Last night at the @NLIsrael, Rick Sopher discussed Illuminating Scriptural Connections, with valuable interventions from Rabbi Dr @YakovNagen of the @interfaith_center1.
My doctorate reconstructed twenty years of Israeli relations with Iran that were never recognised nor signed.
Rick and Abdulla Galadari found the same pattern where I did not expect it. Reading all fifty-four Torah portions through the Qur’an, they show the two scriptures engaging one another across centuries in which nobody would have called it dialogue.
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יום מעורר השראה עם ״קול העם״ בבודפשט!
כנשיא מדינת ישראל, יזמתי את ״קול העם״ במטרה לאסוף מנהיגות ומנהיגים יהודים מגוונים מישראל ומהעולם סביב שולחן אחד, וליצור מרחב ייחודי לשיח, דווקא בתקופה של פילוג ומחלוקות עמוקות, ומתוך מטרה לגבש מענים מעשיים לאתגרים שמעצבים את עתיד העם היהודי.
אנו מציינים כאן את סיום פעילותו של המחזור הראשון של המועצה, וכבר רואים בשטח את הפירות של הרעיונות פורצי הדרך שחבריה מוציאים לפועל.
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Two men in Germany were sentenced for spying on behalf of Iran’s Islamic regime and for assassination attempts on Dr. Josef Schuster, president of our affiliate @ZentralratJuden and on @Volker_Beck.
We stand in full solidarity with the Jewish community. This incident shows the global reach of the Islamic regime. Every day, Jewish communities are facing this threat.
The governments in Western democracies need to take a firm stand to protect their societies and prosecute the operatives of the Islamic regime to the full extent.
Angriffe auf jüdisches Leben und auf diejenigen, die es verteidigen, tolerieren wir nicht - nirgendwo, erst recht nicht in Deutschland. Die bösartigen Anschlagsversuche gegen Josef Schuster @ZentralratJuden & @Volker_Beck haben juristische Konsequenzen. 1/3
Kohav HaMizrach, 2008.
My grandfather's paper, the only Persian-language newspaper published outside Iran.
Left: a Shiraz-born Jew, mayor of Beverly Hills, sends Nowruz greetings and asks that the two cities be twinned.
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دعوت وزیر دفاع یک کشور اروپاییِ میزبان کمیسیون اروپا و فرماندهی ناتو از شاهزاده رضا پهلوی، بازتاب‌دهنده جایگاه بین‌المللی شاهزاده و توجه روزافزون به نقش ایشان در امروز و آینده ایران و امنیت منطقه و جهان است.
در ۴۷ سال گذشته دیداری در این سطح از سوی مقامات امنیتی دفاعی اروپا با برجسته‌ترین چهره مخالف جمهوری اسلامی بی‌سابقه بوده است. بی‌تردید نقش ملت ایران در داخل و خارج از کشور در ایستادن کنار شاهزاده رضا پهلوی، در تغییر دیدگاه مقامات امنیتی دفاعی اروپایی نقش اساسی داشته است. همانگونه که شاهزاده همیشه تاکید کرده‌اند قدرت ایشان ناشی از اراده ملت است.
تئو فرانکن، وزیر دفاع و تجارت خارجی بلژیک، روز ۶ نوامبر (۱۵ آبان) در آکادمی سلطنتی نظامی این کشور میزبان شاهزاده رضا پهلوی خواهد بود.
در آغاز این سفر، نشستی با حضور رئیس ستاد دفاع بلژیک و شماری از فرماندهان ارشد نظامی برگزار خواهد شد. سپس شاهزاده رضا پهلوی برای افسران و ژنرال‌های بلژیکی درباره خاورمیانه سخنرانی می‌کند و دیدگاه خود را درباره آینده ایران و چشم‌انداز پیچیده ژئوپلیتیکی منطقه مطرح خواهد کرد.
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מסכם את ביקורי בוועידת CICA בבאקו, אזרבייג׳ן - קולה של ישראל חייב להישמע בכל מקום בעולם!
The question I am often asked: what does a private briefing involve?
It is usually for a board or exec group with a decision in front of them and a gap in their picture of the region.
