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.
Learn more about the violence in Israel and the terrorist attacks in Israel. So far 2023 has been a particularly volatile period between Israelis and Palestinians. Tragically, 34 Israelis have been murdered so far this year by Palestinian terrorists – surpassing the total killed in terror attacks in all of 2022
AJC CEO Ted Deutch was joined on stage by Israeli President Isaac Herzog during the opening plenary of AJC Global Forum 2023. During their conversation, Ted and President Herzog discussed a range of pertinent issues including judicial reform, the relationship between Israel and the Diaspora, U.S.-Israel ties, and more.
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.