10.7.2023

Mai Gutman, 28, a graduate student and member of AJC's Campus Global Board, had planned to join her friends at the Supernova music festival near Israel's border with Gaza on Saturday, October 7. But when relatives came to visit, she decided to celebrate Shabbat and Simchat Torah in Jerusalem instead—a change of plans that saved her life.

We’re joined by Yotam Polizer, CEO of IsraAID, to discuss how Israel’s leading international humanitarian organization is responding to the immediate and long-term needs on the ground in the wake of Iran-backed Hamas's barbaric terrorist attack in Israel.

Over the weekend, Hamas, the Iran-backed terror group controlling the Gaza Strip, launched an unprecedented, horrific, and brutal attack on Israel. Join AJC CEO Ted Deutch, Lt. Col. (res) Avital Leibovich, AJC Jerusalem Director, and Eyal Hulata, Director, National Security Council of Israel (2021-23) for an update on the situation on the ground.

On Monday, October 9, hear from AJC Jerusalem Director Avital Leibovich on the situation on the ground following Hamas's unprecedented and murderous attack on Israel.

No time on the Jewish calendar is more closely associated with simchah, with joy, than the concluding festivals of our High Holy Days season. But there is no joy. There is only ayvel, mourning, an “avel gadol layehudim,” an incalculable mourning for the Jewish people: for our Israeli brothers and sisters, for Jews all over the world, for those beyond the Jewish community who love Israel and the Jewish people.

Israel is a small country. At its widest, it is only 60 miles. Missiles can easily blanket the country. Millions of Israelis are sadly accustomed to going into the safe rooms of their homes to weather missile attacks. The weekend assaults, however, introduce a new level of danger. Israel will feel compelled to act and protect its people, but also its future.

AJC Jerusalem’s Lt. Col. (Res.) Avital Leibovich reflects on the devastating toll of these unspeakable crimes committed by Hamas.

Watch AJC's Jason Isaacson set the record straight about the Hamas terror attacks on Israel.

Now is the time for moral clarity. Hamas is a terrorist organization. It is not a defense force. Its overarching goal and its very reason for existence, has always been the annihilation of Israel. Like other Middle East terror groups — Hezbollah in Lebanon and Houthi militants in Yemen — it is funded, trained, armed, and supported by Iran.