Dear Friends,

Tune in to our next WJC WebTalk today, July 21, at 11:00am ET/5:00pm CET, with special guest Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) Senior Fellow Dr. Emanuele Ottolenghi for a conversation on the continued threat posed by Hezbollah around the world, moderated by WJC Jewish Diplomatic Corps member Gabriel Buznick.

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Sincerely, 

Maram Stern
Executive Vice President

About Dr. Emanuele Ottolenghi

Dr. Emanuele Ottolenghi is a senior fellow at FDD and an expert at FDD’s Center on Economic and Financial Power (CEFP) focused on Hezbollah’s Latin America illicit threat networks and Iran’s history of sanctions evasion. His research has examined Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, including its links to the country’s energy sector and procurement networks. His areas of expertise also include the EU’s Middle East policymaking, transatlantic relations, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and Israel’s domestic politics. Prior to joining FDD, Emanuele headed the Transatlantic Institute in Brussels and taught Israel Studies at St. Antony’s College, Oxford University.

He is author of The Pasdaran: Inside Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Iran: The Looming Crisis, and Under a Mushroom Cloud: Europe, Iran and the Bomb. Emanuele blogs at The Hill. His columns have also appeared in leading outlets including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and London’s The Sunday Times. He obtained his PhD in political theory at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, preceded by undergraduate studies in political science at the University of Bologna.

Check back in on Wednesday:

Understanding the Case:
The AMIA Bombing, 26 Years Later
Featuring Miguel Bronfman
AMIA’s Legal Representative
Wednesday, July 22
11:00AM ET / 5:00PM CET
Moderated by WJC Jewish Diplomatic Corps member Vanessa Hites

About Miguel Bronfman:

Miguel Bronfman is an Argentine lawyer based in Buenos Aires, specializing in criminal and international law, and human rights. In 1998, he started to work in the criminal proceedings for the terrorist attack against the AMIA of July 18, 1994, and since 2008, he has led the legal team that represents AMIA on every judicial proceeding related to the case. In 2009, he submitted the case before the Supreme Court and obtained a favorable ruling, re-opening the case and allowing further investigations. He also led the legal action against the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) related to the AMIA case that the Argentine government signed with the Islamic Republic of Iran in 2013. The MOU, after a two-year legal process, was deemed unconstitutional and thus was never in effect. Miguel has written articles and opinion columns for national and international media and has lectured on the case and on terrorism in his own country, the United States, Canada, and Israel.

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