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Published on 13 May 2016

Crif Executive Board in Israel meets with PM Netanyahu

During a very intense mission from May 3 to 6 2016, the delegation had many political meetings in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.

Many topics were discussed during the talks, including security and foreign Israeli policies, the BDS campaign, the evolution of anti-Semitism in France and Europe

The delegation met with Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of the State of Israel, Reuven Rivlin State President, Moshe Ya'alon, Defense Minister Gilad Erdan, Minister of Internal Security, Strategic Affairs in charge of diplomacy public, Naftali Bennett, Education Minister Natan Sharansky, chairman of the Jewish Agency, Ambassador Lars Faaborg-Andersen, head of delegation of the European Union to the State of Israel, Patrick Maisonnave, France's ambassador to Israel, members Eli Elalouf and Ayelet Nahmias-Verbinn, Marc Eisenberg, President of the Alliance Israelite Universelle and the Association Quality, Sam Pinto, President of the Alliance Israelite Universelle in Israel, and the Kiah Association, and Edouard Cukierman, founder of "Catalyst Funds".
 
Many topics were discussed during the talks, including security and foreign Israeli policies, the BDS campaign, the evolution of anti-Semitism in France and Europe, the French Foreign and European and integration of French in Israel.
 
The delegation attended the National Remembrance Day Ceremony for heroes and martyrs of the Holocaust, with the lighting of six torches memorial on the square in the Warsaw Ghetto at Yad Vashem.
 
The delegation, headed by Roger Cukierman, included Francis Kalifat, Yonathan Arfi and Gerard Unger, vice presidents of CRIF, Ariel Amar, Executive Board member, Nicole Bornstein, Auvergne Rhône Alpes CRIF's president in Lyon, Michèle Teboul, president of CRIF Marseille Provence, Marc Levy, representative of CRIF in Israel, Robert Ejnes, Executive Director and Eve Gani, Director of international Relations.