Israel 60th Birthday Presidential Conference - "Facing Tomorrow" To Begin Tuesday in Jerusalem

JERUSALEM, May 12 /PRNewswire/ -- The idea could only have started with Israel's President Shimon Peres, the man who has witnessed up close and personally more historic events during Israel's first six decades of statehood than arguably any other person alive today, going back to 1948 when he was one of founding Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion's closest, and youngest advisers.

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Peres decided last year that it was not enough to review the Jewish State's achievements, challenges and milestones reflectively. Rather, the emphasis for Israel must be on looking forward.

Thus was conceived the first annual Israel Presidential Conference, a three-day unparalleled assembly of some of the world's "best and brightest," including equally large representations of Presidents and Prime Ministers to be fully represented at the gathering in Jerusalem, Israel from May 13 to May 15.

In attendance, in addition to many national presidents and heads of state will be dignitaries from the worlds of business and academia. Among them are Sergey Brin, founder of Google and Susan Decker of Yahoo. Dr. Miriam and Sheldon Adelson will be serving as the honorary chairpersons for the Israel 60th Birthday Presidential Conference.

The entire cost of the Facing Tomorrow Israel Presidential Conference has been raised privately through a historic fundraising initiative chaired by Elliott Broidy, Chairman of Markstone Capital Partners and supported by a committee of two-dozen business people from across the international community.

US President George W. Bush will be a headline guest of the Facing Tomorrow conference, serving as keynote speaker at a celebratory dinner marking 60 years of Israel - American friendship.

The Israel President's Conference has been identified by Israel President Shimon Peres as the ideal avenue to communicate Israel's many accomplishments to the international community.

The JPPPI, an independent think tank, supported in part by the Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI), is the organizational body responsible for the conference. Israel Maimon, Israel's former Cabinet Secretary is the Conference Chairman and Israel Ambassador Avi Gil is the Director of Conference Content.

Senior statesmen and world leaders scheduled to attend include Dr. Henry Kissinger, former US Secretary of State, Va'clav Havel, former President of the Czech Republic, Mikhail Gorbachev, former President of the USSR, Wahid Abdurraham, former President of Indonesia and Tony Blair, former Prime Minister of the UK.

    
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