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Hong Kong to establish a Holocaust and Tolerance Resource Centre |
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Plans are in place to set up a centre in Hong Kong dedicated to promote education and awareness of the Holocaust. The Hong Kong Holocaust and Tolerance Resource Centre (HKHTC) main goal is to become a centre for scholars, teachers, students and the general public, to make accessible locally relevant material in Asia, specifically in Chinese.  The HKHTC will promote conferences, workshops, exhibits and remembrance events. Spearheaded by local resident Jeremy Amias, the non for profit organisation, will have eight board members. The centre has taken space in the Elsa High School resource room, where it has some artefacts, books and dedicated computers which students and teachers can use to access web-based materials. At some point in the future a more permanent home may be considered.
The centre will also be responsible for overseeing initiatives already established such as the Asian delegation to the March of the Living. It will be organising UN Holocaust Remembrance Day on 31 January to be held at the Jewish Community Centre. Featuring guest speaker Dr. Stephen Smith, a Holocaust specialist who has started and operated many different Holocaust memorial centres. He founded the UK Holocaust Centre and the Aegis Trust for Genocide Prevention and currently Executive Director, USC Shoah Foundation Institute, the archive of Holocaust survivor testimonies established in 1994. Please login or register to see the full article |
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Asian Fellowship programmes open in Israel |
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A new fellowship designed to build and invest in tomorrow’s leaders of Israel-Asia relations has opened in Israel. 
The Israel-Asia Leaders Fellowship, which was launched by the Jerusalembased Israel-Asia Center, is designed to supplement the university study programmes of Asian students studying in Israel, providing them with the high-level access, contacts, skill-set and support network necessary to build long-term, strategic partnerships between Israel and Asia throughout their future careers. The 12 fellows from China, India, Singapore, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan – range from bachelor degree holders to postdoctoral students, in the fields of study and research that include agricultural science, environmental economics and green energy policy, business and economics, environmental science, civil and environmental engineering, conflict resolution, Middle Eastern studies, Holocaust history and education, and architecture and design. Please login or register to see the full article |
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China to help build Israel’s railway |
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A Memorandum Of Understanding is soon to be signed between China and Israel, after a visit to Beijing by Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz. He met with his Chinese counterpart to discuss the project. The Chinese government is expected to help build an extension of railway from Nahal Tzin to the southern city of Eilat. The 180-kilometre (112 mile) route is expected to expand tourism to the Red Sea resort town. Other transportation projects are also on the drawing board to be developed with the assistance of China. Please login or register to see the full article |
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Israel’s Major General Eisenberg visits Japan |
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Home Front Command chief Major General Eyal Eisenberg joined Minister for Home Front Protection, Matan Vilnai on a visit to Japan in October.  Primarily, the visit was meant to improve cooperation during disasters between the two countries in terms of search and rescue, in the wake of the earthquake that devastated Japan in March.
Other representatives from the Ministry for Home Front Protection joined as well. As part of the visit, the Israeli delegation met with Japanese officials and toured the disaster site near Fukoshima. Vilnai, was invited as a guest of Minister for Disaster Management, Tatuso Hirano. It was the first visit by an Israeli minister to Japan since the earthquake and subsequent tsunami. Please login or register to see the full article |
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