EVENTS & ACTIVITIES

September 16, 2015

FOII Annual Board Meeting 2015 in Dallas

 

On 16-18 September, FOII held the Annual Board Members Meeting in Dallas, Texas. The Board Members celebrated the Fifth Anniversary of the Friends of Israel Initiative and drew the lines of the Initiative for the next years to come, among other issues.

 


For two days, Board Members attended panels and lectures on paramount issues regarding the Israel right’s to exist and its international position such as the bad deal with Iran, the BDS movement or the lawfare strategy against Israeli officials and leaders. Board Members also celebrated the fifth anniversary of the Initiative and discussed on the agenda for the current and the coming challenges that Israel and the Western world are facing.

 

FOII also welcomed in Dallas the new Board Members that have joined the Initiative in 2015: John Baird, former Foreign Minister of Canada; Alexandr Vondra, former Foreign and Defense Minister of Czech Republic; Uri Rosenthal, former Foreign Minister of Holland; Vikran Sood, former Head of the RAW, the Indian Foreign Intelligence Agency; and Pierre Richard Prosper, former United States Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes.