Israeli officials exhorted American Jews to show solidarity by visiting Israel, where the tourism industry has been devastated by the surge of violence. “Come to Israel, not only because our hotel rooms are empty, but because we don’t want our hearts to be empty,” Yuli Tamir, Israel’s minister of absorption, told a crowd of 5,000 attending a Chicago solidarity rally.
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