Events

On May 1, 2006, MK Colette Avital spoke at Beit Shalom to a select group of Ameinu and Meretz Board members. MK Avital, one of the most distinguished diplomats in the Israeli foreign service, has been Ambassador to Portugal and Consul General of New York. Twelfth on the Labor Party list, MK Avital will be part of the next governing coalition. Currently, she chairs the Ethics Committee and the Parliamentary Inquiry Committee for the Location and Restitution of Property of Holocaust Victims. Her articles have appeared in the New York Times, New York Post and the Forward. She has also recently started with Abu Vilan the One Home or “Bait Echad” campaign, which aims to compensate Israeli settlers who voluntarily move back behind the pre-1967 borders.

Click for a summary of her remarks.