Posts Tagged ‘avraham’

Avraham Duvdevani approved to serve as global chairman of KKL-JNF

Avraham Duvdevani, who for the past decade has served as chairman of the World Zionist Organization, has been officially approved to serve as global chairman of KKL-JNF.  The organization is not exactly new to him. While heading the WZO, he was also its co-chairman.He was voted into office by the newly elected board.Born in Jerusalem […]

Meet Avraham Duvdevani, the dedicated settler advocate now in charge of the Jewish National Fund

After an unusually fierce debate within key Zionist institutions, the World Zionist Organisation (WZO) has officially confirmed that its outgoing chair, Avraham Duvdevani, of the religious Mizrachi slate, has been elected as the new global chairperson of the KKL-JNF.  Duvdevani replaces Danny Atar, a former Zionist Union MK, whose campaign for a second-term at KKL-JNF […]

Avraham Burg speaks at Temple Israel in Boston

Avraham Burg spoke last Tuesday at Temple Israel in Brookline, Massachusetts, on a tour to promote his latest book, In Days to Come, sponsored also by the New Israel Fund. The night before, he was at B’nai Jeshurun in Manhattan (see this recent summary of that event on this website). I didn’t go so much to […]

In calling for end of Jewish state, Avraham Burg is painted as ‘troublemaker’ at liberal NY synagogue

In a new book, the Israeli writer and politician Avraham Burg has come out for a one-state solution entailing federated Jewish and Palestinian political entities, and on Monday night he was hosted by the progressive New York synagogue B’nai Jeshurun and the New Israel Fund to talk about his ideas. The most significant element of the […]

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