Eran Lerman, the director of the American Jewish Committee’s Israeli office, has been speaking in the Bay Area this past week.

Lerman, a former colonel in the Israeli Defense Forces intelligence division, made a pair of speeches in San Francisco, and he met with local leaders from the AJCommittee and other Jewish community groups.

Lerman offered his impressions on the prevailing trends in the Arab and Muslim world.

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