Today was last day of conference. A day dedicated to dealing with the global rise of antisemitism. Head of Yad vashem Dani Dayan gave an opening lecture and we also had various breakout sessions . Mine was with a German psychologist who is Turkish muslim. Very interesting, lunch was a huge buffet of Israeli foods - we had sandwiches during the previous days, the afternoon was equally interesting and at times very emotional for the speakers. Michal Cotlef-Wunsh talked about Holocaust education In a post October 7 reality, followed by holocaust survivor Aharon Barak who ,in his 90s still gets emotional when he talks about his mother. The last part of conference was huge surprise. Idan Raichel who I have listened to for years, performed. Ironically, Reba and I already purchased tickets to see him at the Garden in September, Idan Raichel performed He also spoke about his personal experience with October 7, friends who were killed and he visiting the site only to be asked to sing. He too got quite emotional. He shared his whatsapp with us and I actually sent him a message about loving his music and how appreciative I was about his candor, he a actually responded with a voice message! Tomorrow Zoe and I will meet that sweet girl,Tamar, and her mom. Its Shabbat tomorrow afternoon and saturday night I head home
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