64:{"position":4,"content":"$65"} 66:{"position":5,"content":"Earlier this year, StandWithUs students at the university organized the four-day Student Conference on International Law (SCIL), with over 50 participants from 24 countries. Leading professionals such as former Supreme Court president Meir Shamgar, Justice Elyakim Rubinstein, Channel 2 senior commentator Ehud Ya’ari and former ambassador to Canada Alan Baker spoke to the visiting students about various legal issues in the context of the Israeli-Arab conflict. The myriad international laws that pertain to warfare are complicated: When can an army fire on civilians? What is a disproportionate response to terror? How do soldiers in uniform fight an enemy that hides in residential areas?"} 67:{"position":6,"content":"The conference was a resounding success, and the follow-up was swift. Prof. Dr. Vladimir Vodinelic, dean of law at the Union University Belgrade, wrote in an email to the Hebrew University students that the Serbian students had been impressed by the conference program and its speakers. Moreover, he wrote, they were “overwhelmed with the students who organized it and consequently came with the idea of inviting them to Belgrade.”"} 68:{"position":7,"content":"Vodinelic suggested that a reciprocal conference would serve to familiarize more Serbian students with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the concomitant international law issues, as well as serving as a basis for cooperation in the future. Even temperatures of minus 1ºC at midday in Belgrade couldn’t dampen the Jerusalem students’ enthusiasm, and soon Facebook messages were flying across the world. A SCIL participant from England joined in, funding was raised through StandWithUs, the Israeli Embassy in Belgrade and Direct Capital Serbia CEO Gili Dekel, and another conference was born."} 69:{"position":8,"content":"“Our hosts could not have been warmer,” says Sidelle Peled, one of the Israelis in the delegation. “We stayed with students who had been in Je

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Invited by Union University Belgrade, Hebrew University law students traveled to Serbia to counter misinformation about the Jewish state.

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