC City, from creating Sharia compounds and defrauding and discriminating against Texans. "One of the issues at stake is the freedom of religion," said Governor Abbott. “Another issue at stake is what’s called the right to contract. The fact is, religious freedom is a central part of the Texas Constitution. But bad actors like EPIC and EPIC City tried to use religion as a form of segregation. We will ensure that we have the laws and law enforcement in place to prevent attempts to build such discriminatory compounds in the state of Texas." 

US professional associations for academics and teachers have allowed antisemitism to “flourish unchecked” by excluding Jewish members and promoting antisemitic and biased anti-Israel narratives

HOSTAGES AND MISSING FAMILY FORUM

US President Donald Trump hosted the Israeli hostages released in last month’s Gaza ceasefire deal at the White House today, November 20.

Click on the picture below to hear former hostage Guy Gilboa-Dalal speak about his days in captivity and his account of the sexual abuse he endured during more than two years in Hamas captivity

Former hostages speak up about the sexual violence they endured, and watched being perpetrated on other hostages, at the hands of their evil Hamas captors.

Click on the picture below to hear Nava Nagila play as non-Jewish Russian Olympic figure skater performs.

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