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- American Jews: A bridge over troubled waters by Akiva Tor, Times of Israel, October 27
- BDS: Opaque Funding Network by Mitchell Bard, Jewish Week, October 14
- Europe & Israel: Time for a reset by Gerald Steinberg, Times of Israel, October 19
- Media & Manipulation: No Israeli Victims by Phyllis Chesler, FrontPageMag, October 7
- Water: Israel Is Solving the Global Water Crisis by David Hazony, The Tower, October
More at Antisemitism, Colleges & Universities, Demographics, Egypt, Palestinians, Political Process, Polls, Public Diplomacy
- 11 Israelis have been killed, dozens injured in hundreds of stabbing, shooting, and other attacks, egged on by religious slander, social media posts, and incitement by Palestinian Authority and Hamas media. Eritrean worker killed, mistaken for a terrorist.
- Israeli Arab leaders, including the mayor of Nazareth and a popular newscaster, criticize Palestinian violence
- Palestinians riot on West Bank, torch Joseph’s Tomb
- Palestinian president Abbas, at UN General Assembly, announces end of the Oslo accords; Netanyahu’s speech criticizes Abbas’s and offers to resume peace talks
- Prime Minister Netanyahu wrongly blames Palestinian leader for Holocaust
- UNRWA employees fired for anti-Israeli incitement
- Condé Nast: #1 Mideast hotel: Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem
- UNESCO declares Jewish heritage sites, Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron and Tomb of Rachel in Bethlehem, as Palestinian; attempt to list Western Wall as part of Al Aqsa dropped after widespread criticism
- Israeli boaters save Syrian & Iraqi refugees
- NASA signs agreement with Israel Space Agency; Israel joins UN space panel
- Microsoft buys Israeli cyber security company Secure Islands; General Electric launches Israel accelerator
- Recent statements supporting Israel and against boycotts from Canadian prime minister-elect Justin Trudeau; Pope Francis; Massachusetts State Senate; 150 British artists and intellectuals, including J.K. Rowling; a French court; and candy maker Mentos
- Recent visitors to Israel include UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, U.S. Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff; presidents of India, Honduras, Georgia, and Lithuania; former president Bill Clinton, the governors of Arizona and Colorado, the mayors of New York City and 40 other cities, Hong Kong’s Chief Executive; actor Morgan Freeman, rapper Kayne West, rocker Bon Jovi, singer-songwriter Michael Bolton; NBA basketball players; astronaut Buzz Aldrin and 2000 others at international astronautical convention; international law students at Space Law Moot Court Competition; attendees at WATEC water conference and International Conference for Women Leaders; a dozen foreign military officers for combat training, and thousands of evangelical Christian pilgrims and politicians.
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