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The unit also runs Persian social
BRIEFS media channels which reach one mil- German before, ever.” two of the seven major and 45 smaller
Founded by Steven Spielberg, the
ghettos in occupied Poland and the So-
viet Union where Jewish underground
lion users in Iran. In addition, up to
foundation’s archive has 55,000 video
a third of the unit’s 400,000 Twitter testimonies from survivors and wit- groups operated. In dozens of ghet-
many Israeli Arabs do not speak He- continued from previous page followers are in Saudi Arabia. (James nesses of genocide. (Matt Lebovic, tos, including Krakow, Vilna, Kovno,
brew well enough to do so. compared to 9% who agreed in June Rothwell, Sunday Telegraph - UK) Times of Israel) Bedzin and Czestochowa, Jews took
Lt.-Col. David Ron, the com- 2020. 61% disagree, compared to 86% up arms against their persecutors.
mander of the battalion, said, “My in June. (David Pollock, Washington AMAZING DETECTIVE WORK IDF IS USING In the Minsk ghetto, up to 10,000
battalion is more of a ‘comfort zone’ Institute for Near East Policy) REUNITES BEST FRIENDS MORE DRONES Jews successfully escaped, many of
for them: They speak Arabic here and THOUGHT MURDERED IN On its Golan Heights frontier with Syr- whom joined the Soviet partisans. Jews
hang around with people who are more ISRAEL LAUNCHES THE HOLOCAUST ia, field intelligence battalions of the led six prisoner rebellions in concen-
like them. But on the other hand, we SOCIAL MEDIA EFFORT In 1939, two nine-year-old Jewish Israel Defense Forces are using an in- tration and death camps, with at least
are also a home for those who tried to TO REACH ARAB YOUTH girls from Berlin promised to keep in creasing number of drones. 18 occurring in slave labor camps. In
join other units in the IDF, but it didn’t IN WAKE OF PEACE touch. One family fled to Chile, while Battalion commander Yotam Gil- the uprising at Sobibor on October
work out. So instead of leaving com- ACCORDS the other made its way to the U.S. via lon said, “We use them every day, 14, 1943, coordinated by Polish Jew-
pletely, they can come here.” Yet Ron Israel is deploying a social media unit Shanghai. For the first time after 82 sometimes even twice or three times ish resisters and Soviet Jewish pris-
stressed that whenever it comes to op- in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to years, Ana Maria Wahrenberg and Bet- a day, to collect intelligence.” Similar oners of war, 300 prisoners escaped,
erational actions, speaking in Hebrew introduce Arabs to Israeli perspectives ty Grebenschikoff connected with each units are focused on Gaza and Leba- of whom 47 survived the war. There
is mandatory. on key security issues, such as the other again on Zoom, facilitated by non. were 144 prisoners who escaped from
In addition, there is an entire edu- threat posed by the Iranian regime and Holocaust testimony indexer Ita Gor- Troops carry small drones that Auschwitz.
cational and economic apparatus oper- its proxy groups in the region. Yonatan don, whose sharp memory linked the they can quickly launch for scanning Up to 30,000 Jews served as armed
ating within the battalion. They study Gonen, 34, head of the unit’s Arabic women. their immediate surroundings, which partisan fighters in Russia, Ukraine
Hebrew at different levels as well as life team, said, “Without social media we “In her [USC Shoah Foundation] significantly increases their ability to and the Baltic states. The Avengers,
skills, such as learning to go through a would not have been able to reach such testimony, Betty said she had been ac- identify potential threats. a Jewish partisan group operating in
job interview or open a bank account. a large audience in the Arab world be- tively searching for her long-lost friend Gillon anticipates that his troops the Lithuanian forests, is credited with
(Udi Shaham, Jerusalem Post) cause...most Arab media is very hostile for her entire life. She even specifical- will soon get small loitering munitions killing over 200 enemy soldiers, res-

NEW SAUDI POLL SHOWS to us.” ly mentions Ana Maria’s name,” said to use for neutralizing enemy combat- cuing at least 70 Jews and destroying
ants in close-quarters fighting. (Paul
180 miles of train tracks. Jews were
The unit’s Israel Arabic page on
SHARP RISE IN SUPPORT Facebook has 2.8 million fans. One Rachael Cerrotti, a creative producer at Iddon, Forbes) also over-represented in the resistance
the foundation. After hearing Wahren-
FOR ISRAEL TIES recent post, which received more than berg speak at a virtual Kristallnacht movements of Germany, Austria and
A new public opinion poll commis-6,000 “likes,” shows a beaming group event, Gordon made the connection UK EXHIBIT HIGHLIGHTS Western Europe. In Belgium, the Com-
sioned by the Washington Institute of Arabs, one wearing a veil, sitting in between Grebenschikoff’s testimony – JEWISH RESISTANCE TO ite de defense des Juifs saved some
shows that the Saudi public is increas-a restaurant in Dubai with Israeli tour- given to the foundation 24 years ago – THE NAZIS 2,400 Jewish children. (Robert Philpot,
ingly open to contacts with Israel. ists. Another Facebook post juxtapos- and Wahrenberg. “Jewish Resistance to the Holocaust,” Times of Israel)
41% call the agreements between es glamorous photographs from Saudi After more than 80 years of be- an exhibition at London’s Wiener Ho-
Israel and the UAE and Bahrain a Arabia and the UAE with the ruins of lieving the other had perished in the locaust Library, draws on a unique col- THE AXIS OF RESISTANCE
“positive development,” while 54% la-countries where Iran’s proxies wield Holocaust, the women connected vir- lection of photographs, manuscripts TO ISRAEL IS BREAKING UP
bel the agreements as negative. influence, such as Syria and Iraq. “We tually in November. Lucas Kirschman, and over 1,000 eyewitness accounts. Iran’s axis of resistance to Israel once
37% agree that “people who want want to show the Arab world that we one of Grebenschikoff’s grandchildren, “There was Jewish resistance to the comprised Hizbullah, Hamas and
to have business or sports contacts with have a shared challenge, not just with said, “It was so natural for them. They Holocaust across Europe,” said Dr. Bashar al-Assad’s regime. As Hamas
Israelis should be allowed to do so,” the Iranian regime but also on regional picked back up...like no big deal.... I’ve Barbara Warnock, the library’s senior backed the anti-Assad rebels in the
development,” said Gonen. never heard my grandmother speak curator. Warsaw and Bialystok were continued on next page

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