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11-Year-Old Ben Carasso Launches Campaign, Wins Resilience Award

4/23/2026

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Eleven-year-old Ben Carasso launched a social-media campaign that gives Israeli children a public voice.
He began posting about antisemitism after the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attacks in Israel.
Carasso has endured antisemitic threats online, including Holocaust imagery urging him to “go back to Auschwitz.”
He traveled to Australia, where he met Jewish children including Summer Britvan, received the Jewish Agency’s Resilience Award and served as Israel’s youngest Independence Day torchbearer.

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Story summary

Eleven-year-old Ben Carasso launched a social-media campaign that gives Israeli children a public voice.
He began posting about antisemitism after the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attacks in Israel.
Carasso has endured antisemitic threats online, including Holocaust imagery urging him to “go back to Auschwitz.”
He traveled to Australia, where he met Jewish children including Summer Britvan, received the Jewish Agency’s Resilience Award and served as Israel’s youngest Independence Day torchbearer.