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Participants International Consultation of Jewish Parliamentarians Jerusalem, 27-29 June 2011 PAR TICIPANTS PARLIAMENTARIANS Rep. Gary Ackerman - House of Representatives, United States M.K. Rachel Adatto - The Knesset, Israel Mr. Mark Adler - House of Commons, Canada Mr. David Alcolumbre - Câmara dos Deputados, Brazil M.K. Chaim Amsellem - The Knesset, Israel Mr. Franck Attal - Ville de Gournay-sur-Marne, France M.K. Doron Avital - The Knesset, Israel Ms. Luciana Berger - House of Commons, United Kingdom Mr. Jean Boccara - Ville de Charenton-le-Pont, France Senator Samuel Cabanchik - Senado de la Nación Argentina, Argentina Mr. Boriss Cilevics - Saeima, Latvia Prof. Irwin Cotler - House of Commons, Canada Senator Alberto Couriel - Cámara de Senadores , Uruguay Mr. Michael Danby - Federal Parliament, Australia Baroness Ruth Deech - House of Lords, United Kingdom Mr. Tamás Deutsch - European Parliament M.K. Yuli Edelstein - The Knesset, Israel Senator Péter Eckstein-Kovács - Senate, Romania Senator Alexandru Radu Feldman - Senate, Romania Mr. Oleksandr Feldman - Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine Mr. Emanuele Fiano - Chamber of Deputies, Italy Mr. Luis Fishman Zonzinski - Asamblea Legislativa de Costa Rica, Costa Rica Mr. János Fónagy - Ministry of National Development, Hungary Senator Linda Frum - Senate, Canada Mr. Bernard Gahnassia - Association of Elected Friends of Israel, France Mr. Oleg Geyman - Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine M.K. Shai Hermesh - The Knesset, Israel M.K. Itsik Herzog - The Knesset, Israel M.K. Nitzan Horowitz - The Knesset, Israel Lord Greville Janner - House of Lords, United Kingdom Prof. Dr. Daniel Jositsch - Nationalrat / Conseil National, Switzerland Mr. Zarko Korac - National Assembly, Serbia Dr. Tamás Kovács - Ministry of National Development, Hungary M.K. Limor Livnat - The Knesset, Israel Rep. Nita Lowey - House of Representatives, United States Mr. Claude-Gérard Marcus - Assemblée nationale, France M.K. Avraham Michaeli - The Knesset, Israel Rep. Jerrold Nadler - House of Representatives, United States Mrs. Fiamma Nirenstein - Chamber of Deputies, Italy Mrs. Gergana Passy - National Assembly, Bulgaria Dr. Solomon Passy - National Assembly, Bulgaria Mr. Antonio Pereira Pesaro - House of Representatives of São Paolo, Brazil Ms. Sandra Piszk - Asamblea Legislativa de Costa Rica, Costa Rica M.K. Yohanan Plesner - The Knesset, Israel Mr. Claudio Presman - Parliament of Buenos Aires, Argentina M.K. Reuven Rivlin - The Knesset, Israel Mrs. Beatriz Rojkes de Alperovich - Senado de la Nación Argentina, Argentina Mr. Alessandro Ruben - Chamber of Deputies, Italy M.K. Gideon Sa’ar - The Knesset, Israel Ministry of Transport and Telecommunication, Czech Mr. Jaromir Schling - Republic M.K. Nachman Shai - The Knesset, Israel M.K. Meir Sheetrit - The Knesset, Israel Mr. Gabriel Silber - Congreso Nacional de Chile, Chile Dr. Pál Steiner - National Assembly, Hungary Senator John Sudarsky Rosenbaum - Congress of the Republic of Colombia, Colombia Dr. Tibor Szanyi - National Assembly, Hungary M.K. Moshe Ya’alon - The Knesset, Israel Mrs. Masha Taitelbaum Yoselewich - Asamblea Legislativa de Costa Rica, Costa Rica Mrs. Viviane Teitelbaum-Hirsch - Parliament of the Brussels Capital Region, Belgium Ms. Elena Tevdoradze - Parliament of Georgia, Georgia Dr. Aurel Vainer - Chamber of Deputies, Romania Rep. Henry Waxman - House of Representatives, United States M.K. Einat Wilf - The Knesset, Israel Dr. Emanuelis Zingeris - Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, Lithuania GUESTS Mr. Khaled Abu Toameh - The Jerusalem Post, Israel Mrs. Alcolumbre - Brazil Mr. Yitzhak Avidani - World Jewish Congress Israel Mr. Avi Balashnikov - Israel Mr. Mitchell Barak - Office of the President of Israel Amb. Rafael Barak - Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Israel Mr. Nir Barkat - Mayor of Jerusalem Mr. Ran Bar-Yoshafat - World Jewish Diplomatic Corps Dr. Haim Ben Yakov - Euro-Asian Jewish Congress H.E. Ms. Maria Elisa Berenguer - Embassy of Brazil to Israel Institute of the World Jewish Congress