05/27/2016
Israel exercising the tenets of , as always, and this time - in Sri Lanka:
Israel provides disaster relief supplies to Sri Lanka 26 May 2016
Friendship between people - but more so between nations - is tested in times of need. We have every intention that this emergency aid would ease the recovery of the areas affected by the floods.
12/30/2015
Israel First Country to Respond to Kenya’s Plea for Help; Sends Food, Supplies to Flood Victims
Israel was the first country to respond to a Kenyan governor’s plea, after his region was engulfed by floods caused by El Niño rains, a Kenyan newspaper reported on Monday. Governor Okoth Obado said Israel donated to his Migori county in western Kenya some 100 bags of maize, 44 bags of beans, three…
12/21/2015
Go Israel!
US, Israel to co-develop technologies for first responders
Agreement between Israeli Public Security Ministry and the US Department of Homeland Security aims to better prepare both nations’ rescue forces.
12/16/2015
A new branch of the Technion Institute of Technology is opening in China. Israel continues to show why its nickname is start-up nation:
China Focus: China, Israel start construction of innovation-oriented college
GUANGZHOU, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- Construction began Wednesday on a technology institute cooperation between a Chinese and an Israeli university in south China.
11/30/2015
Rochester Mayor Lovely A. Warren reminisces on her trip to our Israel Mayors Conference and recounts the lessons she learned in Israel in an op-ed for a local paper:
Column: Rochester’s sister-city has much to teach
Last month, I had the opportunity to travel to Israel to attend the 30th International Conference of Mayors, organized by the Jewish American Congress,
11/23/2015
Congratulations to Mauricio Macri -- a participant of our 2014 mayor's conference -- for being elected as the next President of Argentina (below with AJCongress President/ACWJ Chairman Jack Rosen):
Argentina elections: Macri poised to be next President - CNN.com
A triumphant Mauricio Macri thanks supporters as results in Argentina's presidential runoff place him in the lead and Daniel Scioli concedes.
10/21/2015
Mayors at the Western Wall
10/20/2015
The Mayors and AJCongress President Jack Rosen with Benjamin Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו
10/20/2015
Here's is a small display of the mass media coverage our Israel Mayors Conference has garnered so far
De Blasio urges 'broken windows' strategy in Israel
City governments -- especially those in Europe -- must lead the global fight against anti-Semitism by banishing indifference and denouncing acts of hatred however small,