90 mins.
Presentation.
Distributed brief.
Discreet Q&A.
Learn more: efratsopher.com/focus/
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In Dublin this week, Jewish community leaders from across the world met with government envoys from 28 countries, with representatives from at least seven international organizations, and with executives from technology companies for the 15th meeting of the Special Envoys and Coordinators Combating Antisemitism (SECCA) Forum.
The Forum is organized by the WJC in partnership with the @EU_Commission and convened under 🇮🇪 Ireland’s rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union.
⚠️ Since the terror attacks of October 7, 2023, Jewish communities have been subjected to never-ending waves of hatred, violence, and ostracization from public life.
This meeting in Dublin is a much-needed opportunity to reset the conversation between Jewish organizations, governments, and technology companies, including about how to counter online hate.
Bravo and thank you @LordWalney
Government finally opens consultation on giving the Charity Commission greater powers to tackle extremism. Much needed - ministers must act firmly and swiftly gov.uk/government/consultati…
Thank you @Isaac_Herzog for supporting our important friendship with Azerbaijan and @presidentaz . Wishing you every success
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For two days in a row, the Houthis in Yemen have attacked an airport in Saudi Arabia, killing at least 14 people and injuring hundreds more in the two days.
@efratsopher a WJC Executive Committee member and Chair of the Board of Advisors at the Ezri Center for Iran and Gulf States Research, talked to @SkyNews about the latest advancements in the Houthis’ military tactics.
For years, when people asked how to engage me.
The answer was an email address and a conversation.
There is now somewhere to point them.
My site is live today, and with it a consultancy practice in Iran, Israel and Gulf security.
Strategic advisory, private briefings, track two convening, commissioned research, and keynotes. For governments weighing a regional decision, boards carrying financial exposure they cannot read clearly, conference programmers, and editors.
Take a look ->
efratsopher.com/
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اسحاق هرتزوگ، رییس‌جمهوری اسرائیل، از پیام همدردی شاهزاده رضا پهلوی با قربانیان حمله هفتم اکتبر قدردانی کرد و آن را نماد «دوستی عمیق» خواند.
نوید محبی، تحلیل‌گر سیاسی، گفت این پیام و واکنش هرتزوگ می‌تواند نشانه‌ای از ترسیم روابط ایران و اسرائیل پس از جمهوری اسلامی باشد. او افزود پیوند تاریخی ایرانیان و یهودیان، سابقه روابط دو کشور پیش از انقلاب و مخالفت افکار عمومی ایران با سیاست‌های ضداسرائیلی جمهوری اسلامی، زمینه بازگشت به روابط عادی را تقویت کرده است.
Thank you dear @TinaGhazimorad our two great nations have a bond and affinity that are truly remarkable
We mark the 3rd anniversary of the Oct 7 atrocities : the deadliest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, carried out by Hamas, an arm of the Islamic Republic’s octopus.
This catastrophic event exposes a broader, interconnected reality about the nature of our enemies and the true alignment of our allies:
1- The Jihadist Mindset: Like Hamas, who unleashed everything on Oct 7 knowing well the Israel’s response and cost on Gaza , these forces do not operate on logical profit-and-loss metrics. This proves that if the Islamic Republic acquires nuclear weapons, they will not hesitate to use them. The Islamic Republic must be destroyed.
2- Iranian-Jewish Biblical Bond: Amidst antisemitic demonstrations in Western cities, Iranians were the rare ones who stood firmly beside the Jewish people after Oct 7. This proves the 2,500-year-old biblical bond between Iranians and Jews remains as strong as steel.
3- Selective Justice: The sheer brutality of Oct 7 should have shaken the global conscience. Instead, antisemitism and selective justice blinded some Western media and governments. The same media that echoes Hamas’s propaganda stood silent during the slaughter of 50,000 Iranians on January 8–9 2026.
Iranians and Jews truly remain each other's best and truest friends.
4- Israel’s resilience: Despite these immense challenges, the resilience of Israel’s military, its people, and its economy throughout a three-year war is truly astonishing. Israel has proven itself to be an invincible military, security, and economic powerhouse.