Chairman of the Executive of The Jewish Agency for Israel Natan Sharansky and Israeli Minister of Education and Diaspora Affairs Naftali Bennett last night (Tuesday, December 20) spoke to Jewish children and teenagers from three different continents in celebration of the new government-established Week of Strengthening the Connection to Diaspora Jewry.
The conversation, which took place in The Jewish Agency’s situation room in Jerusalem via videoconference, centered on the connection between Israel and the Jewish world and involved students from five schools - Golda Ochs Academy in West Orange, New Jersey; the Arthur I. Meyer Jewish Academy in Palm Beach County, Florida; the Begin Interdisciplinary School in Safed (Tzfat), Israel; the Merchavim Regional School in Merchavim, Israel; and Ulpanat Noga in Beit Shemesh, Israel—as well as campers at a Bnei Akiva summer camp in South Africa, where it is currently summertime.