When a major news story breaks - on Israel, the Middle East or the Jewish world - the Jewish Virtual Library is here with the necessary facts and information to help you better understand and explain the issues.

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Shemini Atzeret & Simkhat Torah (October 1 & 2)

Upcoming Anniversaries: 
Oslo II Signed (September 28)
Elie Wiesel Born (September 30)

September 13:

• Poll: 85% of British Jews Believe Corbyn is Anti-Semitic

September 6: 

• Paraguay Reverses Course, Moves Embassy Back to Tel Aviv

September 5:

• Filipino President Duterte Visits Israel
• Approximately Half of Israeli Adults are Overweight
• UK Labour Party Adopts Full Anti-Semitism Definition
• Israel has Struck Over 200 Iranian Targets in Syria Over the Last 2 Years

August 31: 

• Intel's new 8th Gen Processors Developed & Designed in Israel
• Iran Transfers Ballistic Missiles to Shiite Proxies in Iraq

August 29: 

• U.S. Announces Total Stoppage of all Funding for UNRWA

August 28:

• Israel Spent $15.95 Billion, 4.5% of GDP, on R&D in 2017
• Iran and Syria Sign Agreement to Strengthen Military Cooperation
• Ariel University Announces new Medical School

August 24: 

• U.S. Announces Stoppage of Funding for UNHRC

August 22: 

• New Audio Surfaces Featuring ISIS Leader al-Baghdadi
• Israeli and Australian Defense Companies Sign Industrial Cooperation Agreement
• Israeli Aid Team Dispatched to Kerala India for Flood Relief

August 21:

• Iran Unveils a new Domestically Produced Fighter Jet
• Nazi War Criminal Jakiw Palij Deported From U.S. to Germany
• Israel to Sell Drone Dome to UK for $20 Million

August 20:

• Israel's Operation Good Neighbor has Treated Over 10,000 Syrian Civilians
• Ugandan Abayudaya  Jews to Embark on Community's First Ever Birthright Trip

August 16: 

• FY2019 NDAA Includes $500 Million for US-Israel Missile Defense, $50 Million for Counter-Tunnel Cooperation

August 14: 

• Two Israelis Bring Home Gold Medals From European Paralympic Championships
• Dani Dayan Becomes First Israeli Representative to Make Official Visit to U.S. Virgin Islands

August 13:

• Iran Carries out First Missile Test Since March 2017
• Labour Party Leader Admits Attending Ceremony Honoring Black September

August 10:

• Tel Aviv has the Highest Number of Startups per Capita in the World

August 9: 

• Clip Surfaces of UK Labour Party Leader Corbyn Questioning Israel's Right to Exist

August 8: 

• 1,000 Women Enlisted in IDF Combat Units in 2017
• First Female IAF Squadron Leader Appointed
• Avigdor Lieberman: Syrian Army is Returning to pre-Civil war Levels and Beyond

August 6: 

• 20,000 Happy Israelis Participate in Tel Aviv's Pride Festival

August 3: 

• Israel Hosts International Children's Games in Jerusalem

August 2:

• IAF Strike Kills 7 ISIS Terrorists on Syria-Israel Border

July 31:

• Canadian Bank Donates $2 Million to BGU
• Arab Woman Appointed Dean of Hebrew U's School of Social Work
• Anti-Semitism on the Rise in France

*News Archive*

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Terrorism | US-Israel Relations | Virtual Jewish World

Biography

• Efraim Halevy
• Danny Yatom
• Shabtai Shavit
• Nahum Admoni
• Yitzhak Hofi
• Zvi Zamir
• Karl Chmielewski
• Jakiw Palij [Updated]
• Haim Saban [Updated]
• Dean Kremer
• Mike Pompeo
• Fredy Hirsch
• Anatoly Shapiro
• Perry Farrell
• Simone Veil
• Anthony Bourdain

Fact Sheets

• Israel Population [Updated]
• Iranian Europe-Based Operational Activity (1979 - Present)
• Iran's Ballistic Missile and Space Launch Programs (CRS, 2018)
• The Threat From Iran [Updated]
• Syria Military Threat to Israel [Updated]
• The Money Trail: The Millions Given by EU Institutions to NGOs with Ties to Terror and Boycotts against Israel (PDF)
• Israel Space R&D [Updated]
• Great March of Return
• UNSC Resolutions [Updated]
• The Failure of Sanctions Against Iran [Updated]
• Trump and Israel

History

• Ethiopia Virtual Jewish Tour [Updated]
• 1967 War: Israeli Leaders Discuss Future of Captured Territories
• Census of Arabs in Areas Captured by Israel in 1967
• Israeli Envoy Meets Palestinians Following 1967 War
• Israel Bans the Beatles (1964)
• Truman Tallies Votes for Partition

