AIJAC/Rambam Program/2023
  AIJAC/Rambam Program/2023  | |
|---|---|
| Membership | • Sussan Ley • Julian Leeser • Jenny Ware • Hollie Hughes • Dean Shachar • James McGrath • John Lee • Ben Packham • Caroline Di Russo • Eliza Edwards • Gemma Tognini • Nicholas Jensen • Patrick Elligett • Tom Minear |
| A junket "fact-finding trip" to Israel for a large number of selected Australian journalists, politicians, political advisers, government officials, trade union officials, student leaders, and academics. | |
The Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) arranges a large number of junkets "fact-finding trips" to Israel for selected journalists, politicians, political advisers, government officials, trade union officials, student leaders, and academics through its Rambam Israel Fellowship Program[1][2] There are a number of associated programs doing very similar things, not all of them arranged by AIJAC, for example the Australia Israel Leadership Forum, the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies Journalists Mission, Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce and etc. For practical reasons, these programs are listed here under the heading Rambam Programs.
Participants
The participants are sent from several programs every year,[3][4][5] but only a very few are made public.
Politics
- Scott Buchholz — LNP, MP for Wright
- Raff Ciccone — Labor, senator for Victoria
- Cassandra Fernando — Labor, MP for Holt
- Hollie Hughes
- Julian Leeser - MP
- Sussan Ley, deputy leader of the Opposition
- Sussan Ley's Chief of Staff Dean Shachar
- Senator James McGrath
- Anne Webster — National, MP for Mallee
- Jenny Ware — Liberal, MP for Hughes
- Keith Wolahan — Liberal, MP for Menzies
Corporate media
- Eliza Edwards — Nine News political reporter
- Patrick Elligett — The Age editor
- Nicholas Jensen — The Australian opinion editor
- Tom Minear — News Corp US correspondent
- Ben Packham — The Australian foreign affairs and defence correspondent
- Caroline Di Russo — News Corp columnist
- Gemma Tognini — The Australian columnist
Other
- John Lee, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute.
References
- ↑ https://aijac.org.au/about-aijac/
- ↑ Reich, Chanan (2004). "Inside AIJAC - An Australian Jewish Lobby Group". In Levey, Geoffrey; Mendes, Philip (eds.). Jews and Australian Politics. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press. pp. 198–214. ISBN 1-903900-72-7.
- ↑ https://www.jwire.com.au/rambam-participants-report-on-their-experiences/
- ↑ https://www.australianjewishnews.com/impressions-of-israel-2/
- ↑ https://www.amust.com.au/2023/12/which-australian-journalists-and-politicians-have-gone-on-trips-to-israel-and-palestine/
