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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.

In an August flare-up between Israel and Palestinian Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip, the Iron Dome once again proved invaluable, intercepting 97 percent of projectiles fired toward Israel that it engaged.

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.

With the Israeli Knesset voting to dissolve itself and head to its fifth election in just three years, the country will see Yair Lapid, who served as alternate prime minister and foreign minister in the outgoing government, become the Jewish state’s 14th prime minister.

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.