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Created : December 02, 2022

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis met on December 1, 2022, at Megaros Maximos with the new Executive Director of the American Jewish Committee, Ted Deutch.

The Prime Minister underlined the excellent level of Greek-American relations, while making special reference to the importance of Greece's relations with Israel, which have assumed the character of strategic cooperation. Kyriakos Mitsotakis presented in detail to Mr. Deutch the initiatives Greece is undertaking and the infrastructure it is developing - with the FSRU in Alexandroupolis at the forefront - in order to become an energy hub in the wider region, thus contributing to Europe's stability, energy security and weaning off Russian fossil fuels.

Mr. Deutch's meeting with Kyriakos Mitsotakis is the AJC's new executive director's first contact with a foreign leader in his new capacity.

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Created : December 01, 2022

"Intolerance has no place in our societies - I am proud that Athens has always been and remains an ally of tolerance, personal freedom and security for all." With these words, the Mayor of Athens, Costas Bakoyiannis, welcomed to Athens more than 25 mayors from all over the world, who arrived in the Greek capital to participate in the 2^η World Summit of Mayors against Anti-Semitism - the most important meeting of local government representatives in the context of global actions against anti-Semitism. The first was hosted in March 2021 online by the city of Frankfurt.

This year's Synod, co-organized by the Municipality of Athens, the Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) and the Center for Jewish Impact, in collaboration with the Jewish Federations of North America.

The Synod began on Wednesday 30.11.2022, with the scheduled official dinner at the Hyatt hotel, at which - among others - speeches were made the President of the Republic, Mrs. Katerina Sakellaropoulou, the Deputy Prime Minister, Panagiotis Pikrammenos, the Mayor of Athens, Kostas Bakoyannis and the Mayor of New York, Eric Adams. On behalf of Greek Jewry, a greeting was addressed by President of KISE David Saltiel.

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Created : December 01, 2022

A collaboration of KISE and the Law Firm "Karatza & Partners" for the 200th anniversary of the Greek Revolution on the occasion of the Greek Presidency of IHRA

The collective volume "The Jews of Greece", (edited by Giorgos Antoniou – Evangelos Hekimoglou, published by Alexandria, Athens 2022) was presented at an event organized by the Central Jewish Council of Greece (KISE), on 29.11.2022, in Athens, at the Benakiti Museum, Piraeus Street.

The publication, sponsored by the Law Firm "Karatza & Associates", is one of the actions of KISE for the 200th anniversary of the Greek Revolution in the anniversary year 2021.

The book was presented by: The General Secretary of Religious Affairs George Kalantzis, the President of the Network for Reform in Greece and Europe, President of the EU Commission for the future of the welfare state, EU Commissioner and pr. Minister  Anna Diamantopoulou, and the editors of the publication George Antoniou, Assistant Professor of AUTH, and Evangelos Hekimoglou, PhD in Economic History.

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Created : November 30, 2022

By Athanasius Ellis

The close relationship and cooperation of the Jewish community with the Greek diaspora, as well as that of Israel with Greece and Cyprus, is underlined in an interview with "K" by the new head of the American Jewish Committee, Ted Deutsch, who exactly two months ago took over the leadership of the organization after a successful twelve-year term as a member of the House of Representatives.

As the chairman of the House subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa and at the same time as the founding chairman of the parliamentary group of the Greek-Israeli alliance of the Congress, he had taken the lead in promoting diplomatic initiatives, such as the creation of the "3+1" cooperation scheme that includes Greece, Cyprus, Israel and the USA.

Mr. Deutsch talks about the strategic value of Greece, which will continue to increase in the future due to the crucial role it now plays in terms of energy security amid the war in Ukraine and at the same time the importance of Alexandroupolis and the Gulf of Souda for regional stability and American interests in the region.

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