At the end of October, Director General of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress Dr. Haim Ben Yakov met the Ambassador of Uzbekistan to Israel Feruza Mahmudova.

Dr. Ben Yakov expressed the EAJC’s interest in increasing the level of interaction with Jewish diaspora organizations in Uzbekistan, including conduction of joint cultural and research projects.

An agreement was reached to work out a number of promising bilateral projects in the cultural, humanitarian and educational spheres.