The American Council for World Jewry brings together dozens of prominent mayors from every corner of the globe in Israel, every year.
The Israel International Mayors Conference enables participants from different countries to have direct contact with mayors from Israel and from all over the world, affording an opportunity to network and share professional know-how with leading experts in urban development. The participating mayors will have an opportunity to focus on vital issues that are common to all cities and to exchange spe
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.
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.
10/26/2015
10/21/2015
Mayors in Haifa
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,
10/19/2015