Mr. Nir Boms - & World Jewish Diplomatic Corps H.E. Mr. Rodrigo Xavier Carreras Jiménez - Embassy of Costa Rica to Israel Mr. Daniel Chertoff - World Jewish Congress Israel Mr. Chanan Cohen - Institute of the World Jewish Congress Ms. Linor Deutsch - The Knesset, Israel Mr. Howard Diamond - United States of America Mr. Michael Dickson - Stand With Us Israel Mr. Daniel Diker - World Jewish Congress Mr. Eduard Dolinsky - Ukrainian Jewish Committee Ms. Betty Ehrenberg - World Jewish Congress North America Mrs. Clara Fassler - Uruguay Ms Julie Feinberg - World Jewish Congress Mr. Lior Gabay - World Jewish Congress Israel H.E. Mr. & Mrs. Isaac Gilinski Sragowicz - Embassy of Colombia to Israel World Jewish Congress Mrs. Helena Glaser - & Women’s International Zionist Organization Mr. Elhanan Glazer - Knesset Forum on International Relations, Israel Mrs. Perla Gilinski - Colombia Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Goldberger - Embassy of the United States of America to Israel Ms Michal Grayevsky - Israel Mr. Michael Gribov - Knesset Forum on International Relations, Israel Mr. Sam Grundwerg - World Jewish Congress Ms. Simone Hartmann - Stop the Bomb World Jewish Congress Dr. Lior Herman - & World Jewish Diplomatic Corps Mr. Pinchas Inbari - Jerusalem Centre for Public Afairs H.E. Mr. Edward Iosiper - Embassy of Romania to Israel Mrs. Ruth Kaplan - International Council of Jewish Parliamentarians Mrs. Flo Kaufmann - World Jewish Congress Mr. Herb Keinon - The Jerusalem Post, Israel Prof. Aharon Kleiman - Israel Council on Foreign Relations International Association of Jewish Lawyers Mrs. Irit Kohn - and Jurists Amb. Ronald S. Lauder - World Jewish Congress Office of Lord Janner of Braunstone, House of Lords, Mr. Adam Langleben - United Kingdom Prof. Ruth Lapidoth - Israel Council on Foreign Relations Mr. Howard Liebman - Office of Prof. Cotler, House of Commons, Canada Prime Minister’s Office / Ministry of Strategic Affairs, Mr. Shalom Lipner - Israel Ms. Lisa Levy - World Jewish Diplomatic Corps Mr. Stephen Lowey - United States of America Mr. John Malkinson - World Jewish Congress Ms. Lilach Meir - National Union of Israeli Students Ms. Maureen Meyer-Adiri - World Jewish Diplomatic Corps H.E. Mr. Joaquín Montes Larraín - Embassy of Chile to Israel Minister Ya’akov Ne’eman - Ministry of Justice, Israel Mr. Terry Newman - World Jewish Diplomatic Corps Amb. Mordechai Palzur - Institute of the World Jewish Congress Mr. Ashley Perry - Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel H.E. Mr. Martin Perts - Embassy of Latvia to Israel Mr. Peleg Reshef - World Jewish Diplomatic Corps Mr. Jorge Riccombeni - Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Argentina Mr. Eyal Raviv - World Jewish Diplomatic Corps Mr. Avraham Roet - Institute of the World Jewish Congress, Israel Mr. D.J. Schneeweiss - Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Israel Mr. Jay Schultz - World Jewish Diplomatic Corps Mr. Udi Segal - Channel 2, Israel Mr. Ariel Seidler - World Jewish Congress Latin America Ms. Tamar Shchory - World Jewish Congress, Israel Ms Yvette Shumacher - Institute of the World Jewish Congress Mr. Itzik Shmuli - National Union of Israeli Students, Israel Mr. Gábor Simon - Embassy of Hungary to Israel Mr. Tamara Sous - World Jewish Diplomatic Corps Mr. Milutin Stanojevic - Embassy of Serbia to Israel Prof. Gerald Steinberg - NGO Monitor, Israel H.E. Mr. Yuri Sterk - Embassy of Bulgaria to Israel Dr. Maram Stern - World Jewish Congress Ms. Margot Stern - World Jewish Diplomatic Corps H.E. Mr. Zoltán Szentgyörgyi - Embassy of Hungary to Israel Mr. Mendy Tal - Office of Mr. Pesaro, Brazil Ms. Esther Tjepkema - Platform Israel Prof. Alfred Tovias - Israel Council on Foreign Relations Mr. Yigal Tzahor - World Jewish Congress Israel Mrs. Waxman - United States of America Mr. Laurence Weinbaum - Israel Council for Foreign Relations Mrs. Edna Weinstock-Gabay - World Jewish Congress Mr. Avi Widerman - World Jewish Congress Israel Ms Oranit Wiener - World Jewish Congress Mr. Yevgen Zvonkov - Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine .
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