Un évènement qui marquera sans aucun doute les esprits. Le KKL avait vu les choses en grand. Vouloir louer le Palais Brongniart pour loger le plus grand évènement jamais organisé par cette ONG en France, il fallait un courage certain.
Et la foule estimée à 15 000 personnes était bien là au rendez-vous. (La sécurité, “Style El AL”, avec des agents de sécurité courtois qui questionnaient avec discernement les visiteurs un par un n’a pas gêné les visiteurs). Des milliers de juifs de France ont sillonné le Palais pour découvrir en famille les beautés du hightech israélien. Le plus étonnant dès l’arrivée des visiteurs : un drapeau israélien énorme flottait dans l’air. Un plateau de première qualité à réuni dans l’après midi les meilleurs orateurs Français et Israéliens. Claude Goasguen aura marqué les esprits avec un discours enflammé sur Israël.
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Jerusalem Post (Copyrights). Un article de Adélie Pojzman-Pontay : « The day-long conference, organized by Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael- Jewish National Fund in Paris on Sunday aspired to shed another light on life in Israel. It was the first time in 12 years that such an important event, featuring Israel, is organized in France, and more than 15,000 people attended.
In the last 10 years, a feeling of insecurity has surged among French Jews, following several acts of anti-Semitism, stemming from a climate of social unrest in France. French aliya rose by 63 percent in 2013. Efi Stenzler, world chairman of the KKL-JNF, told The Jerusalem Post that the Jewish community especially asked the organization to take the lead in the event, as it has always been a bridge between Israel and the Diaspora. Entitled “Israel today and tomorrow” the conference aimed to present the French public with the diversity of initiatives and achievements made by Israeli society today. Stenzler insisted that “the purpose of the exhibition is to show to the Jewish people, and to the non-Jewish people as well, the new and the real face of Israel.”
KKL-JNF wished to promote and publicize the wide scope of its action in the last 100 years. Exhibitions about the Hula Lake Park and the Adullam park presented the organization’s efforts to protect the environment as well as foster the ecological development of the State of Israel – by creating water reservoirs and planting trees.
Israeli entrepreneurs gathered to portray the variety and the vigorousness of research in Israel. From nanotechnology and environmentally friendly technologies to medical care and smartphone applications. Universities such as Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem were present, eager to present their latest research breakthroughs.
The political and social context, however, was omnipresent and officials spoke with one voice on the subject. Minister of Tourism Uzi Landau said “I’m here to express solidarity and meet the Jewish community of France at times when the old, classic anti-Semitism is surging again. Extremists try to undermine the right of the Jewish people to have a state of their own in Israel, but we are here, shoulder to shoulder, with the French Jews.”
Raymond Bunan, chairman of the KKL-JNF in France, said the conference was organized at the right moment, at a time when it was of specific importance to present Israel under a more positive light, in order to contrast with the “caricature” that is usually broadcast by the media ».
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