This event in Southern California has been established to honor former APN National Co-Chair Jerry Bubis, who has stepped down from the Board of Directors.
Join us for the lecture event featuring keynote speaker Ambassador Marwan Muasher, as well as the dinner to precede it where a special presentation will be made to Jerry inaugurating this annual event.
RSVP INFORMATION & RESPONSE CARD
Friday, July 29, 8:00 a.m., Factor's Deli, Los Angeles
"Loving Israel in Challenging Times" with Daniel Sokatch, CEO of New Israel FundThis New Israel Fund event is co-sponsored by Americans for Peace Now, J Street Los Angeles and Meretz-USA
Tuesday, August 16, 8:00 a.m., Los Angeles Location TBA
Breakfast Program with Dan Simon, USC Professor of Law and Psychology; Served as a Major in the Israeli Air Force, and as a staff attorney for the Assn. for Civil Rights in Israel. Dan will have just returned from a visit to Israel and the region
TO BE RESCHEDULED - The Breakfast Program with Gregory Khalil had to unfortunately be cancelled. We will look forward to another opportunity to hear from the President and Co-Founder of The Telos Group in Washington, D.C.
Israel's Peace Imperative
Monday, May 2, 2011, 7:00 P.M.
Hillel UW
4745 17th Ave NE Seattle
206-527-1997
RSVP to (323) 934-3480 or apnwest@peacenow.org
With the Middle East experiencing a democratic awakening, the future looks both hopeful and uncertain, while the need for Israel to move forward on a path towards peace and strengthening its democracy is more crucial than ever.
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As General Director of Peace Now, Oppenheimer is Israel's leading advocate for a sustainable resolution to the Israeli-Arab conflict that provides for Israel's security and is consistent with Israel as a Jewish state and a democracy. Towards this end, Oppenheimer and Peace Now support bringing a negotiated end to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and the implementation of a "two-state solution" for Israel and Palestine.
Oppenheimer is one of the most significant political figures in contemporary Israeli society. He speaks throughout the country and internationally, is regularly interviewed and cited by the Israeli and foreign press, and is a frequent interviewee on radio and television broadcasts.
Born in Tel Aviv in 1976, Oppenheimer was just 18 years old and newly conscripted into the Israeli Army when he attended the 1995 peace rally in Tel Aviv where Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was killed. Oppenheimer says "that night made me more committed and eager to continue my activity and to fight for peace." Fifteen short years later, he now sits at the highest level of peace activism by leading the Israeli Peace Now Movement, the very same organization that coordinated that fateful rally in 1995.
Oppenheimer was Commander of New Recruits in the Israeli Defense Forces (1995-98), Youth Department Director of the Israeli Labour Party (1998-2002), and has a Law & Public Policy Degree from the College of Interdisciplinary Center of Learning in Herzliya.
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