AIJAC/Rambam Programs/2016
  AIJAC/Rambam Programs/2016   | |
|---|---|
| Membership | • Lizzie Blandthorn • Colin Brooks • Don Nardella • Ros Spence • Marsha Thompson • Vicky Ward (Australia) • Paul Edbrooke • Nick Staikos • Gabrielle Williams • Lucy Turnbull • Diane Smith-Gander • Jillian Segal • Karen Penrose • Alison Deans • Belinda Hutchinson • Mike Baird • Andrew Scipione • Lucy Haslam |
| A junket "fact-finding trip" to Israel for a large number of selected Australian journalists, politicians, political advisers, government officials, trade union officials, student leaders, and academics. | |
The Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) arranges a large number of junkets "fact-finding trips" to Israel for selected journalists, politicians, political advisers, government officials, trade union officials, student leaders, and academics through its Rambam Israel Fellowship Program[1][2] There are a number of associated programs doing very similar things, not all of them arranged by AIJAC, for example the Australia Israel Leadership Forum, the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies Journalists Mission, Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce and etc. For practical reasons, these programs are listed here under the heading Rambam Programs.
Participants
The participants are sent from several programs.[3]
AIJAC Rambam Israel Fellowship Program [4]
- Victorian Labor MPs:
- Lizzie Blandthorn
- Colin Brooks (parlt sec. to premier)
- Don Nardella
- Ros Spence
- Marsha Thompson
- Vicky Ward
- Paul Edbrooke
- Nick Staikos
- Gabrielle Williams
Australia Israel Chamber of Commerce[5]
- Lucy Turnbull
- Diane Smith-Gander
- Jillian Segal (AICoC)
- Karen Penrose
- Alison Deans
- Belinda Hutchinson (Sydney University Chancellor)
35 senior businesswomen inc. the above
NSW Government Trade Delegation - March[6]
- NSW Premier Mike Baird
- NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione
- Lucy Haslam, medicinal cannabis campaigner
Others...?
References
- ↑ https://aijac.org.au/about-aijac/
- ↑ Reich, Chanan (2004). "Inside AIJAC - An Australian Jewish Lobby Group". In Levey, Geoffrey; Mendes, Philip (eds.). Jews and Australian Politics. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press. pp. 198–214. ISBN 1-903900-72-7.
- ↑ http://middleeastrealitycheck.blogspot.com/2009/03/ive-been-to-israel-too.html
- ↑ https://middleeastrealitycheck.blogspot.com/2016/05/they-also-serve-who-only-stand-and.html
- ↑ https://middleeastrealitycheck.blogspot.com/2016/05/ladies-who-rambam.html
- ↑ https://middleeastrealitycheck.blogspot.com/2016/03/magic-mike-does-upstart-nation-1.html
