American Hellenic and American Jewish communities will embark on their second Leadership Mission comprised of 12 community leaders to Israel, Cyprus, and Greece.
According to a press release by the American Hellenic Institute (AHI), the trip begins on January 10, in Jerusalem, Israel, continues in Nicosia, Cyprus, on January 13 to 14 and concludes in Athens, Greece, on January 14 to 19.
“The four organizations will look to build upon its historic, initial groundbreaking three-country Leadership Mission that occurred January 2014, which the organizations hailed”, says the announcement.
AHI will be represented on the trip by President Nick Larigakis and Board Member Aleco Haralambides.
According to the press release, the strategic relationship between Greece, Cyprus, and Israel has evolved, helping to lend stability to the eastern Mediterranean region.
The delegation of American Hellenic and American Jewish community leaders, aims to explore the major political, economic (business and tourism), and security developments underway in the eastern Mediterranean with high-ranking government officials from each of the three countries and visits to military installations. The joint 12-member delegation also represents broad Diaspora support for the trilateral relationship.
The initiative represents the ongoing organizational cooperation between the American Hellenic and American Jewish communities, the American Hellenic Institute (AHI), a Greek American public policy center and think tank, the American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association (AHEPA), a leading membership-based grassroots association for American citizens of Hellenic heritage and Philhellenes, B’nai B’rith International, a worldwide Jewish community service organization widely known as one of the world`s most influential humanitarian, human rights and advocacy organizations and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, a central coordinating body for American Jewry, representing 52 national Jewish agencies from across the political and religious spectrums.