Eighteen participants at the Keren Kayemet LeIsrael – Jewish National Fund and the World Zionist Organization's Zionist Leadership Academy program came to Israel to express solidarity at a time of war, the organizations announced.
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The participants met senior IDF and government officials, survivors of the Oct. 7 attack, wounded soldiers and civilians and the doctors who treated them, and also visited the Gaza periphery towns and communities and helped with the harvest. The delegation also participated in a tree-planting ceremony in Ben Shemen Forest By Jerusalem.
"These people are the best among Jewish leadership, it is important for us to show them what happened and that they will know how to tell the truth to the countries where they grew up and in which they live among the Jewish community and the whole world," Ariel Goldgewicht, who initiated the program and manages the Pioneer Youth and Next Generation division at the World Zionist Organization, said.
Esti Goldwasser, head of Keren Kayemet LeIsrael – Jewish National Fund international relations and external affairs, described the participants as "academics, people of free professions, high-tech entrepreneurs, diplomats and others who hold key roles in Jewish communities in their countries and are also devoted Zionists, who at times of war come here to show solidarity. Many of them hold activities to support Israel in different languages using the local media in the countries and on social networks."
