UK MI6 Chief Blaise Metreweli warned: “AI-driven robots and drones are transformative for mass production, but catastrophic when weaponized. Breakthroughs capable of curing disease can just as easily be turned into tools of war. Power is becoming increasingly diffuse and unpredictable, as control over these technologies shifts away from governments and into the hands of corporations — and in some cases, individuals.”

Prime Minister Netanyahu, speaking at the Second Hanukkah Candle Lighting with IDF soldiers and U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee at the Western Wall, said: “If the Maccabees had failed, there would be no Huckabees, no Judeo-Christian civilization, and no United States.”