Welcome to the program for Limmud Oz Melbourne 2025!
Join us for an immersive weekend festival of Jewish ideas and culture, with >100 presenters and sessions to choose from. From Ben-Gurion to bagels, Yentl to yoga, we always have something for everyone. Limmud is an opportunity for you to cultivate a personal Jewish experience and learn from presenters you might never come across otherwise.
Drawing from in-depth statistical analysis, the session will reveal that the figures released by the Hamas-run Health Ministry were engineered to support a narrative of overwhelming civilian suffering. This is not just a statistical distortion, but a moral one as misleading data has turned civilian tragedy into a powerful weapon of hybrid warfare. By manipulating fatality statistics, Hamas has shaped international opinion, fuelled diplomatic pressure, and framed legal narratives - while concealing its own role in the conflict. Lewi Stone argues that Hamas’s greatest strategic victory since October 7 has been its domination of the information war.
Lewi Stone is a Professor of Mathematical Biology in the Faculty of Life Sciences at Tel Aviv University where he has worked for 20 years, and Math Department at RMIT University.
