In celebration of Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israel’s Independence Day, join American Jewish Committee (AJC) and Ryan Lavarnway, 15-year Major League Baseball catcher and Team Israel veteran, for a live recording of AJC’s podcast, People of the Pod.
On Friday, August 5, the Israel Defense Forces launched Operation Breaking Dawn in response to days of threats from the Iranian-backed Palestinian Islamic Jihad that it would attack Israel. During this operation, several terror targets in the northern Gaza Strip were struck and killed. Join American Jewish Committee (AJC) for an on-the-ground briefing with AJC Jerusalem Director Lt. Col. (res.) Avital Leibovich.
In a special video message to AJC Global Forum 2022, Israel’s Alternate Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Yair Lapid described the current global struggle between good and evil, with terrorism and violence on one side and freedom and democracy on the other.
Introduced by Barak Rabinowitz, Managing Partner at F2 Venture Capital, and Steven Wisch, Chair of AJC’s Board of Trustees, the audience had the opportunity to hear from Ran Ginosar, a professor at Israel's Technion Institute of Technology's Andrew and Erna Viterbi Faculty of Electrical Engineering.