Holocaust

• Goldstein Thanks Eisenhower For Letter On Anniversary of Liberation (April 29, 1955)
• Eisenhower Letter On 10th Anniversary of Liberation of Concentration Camps (March 21, 1955)
• Eisenhower Discusses Atrocities at Press Conference (June 18, 1945)
• George Marshall Letter to Eisenhower Describing Visit to Ohrdruf (April 15, 1945)
• SHAEF Counterintelligence Report on Concentration Camps
• Harold Porter Describes Conditions in Dachau After Liberation
• Excerpts from the Report of the Surrender of Gen. Dittmar
• The Hasag Panzerfaust Factory and Buchenwald Concentration Camp
• Exchange Between Eisenhower and Churchill Re British Inspection Teams (April 1945)
• Eisenhower Cable to Marshall Re Nazi Horrors and Need to Show Press and Congress
• Inspection of Buchenwald by U.S. Officers
• Letter From Patton to Eisenhower Re Ohrdruf and Camp at Weimar
• Report on Atrocities Committed by the Germans Against the Civilian Population of Belgium
• Investigation Report on the Life in a German Extermination Camp (Natzweiler) and the Atrocities Committed There
• SHAEF: Reports on Concentration Camps
• SHAEF: Grain Quotas, Expulsions and Executions in Poland
• SHAEF: Nazi Documents Re Eastern Territories
• SHAEF: Economic Life in Poland
• Jewish Partisans Saving Jews
• The Bielski Group
• Female Jewish Partisans
• Living and Surviving as a Jewish Partisan (Videos)
• Recovering Stolen Art [Updated]
• Dachau Liberation Films

Israel

• Science & Technology in Israel [Updated]
• Ariel University [Updated]
• UNHRC and Israel [Updated]
• Women in the IAF [Updated]
• Israel-Related Actions at the UN (2017)
• LGBT Rights in Israel [Updated]
• Hebrew University of Jerusalem [Updated]
• Immigration to Israel by Countries of Origin [Updated]
• Israels Credit Ratings [Updated]
• Israeli Missile Defense Systems [Updated]
• Understanding Israel's Nation-State Law
• Israel-EU Relations [Updated]
• India-Israel Relations [Updated]
• Environmental Issues in Israel [Updated]
• Israel Nation-State Law
• How Israel Stole Iran's Nuclear Secrets
• Israel Space R&D [Updated]
• Tourism in Israel [Updated]
• Women in IDF Combat Units [Updated]
• Israel-China Relations [Updated]
• Sports in Israel [Updated]
• Cooperation With Africa [Updated]
• History and Overview of Israeli Arabs [Updated]
• African Migrants in Israel [Updated]

Judaism

• Jewish Population Metro Areas [Updated]
• University Statements Rejecting BDS [Updated]

The Middle East

• U.S. Foreign Aid to the Palestinians: FY 2018 [updated]
• The Threat From Iran [Updated]
• Operation Good Neighbor [Updated]
• Total Palestinian Refugees [Updated]
• UNGA Resolutions on the Middle East [Updated]
• How Israel Stole Iran's Nuclear Secrets
• Pompeo on a New Iran Strategy
• Nuclear Proliferation in the Middle East [Updated]
• Implementation of the JCPOA [Updated]
• The Failure of Sanctions Against Iran [Updated]

Peace Process

• Conversation between President Carter and Israeli FM Dayan in the Billiard Room at Camp David (September 17, 1978)
• Conversation between US and Egyptian Delegations at Camp David (September 11, 1978)
• Hamas [Updated]

Public Opinion Polls

• Israeli Atittudes About Peace With Palestinians [Updated]
• Israeli Attitudes Towards Other Nations [Updated]
• Israeli Attitudes Towards Diaspora Jewry [Updated]
• Israeli Polls on Peace Process, Society, and Government [Updated]
• Peace Index Polls [Updated]
• Arab World Opinion Index Polls
• Palestinian Views on Palestinian Society [Updated]
• Palestinian Views on Internal Politics [Updated]
• Attitudes of American Jews: AJC Poll 2018
• American Polls on the JCPOA [Updated]

Terrorism

• Comprehensive List of Terrorism Victims in Israel [Updated]
• Islamic State: The Caliphate [Updated]
• Palestinian Rocket and Mortar Attacks [Updated]
• The Stabbing Intifada [Updated]

U.S.-Israel Relations

• Trump Remarks on Rosh Hashanah
• Closure of PLO Office in Washington DC
• Trump Rosh Hashanah Press Call With Jewish Leaders 
• H.R. 2810 - National Defense Authorization Act 2018 (August 2018)
• US-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF) [Updated]
• U.S. Vetoes of UNSC Resolutions Critical of Israel [Updated]
• U.S. aid to the Palestinian Authority, FY 2018
• Israel-NASA Collaboration [Updated]
• Exports to Israel by State [Updated]
• Bilateral Trade Statistics [Updated]

The Virtual Jewish World

• Budapest, Hungary [Updated]
• Philippines [Updated]
• Paraguay [Updated]
• United Kingdom [Updated]
• Uganda [Updated]
• Malaysia [Updated]
• U.S. Virgin Islands [Updated]
• New Zealand [Updated]
• Italy [Updated]
• Canada [Updated]
• France [Updated]
• Guatemela [Updated]
• Finland [Updated]
• Sweden [Updated]