NEWS Italian Delegates Participate in the World Jewish Congress Plenary Assembly

WJCBy Adam Smulevich

Over 600 representatives of Jewish Communities from all over the world are attending the Plenary Assembly of the World Jewish Congress which opened yesterday in New York.
The Plenary Assembly, which is the supreme decision-making body of the WJC, has been receiving reports about the situation of Jewish communities worldwide and discussing major issues; including anti-Semitism and the rise of extremist political movements.

The delegates (among them, from Italy, the President of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities Noemi Di Segni, UCEI Counsellor Giacomo Moscati, WJC Vicepresident Cobi Benatoff) will also elect the WJC leadership for the coming four-year term. Current WJC President Ronald S. Lauder is standing for re-election.

Other speakers at the event include UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova, US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley (tbc), Israeli Minister of Intelligence and of Transportation Yisrael Katz; Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon, US Representatives Eliot Engel, Nita Lowey and Lee Zeldin, European Commission Coordinator on Combating Anti-Semitism Katharina von Schnurbein, as well as the Jewish Nobel Prize laureates Roald Hoffmann (Chemistry), Daniel Kahneman (Economics) and Eric Kandel (Medicine).

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