O'Neill Ave
Christchurch 8051
New Zealand
Thursday 21 JAN 2016 @7.30PM
Stuart Palmer
Northwood Villa clubrooms
O’Neill Ave
Northwood
Christchurch
2015 marks the first year that Jews from the Western World dominated Israeli Immigration statistics. Is this the beginning of a major change?
What drives a person to uproot themselves from a comfortable existence in Britain and make a new life in the unknown in Israel? What do they find? How well do they get on in Israel?
About the Speaker
Stuart Palmer is a retired Engineer who made aliya from the UK in 1981. He worked for some years as an International Marketing Manager in the North of Israel.
Since retiring, he has become the Director of ICAN (International Citizens Action Network) and is Chairman of CoHaV (Coalition of Hasbara Volunteers) www.cohav.org an umbrella organization of over 100 various advocacy groups around the world.
He is a Senior Fellow at the Center for International Communications at Bar Ilan University and a member of the advisory committee for the Haifa University program, “Ambassadors Online”. Stuart has appeared as a commentator on TV and lectures to visiting groups of tourists, army volunteer, officials and others in Israel and offshore.
He is with his wife on holiday in NZ and is the guest of NZ Friends of Israel (NZFOI).
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