Broader View: Israel Resource Center

New on Broader View: April 2015

• Antisemitism: A Defining Moment for Europe by Daniel Schwammenthal, Jerusalem Post, April 27
• BDS: Still a Loser?, Divest This, April 10
• Iran: Obama rolls the dice by Jackson Diehl, Washington Post, April 12
• Public Diplomacy: Hasbara Theory and Practice by Eric Rozenman, InFocus, March 2015
• New page! Zionism

In the News

• Israel celebrates 67^th Independence Day
• Netanyahu close to forming new governing coalition
• Israel home to 8.3 million people, 75% of them Jewish
• Israel is experiencing a mini baby boom, 9 months after Operation Protective Edge
• Israeli Knesset (parliament) installed a solar roof
• U.S. issues 3,555 patents to Israelis in 2014, up 21% from 2013
• UNESCO declares new World Heritage Site in Israel
• Israeli economy grew at 7% rate in 4^th quarter of 2014
• Israeli teens win international robotics competition
• Bloomberg: Tel Aviv #2 in the world for tech startups
• USA Today: Tel Aviv #8 in the world for bike sharing
• SolarEdge raises $126 million on the NASDAQ; QuantX raises close to $1B in record seed round; Kornit goes public on NASDAQ; Apple buys LinX Imaging; Check Point acquires Lacoon; BlackBerry buys WatchDox. In first quarter of 2015, 11 Israeli companies raised $1.5 billion on Wall Street.
• Recent visitors to Israel include U.S. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner; Senator Mitch McConnell; superstars Kim Kardashian and Kanye West; 70 young legal historians; Christian pilgrims; wounded Syrians treated at an Israeli hospital; actor Richard Gere; thousands of tourists from Muslim and Arab countries; attendees at CyberTech 2015, AgriVest, and Startup Fusion conferences; Wharton School business students; eight Rhodes Scholars; and two U.S. Navy vessels,