The Lid Is Running On Herut Slate For The 2020 World Zionist Congress PLEASE VOTE

On Tuesday, January 21st, voting began for the U.S. Delegation for the 38th World Zionist Congress (WZC). Voters do no select individual people; instead, they vote for one of the fifteen candidate slates. Yours truly, Jeff Dunetz (The Lid) is honored to be running to represent American Jewish Zionists as part of the Herut Slate.#10

If You Are American And Jewish Please Click Here And Vote, For Herut: Slate #10

I am running because as patriotic American, a Jew whose faith is important to him, and as a lover of the state of Israel who recognizes that the survival of Israel is vital to the future of the United States and the Jewish people.  Participating as part of the WZC, and particularly Herut is a way to help guarantee those futures.

The Herut Slate is comprised of 108 dedicated, Unapologetic Zionists representing every sector of American Jewry –women and men, secular to religious Zionists, and all in between. The Herut slate include Jewish leaders, Israel activists, former Lone Soldiers, journalists and authors, and rabbis from all denominations, (and one bald blogger known as The Lid)  Herut is actively engaged in fighting antisemitism, anti-Israel and BDS activity on college campuses; training Jews and Jewish communities on security; assisting IDF and Lone Soldiers; protecting the integrity and sovereignty of all of Israel, including Judea and Samaria.

If You Are American And Jewish Please Click Here And Vote, For Herut: Slate #10

What first impressed me about Herut was when a rash of horrible anti-Semitic incidents struck the New York City area they immediately created a Synagogue Security Kit which they offered free to congregations across America. Herut acted!

Allow me to tell you a bit about the WZC. This is the same Congress, the “Parliament of the Jewish People,” started by Theodor Herzl in 1897.  Now it convenes every 5 years in Jerusalem. The WZC oversees a budget of $1billion a year for the five years until the next Congress. Its members will vote on the allocation of funds and programming in Israel and throughout the world.

The WZC is the overall supreme ideological and policy-making body of the Zionist movement. The delegates to the WZC determine the leadership and influence the policies of some of the most essential Zionist organizations worldwide. They include the World Zionist Organization (WZO), the Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI), Jewish National Fund-Keren Kayemet LeIsrael (JNF) and Keren Hayesod – which together allocate nearly $1 billion annually in funding in support of Israel and Jewish communities around the world.