Celebrate the Faces of Israel

A potential crowd gathered at the Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem on Thursday for the “Celebrate the Faces of Israel” convention, hosted by The Jerusalem Post Community and the Museum of Tolerance. The convention, which notorious the individuals who private constructed and reinforced Israel over the closing 75 years, along with its diversity and tolerance, featured interviews with leading politicians, diplomats, scientists and enterprise leaders. Jerusalem Post Editor-in-Chief Avi Mayer moderated the convention.

Politicians taking part in the convention incorporated President Isaac Herzog; Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion; Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis; US Ambassador to Israel Thomas Nides, former US ambassador to Israel David Friedman; and Ra’am MK Mansour Abbas.

The convention featured a series of panels on schooling, hi-tech, cybersecurity, diversity in enterprise, innovation in the periphery and metropolis management.

In his introductory remarks, Larry Mizel, co-founder and chair of the Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem, referred to the Museum as a “dream reach staunch,” and likened it to the broken-down tent of Abraham, which used to be inaugurate to the four winds, that welcomed all company, regardless, of flee, gender or religion. “The Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem,” acknowledged Mizel, “constitutes by its very nature a center wherein individuals will develop into familiar with the fundamental value of the Jewish individuals and particular person that will develop into a as much as date Abrahamic tent.”

Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean and founding father of the Simon Wiesenthal Heart in Los Angeles and its Museum of Tolerance, recalled the visit of the unhurried King Hussein of Jordan, along with Queen Noor and their formative years, to the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles in 1995.

At the time, the king acknowledged, “We discover ahead with self perception when the phrases ‘Arab-Israeli’ will no longer evoke pictures of strife and detest but at a time when future generations of Arabs and Jews will be pleased a existence of peace where the enemies of yesterday can develop into the ideal neighbors of as we verbalize and tomorrow, when warfare will get replaced by cooperation.”

Hier added that the yarn of humanity ought to peaceful in no device be taken from the crematoria, the loss of life camps or the carnage left by terrorist assaults. Rather, he acknowledged, “It could most likely presumably well peaceful be written in the fertile fields that feed the hungry, in the wonders of in sort medicine that remedy the sick; in the lecture rooms of our faculties and universities that assist defeat the plague of lack of understanding; in synagogues or mosques that nourish the soul and the halls of our legislatures that offer protection to the rights of free males and females folk.”