B’nai B’rith World Center – Jerusalem: Our Connection To Events And Leaders In Israel

Our World Center in Jerusalem keeps us well connected to events and leaders in Israel. The World Center has contacts from the top echelons of the Knesset—essential for this work.

In fact, the World Center was instrumental in arranging missions to Israel for U.N. diplomats and members of European Parliament. The World Center also played a big role in organizing meetings for the Israeli leg of the Jewish and American-Hellenic delegation’s tri-state trip.

Your support on Israel Independence Day means that the World Center can continue advocating for Israel at the highest levels of government; educating diplomats, politicians and members of civil society on the Jewish state; commemorating Yom Hashoah; and providing aid for victims of terror.

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World Center Draws International Coverage With Presentation Of Jewish Rescuers Citation On Yom Hashoah

It’s the Holocaust rescue story that often goes untold—Jews who put their lives on the line to save their fellow Jews.

Shmuil Markowitz Pevzner (1912-1991), a Jew who saved 300 children from the Druskininkai Soviet Pioneers Camp during Operation Barbarossa, was honored by B’nai B’rith World Center and the Jewish National Fund at their 14th annual Holocaust commemoration ceremony on Thursday at the B’nai B’rith Martyr’s Forest Scroll of Fire Plaza in Jerusalem.

Read the full story on JewishPress.com

The B’nai B’rith World Center in Jerusalem and Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael (KKL-JNF) held, for the 14th consecutive year, a unique joint Holocaust commemoration ceremony on Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day).

This is the only event dedicated annually to commemorating the heroism of Jews who rescued fellow Jews during the Holocaust. More than 850 people attended the event, including about 200 Border Patrol Cadets who provided an honor guard and 200 high school students, along with Jewish rescuers and survivors. The ceremony was held at the B’nai B’rith Martyr’s Forest “Scroll of Fire” Plaza.

The ceremony honoring Shmuil Markowitz Pevzner, who succeeded in rescuing 300 children from Poland, was covered internationally, with coverage in English, Hebrew, Russian and Spanish.

Click here for a complete round-up of international coverage

Assisting Israelis Who Are Victims Of Terror

The Edith “Pat” Wolfson Endowment was created in 2005 to provide financial assistance to children in Israel who have lost at least one of their parents. Since the program’s inception, World Center Director Alan Schneider has made it a priority to carefully consider, with lay input, who the recipient will be each year and personally deliver the check to the child’s guardian.

Recently, Schneider delivered a check to the wife and daughter of St. Sgt. Tuvia Yanai Weissman, who was murdered in February 2016 in a grocery store by Palestinian terrorists.

Below, Schneider describes his most recent experience:

Nearly all of the 10 presentations have been made to victims of Palestinian terrorism, and not one of the encounters, usually in their living rooms, was an easy experience. The process begins with a cautious telephone call to broach our intention to make the grant (at least one guardian refused our largess) and set a meeting to hand over the grant check. I made the latest, particularly heartbreaking presentation, last week just before the Passover holiday to Yael Weissman for the benefit of her 7-month old daughter, Neta. Their husband and father, St. Sgt. Tuvia Yanai Weissman (21), was murdered on Thursday, Feb. 18, while trying to protect them and other shoppers from two 14-year old, knife-wielding Palestinian terrorists at the Rami Levy supermarket at Sha’ar Binyamin.

Click here to read "Palestinian Terrorism and Its Tragedies"

Critical Insight Into Israel and the surrounding geopolitics

World Center Director Alan Schneider routinely provides analysis and insight for BnaiBrith.org regarding the latest goings-on on Israel. Whether it’s commentary on Israel’s current security concerns amidst the rough neighborhood that is the Middle East, an update on recent terror attacks or lending his expertise to members of Knesset, Schneider gives valuable context to some of the pressing issues facing the Jewish state.

WATCH: B’nai B’rith World Center – Jerusalem Director Alan Schneider delivers a speech (Hebrew) at a conference held at the Knesset to launch a new caucus.