Euro-Asian Jewish Congress leaders took part in a session of the World Jewish Congress Executive Committee that took place in Madrid. The forum was partly related to the Spain future presidency of the Council of the European Union on July 1 and either the national plan to implement the European Strategy to Combat Antisemitism for 2023-2030 that Spain also approved last month.
Euro-Asian Jewish Congress high delegation consisted of EAJC President Dr. Michael Mirilashvili and EAJC Board Chairman Aaron G. Frenkel, EAJC Director General Dr. Haim Ben Yakov and EAJC
treasurer Menachem Bushuev held a meetings in Madrid with the King of Spain His Majesty Felipe VI, the country’s Foreign Ministry, high Spain diplomacy, ambassadors accredited in Madrid as well as a group of Government commissioners to combat anti-Semitism in the UN, Council of Europe, European Union, USA and Germany.
During the Summit in Madrid EAJC leaders also held a work meetings with Russian and Ukrainian Jewish Community leaders, where the actual humanitarian emergency issues were discussed.
At the official ceremony with the King of Spain Philip VI, in the presence of the President of the World Jewish Congress R. Lauder, after pronouncing the traditional blessing received at the meeting with the monarch, and words of gratitude for the hospitality, EAJC President Dr. Michael Mirilashvili said:
“As Israel develops, the worldwide Jewish community sees the Jewish state as a source of inspiration. The long-standing dream of Israel as the center of the Jewish world, a light source for the Jewish diaspora and the peoples of the world, has ceased to be just a dream and has all the means to realize it. The stronger the State of Israel becomes, the more responsibility it bears for the safety and well-being of the entire Jewish people. It is not enough just to talk about anti-Semitism. Today, the Jewish world needs a strong, reliable and cohesive Jewish state, ready to generously share innovations, cultural and scientific achievements with the world community.
Israeli innovative technologies make the world a better place, allow solving the problems of ecology, healthcare, agriculture and food security, solving, at the same time, the refugee problem that is relevant in modern Europe. New technologies make it possible to provide poor states with the opportunity to produce enough water and food and, thus, provide the population with everything they need in their homeland. I urge Jewish philanthropists, world leaders and political institutions to join forces to solve the universal problems of humanity.”
Photo credit: WJC/Shahar Azran
